| Additional Protocol:
| A set of provisions additional to an existing safeguards agreement, which, if agreed, requires states to provide IAEA inspectors with greater levels of information and access.
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| AEOI: | Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran
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| AP: | see Additional Protocol.
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| AUC: | Ammonium Uranyl Carbonate
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| AVLIS: | Atomic Vapour Laser Isotope Separation
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| BNPP-1: | Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant 1
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| BTWC: | Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
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| Code 3.1: | Part of the Subsidiary Arrangements of the CSA. The amended version, which Iran accepted in 2004 but then declared to be suspended in 2007, requires submission of information additional to that required by the original 1976 version.
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| Complementary Access: |
Access to relevant sites provided by a state to IAEA inspectors, in accordance with the provisions of an Additional Protocol
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| CRC: | Convention on the Rights of the Child
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| CSA: | Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, ie an agreement that applies safeguards on all nuclear material in all nuclear activities in a state (such as an agreement between the IAEA and a non-nuclear-weapon state party to the NPT)
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| CSL: | Comprehensive Separation Laboratory, at TNRC
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| CVL: | Copper Vapour Laser |
| CWC: | Chemical Weapons Convention
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| DIV: | Design Information Verification—an IAEA process of inspection to check whether actual facilities match up to appropriate previously declared designs
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| E3: | France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
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| E3/EU: | France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, with the support of the High Representative of the European Union
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| E3+3: | France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, together with China, Russia and the United States, and with the support of the High Representative of the European Union
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| ENTC: | Esfahan Nuclear Technology Centre
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| EU: | The European Union |
| Euratom: | The European Atomic Energy Community
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| FAC: | The House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs
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| FEP: | Fuel Enrichment Plant, at Natanz
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| FFL: | Fuel Fabrication Laboratory, at ENTC
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| FMP: | Fuel Manufacturing Plant, at ENTC
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| G8: | Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States
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| Green Salt: | Uranium Tetrafluoride, also known as UF4
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| HWPP: | Heavy Water Production Plant, at Arak
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| HWRR: | Heavy Water Research Reactor, also known as IR-40, at Arak
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| IAEA: | International Atomic Energy Agency
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| ICCPR: | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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| IR-40: | The 40MW Iran Nuclear Research Reactor, at Arak
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| IRGC: | The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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| JHL: | Jabr ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories, at TNRC
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| LSL: | Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, at TNRC
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| Majles: | The Iranian Parliament
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| MIX Facility: | Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility, at TNRC
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| MLIS: | Molecular Laser Isotope Separation
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| NCRI: | National Council of Resistance of Iran—an Iranian opposition organisation
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| NPT: | The Non-Proliferation Treaty, or more properly, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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| Paris Agreement: | between Iran and E3/EU on 15 November 2004 (see Annex III)
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| PFEP: | Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant, at Natanz
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| PHRC: | Physics Research Centre, formerly at Lavizan-Shian
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| TCA: | Trade and Cooperation Agreement
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| Tehran Declaration: | Joint statement by E3 Foreign Ministers on 21 October 2003 (see Annex II)
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| TNRC: | Tehran Nuclear Research Centre
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| TRR: | Tehran Research Reactor, at TNRC
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| UCF: | Uranium Conversion Facility, at ENTC
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| UF4: | Uranium Tetrafluoride, sometimes known as Green Salt
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| UF6: | Uranium Hexafluoride
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| UN: | The United Nations |
| UNSC: | The United Nations Security Council
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| UNSCR: | United Nations Security Council Resolution
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| UO2: | Uranium Dioxide |
| UOC: | Uranium Ore Concentrate, sometimes known as Yellowcake
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| WMD: | Weapons of Mass Destruction, usually referring to Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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| WTO: | World Trade Organisation
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| Yellowcake: | Uranium Ore Concentrate
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