Dataset · MLC-0119 · [FULL TEXT]

Nuclear energy and radiation terminology

Name: Nuclear energy and radiation terminology
Creator: MLchart
License: https://mlchart.com/terms/

1Description

Nuclear energy and radiation terminology. 555 terms with definitions, abbreviations and references. Every term is published as its own page, A to Z.

2Schema

Table 1. Fields
Field	Type	Description	Example
id	string	Stable MLchart term identifier	MLC-T-NUC-000166
term	string	Headword as published	Exposure (radiation)
field	string	Field of the dataset	Nuclear energy and radiation
definition	string	Definition text; several definitions are numbered	Absorption of ionizing radiation or the amount of a hazardous...
abbreviation	string	Abbreviation or acronym	ASR
see_also	array	Related terms in the same field	Occupational Dose
references	array	Publications cited for the definition	NRC Glossary
url	string	Canonical page of the term	https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/exposure-radiation/

3Sample records

Sample record

{
  "id": "MLC-T-NUC-000166",
  "term": "Exposure (radiation)",
  "field": "Nuclear energy and radiation",
  "definition": "Absorption of ionizing radiation or the amount of a hazardous substance that has been ingested, inhaled, or in contact with the skin. Acute exposure occurs over a short period of time. Chronic exposure is exposure received over a long period of time, such as during a lifetime. See Occupational dose.",
  "see_also": [
    "Occupational Dose"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/exposure-radiation/"
}

4Browse

Table 2. Terms by initial
Initial	Terms	From	To
A	26	Access hatch	Axial crack
B	19	Background radiation	Byproduct material
C	61	Calibration	Curie
D	34	Daughter products	Drywell
E	28	Early site permit	Extremities
F	28	Fast fission	Fusion reaction
G	19	Gamma radiation	Gray
H	20	Half-life	Hot spot
I	27	Idealized surface crack	Isotopic enrichment
K	4	Kilo-	Kinetic energy
L	20	Latent cancer fatality	Low-level waste
M	22	Mass number	Monitoring of radiation
N	40	Nano-	Nuclide
O	9	Occupational Dose	Outage (scheduled)
P	41	Parent	Public Dose
Q	2	Quality factor	Quantum theory
R	55	Rad (radiation absorbed dose)	Rupture
S	46	Safe shutdown earthquake	Survey meter
T	22	Technical Specifications	Turbine generator
U	14	Ultraviolet	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
V	5	Vapor	Void coefficient of reactivity
W	10	Waste classification (classes of waste)	Wipe sample
X	1	X-rays	X-rays
Y	1	Yellowcake	Yellowcake
Z	1	Zirconium	Zirconium

Acronyms and abbreviations: 74 entries with expansions.

All terms

5Uses

Domain adaptation and fine-tuning of language models
Term extraction, entity recognition and entity linking
Glossary, thesaurus and ontology construction
Search query expansion and synonym mapping
Evaluation sets for definition and question answering tasks

6Citation

@misc{mlchart_terminology_nuclear_2026,
  title     = {Nuclear energy and radiation terminology},
  author    = {MLchart},
  publisher = {MLchart},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {2026.10},
  url       = {https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/}
}

MLchart. (2026). Nuclear energy and radiation terminology (Version 2026.10) [Data set]. https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/

7Access

The full Nuclear energy and radiation terminology dataset (MLC-0119), 555 records. Delivered as JSONL, CSV or Parquet under a commercial licence.

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