Abstract
On February 27 to 1 March 2001 the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute hosted an International Symposium on Advanced Utilization of Research Reactors, at their site in Kumatori near Osaka. Kumatori is famous in Japan for its onions, and is only three train stops from the new Kansai-OsakaInternational Airport. The Kyoto University Reactor, which participants toured, first went critical in 1964 and is presently running at 5 MW, with an unperturbed thermal neutron flux of 3.2 × 1013 n cm−2 s−2. The 58 participants came from a number of countries in the Asia-Oceania region, aswell as Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, the USA and the IAEA. In addition to talks by KURRI staff, we also heard from Fumio Sakurai(JAERI, Japan), Abarrull Ikram Bharoto (NNEA, Indonesia), Somporn Chongkum (OAEP, Thailand), Yuhao Huang (INER, Taiwan), Chang-Oong Choi (KAERI, Korea), Cheng Gou (CIAE, China), Andrzej Czachor (IAE, Poland), and Robert Robinson(ANSTO, Australia) about their respective facilities and future projects. There were also detailed discussions on a variety of instrumentation issues and cold neutron sources. In addition to the present cold sources in Japanese reactors, new ones will be installed in the existing reactors in Korea and Taiwan, while the new reactors in China and Australia will bebuilt with cold sources from the outset. The participants all enjoyed the gracious Japanese hospitality, including a delightful reception and banquet with sashimi, sushi, Japanese beer and other delicacies.
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