Brief report on the research by JAEA postdoctoral fellows for 2006

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) (Old Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute) commenced a JAEA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in 1997 in order to raise capable researchers by providing an appropriate research environment to young postdoctoral researchers, which means that fiscal year 2006 was the 10th year of the program. The purpose of this program is to provide young researchers full of originality with opportunities to perform research independently on themes related to leading research, and basic and fundamental research of JAEA, selected by the researchers themselves and approved by JAEA, for a period of two or three years and also to promote the efficiency of JAEA's research. This report includes a summary of the results of the research on fourteen themes performed by JAEA Postdoctoral Fellows in the fiscal year 2006. Of these, research into nine themes ended in 2006. (author)