High temperature engineering research facilities and experiments. Proceedings of an OECD/NEA Workshop held in Petten, Netherlands, 12-14 November 1997

At the workshop on the title subject a number of innovative HTGR related research programmes and experiments has been discussed. Fifteen papers were presented in four sessions: four papers in the first session Safety Research, four papers in the session Nuclear Fuel and Carbon Material Research, three papers in session 3 on Irradiation Research by HTTR and four papers in the last session on Other HTGR Research. A panel discussion was held at the end of the workshop. Topics for possible international co-operation on high temperature engineering research were identified and recommended to the NEA Nuclear Science Committee. The workshop was attended by 44 participants from eight countries all over the world. Representatives from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Commission also attended this workshop. In conjunction with the NEA workshop, the IAEA organised a Technical Committee Meeting (TCM) on High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Applications and Future Prospects, from 10-12 of November 1997. For most of the papers in this report separate abstracts have been prepared. The proceedings of this TCM have also been published by ECN as report ECN-R--98-004 for which a separate abstract has been prepared