Proposal of world network on material testing reactors

Takemoto, Noriyuki ; Izumo, Hironobu; Hori, Naohiko ; Ishitsuka, Etsuo   ; Ishihara, Masahiro 

Establishment of a world network is proposed to achieve efficient facility utilization and provide high quality irradiation data by role sharing of irradiation tests with materials testing reactors in the world. As for the first step, mutual understanding among materials testing reactors is thought to be necessary. From this point, an international symposium on materials testing reactors (ISMTR) was held to construct the world network from 2008 every year, and a common understanding of world network has begun to be shared. The ISMTR-5 will be held on USA in 2012, and the ISMTR-6 will be held on Argentine in 2013.