Economic Terms in Nuclear Power Industry

   The article investigates some particular features of economic terminology used in the nuclear power industry. The study has been motivated by the need to describe the terminology of nuclear power in connection with the urgent need for further standardization of this terminology, which is not only a most important development characteristic of this sphere, but also an important safety ensuring factor. The study is based on the material of the English language which is traditionally the language of international communication and the main source of borrowings, including terminological ones.

   The purpose of this work is to analyze the interaction of the nuclear energy term system and the economic term system.

   The authors focused on studying the structure of these term systems and made an attempt to outline their boundaries describe their relationship in terms of the field theory. The study makes use of such research methods as comparative analysis, linguistic statistical analysis and contextual analysis. The source material included international publications on the problems of the economy of nuclear power industry. The analysis of the material showed that the economic vocabulary used in the nuclear power industry does not form a separate terminological subsystem, or a separate semantic field, since such lexical units do not have the industry-specific characteristics. However the authors distinguish a group of terms that possess such features in the term systems of each individual language (Russian and English). It is concluded that there are unique economic terms used exclusively in the nuclear energy industry, as well as a number of terms that in the context of nuclear energy can acquire new shades of meaning and thus require specific translating equivalents other than those typically used in the field of economics. The formation of a unique term occurs as a result of the interaction the economy and nuclear power terminological systems, and that eventually may lead to the formation of the terminological semantic field of the nuclear industry economy due to the influence of further development of the economy of nuclear power in the context of international cooperation.

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