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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2013-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Telecommunications
  • Telephone Wires and Cables
  • Photoelectricity and Electron Optics
CONT

Fiber in the loop is a system implementing or upgrading portions of the PSTN [public switched telephone network] local loop with optical fiber technology from the telephone exchange of a telephone carrier to a remote serving area interface(SAI) located in a neighbourhood or to an optical network unit located at the customer premises(residential or business).

OBS

Depending on the end-point of the fibre link, it is classified as: FTTB (fibre to the building), FTTC (fibre to the curb), FTTH (fibre to the home), FTTP (fibre to the pedestal), FTTD (fibre to the desk.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications optiques
  • Câbles et fils téléphoniques
  • Photo-électricité et optique électronique
DEF

Mise en place d'un réseau d'accès utilisant une ou plusieurs fibres optiques [...]

OBS

desserte par fibre; DF : terme, sigle et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 9 août 2013.

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2005-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Nuclear Power Stations
  • Radiation Protection
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

Dose commitments to staff resulting from common NPP [nuclear power plant] services such as Unit zero, heavy water upgrading, or from activities in facilities directly related to the operation of the unit such as laundry, decontamination, fuelling, waste handling, are to be included in the "Total NPP Whole Body Dose".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Centrales nucléaires
  • Radioprotection
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Les doses engagées à l'égard du personnel attribuables aux services communs de la centrale (la tranche zéro ou la reconcentration d'eau lourde, par exemple) ou à des travaux dans des installations directement liées à l'exploitation de la tranche (nettoyage, décontamination, chargement du combustible et manipulation des déchets) doivent être incluses sous la rubrique «dose totale au corps entier à la centrale».

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2005-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Radiation Protection
  • Nuclear Power Stations
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

Dose commitments to staff resulting from common NPP [nuclear power plant] services such as Unit zero, heavy water upgrading, or from activities in facilities directly related to the operation of the unit such as laundry, decontamination, fuelling, waste handling, are to be included in the "Total NPP Whole Body Dose".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Radioprotection
  • Centrales nucléaires
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Les doses engagées à l'égard du personnel attribuables aux services communs de la centrale (la tranche zéro ou la reconcentration d'eau lourde, par exemple) ou à des travaux dans des installations directement liées à l'exploitation de la tranche (nettoyage, décontamination, chargement du combustible et manipulation des déchets) doivent être incluses sous la rubrique «dose totale au corps entier à la centrale».

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Industrial Operations
  • Oil Refining
CONT

Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited (GCOS). This company is presently operating a mining extraction and upgrading facility on Bituminous Sands Lease 86. ... In 1975 production rates have averaged 43,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil per day.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types d'exploitation industrielle
  • Raffinage du pétrole
CONT

Les développements du procédé TOSCO ont permis la réalisation d'une installation de 1000 t/j en 1965-67. [...] L'usine de traitement du schiste se trouve à Parachute Creek dans le Colorado. [...] Le procédé Tosco permet une récupération élevée et de grands débits pour des unités d'un encombrement relativement faible.

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Technology - Equipment
  • Oil Production
CONT

Major new innovations in upgrading include... the installation of a vacuum distillation unit(VDU) to remove volatile material from the bitumen before it enters the cokers, thus eliminating the cokers as a process bottleneck.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage (Technologie pétrolière)
  • Production pétrolière
CONT

Les principales innovations apportées aux procédés de valorisation comprennent [...] l'adjonction d'une unité de distillation sous vide pour séparer les constituants volatils du bitume en aval de l'unité de cokéfaction, évite que celle-ci ne devienne un goulot d'étranglement.

Spanish

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