As part of a Japanese national project for developing the Na-cooled fast breeder reactor and an advanced thermal D
2O-moderated reactor, the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation, entrusted with the responsibility of carrying out this project, has recently established an engineering research establishment named "O-arai Engineering Center" at O-arai, lbaraki-ken, Japan.
An outline is given of this Engineering Center and the activities undertaken therein.
The Center aims at carrying out such activities as large scale engineering tests of components and systems to be actually used in the two types of reactors, of such nature as to be beyond the capability of individual industrial organizations of the country, but which are essential for ascertaining the performance of these components and systems, and to acquire the engineering data necessary for design, manufacturing and operation of the reactors.
The Center possesses the first Japanese experimental fast reactor "JOYO", Natechnology development facilities, D
2O-moderated reactor engineering facilities, postirradiation examination facilities, D
2O-moderated critical assembly, and other requisite equipment. Some of them are already operating, and others under construction or planned.
An account is given of those facilities and equipment.
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