Proceedings of the Nuclear Safety Research Center Progress 2010; Improvement of scientific rationality in nuclear safety; Tokyo, January 14, 2011

Task Group for Research Results Diffusion

The missions of the Nuclear Safety Research Center (NSRC) are to support the nuclear safety improvement by providing research results and proper recommendation, and to be responsible for correct information diffusion to the public as the specialists of nuclear safety. As a part of actions to achieve these tasks, the meeting, Nuclear Safety Research Center Progress 2010, was held in Tokyo on January 14th, 2011, in order to present the latest safety research results and to collect opinions from participants on the researches and activities in the NSRC. This meeting was first held after the establishment of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Four oral presentations and poster sessions were made by active researchers and extensive discussions were conducted lively by approximately 100 participants from government agencies, universities, research institutes, utilities, manufacturers and so on. This report summarizes the presentations in the meeting and the questionnaire results.