noun
Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation; PNC
Abbreviation of 動力炉・核燃料開発事業団. A former Japanese government agency (1967–1998) responsible for advanced nuclear reactor and fuel cycle development. Now succeeded by JAEA.
動燃は1998年に解散し、その業務は日本原子力研究開発機構に引き継がれた。
The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation was dissolved in 1998, and its operations were taken over by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
The successor organization to 動燃, established in 2005, often referred to as JAEA.
Abbreviation formed from the first characters of 動力炉 (どうりょくろ, power reactor) and 核燃料 (かくねんりょう, nuclear fuel).