An overview of the NMTW'96 Dubna Workshop

An international workshop titled 'Nuclear Methods for Transmutation of Nuclear Waste: Problems, Perspectives, Cooperative Research' was held at the Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research, Dubna May 29-31, 1996. The workshop was intended to identify, evaluate, assess and make recommendations concerning the most promising collaborative research projects between Russia and other countries involving the transmutation of actinides and fission products. About 40 contributions were presented and discussed. Two discussions were held, one on current problems in computer modelling, data base accumulation and experimental work, the other on future perspectives and cooperative research possibilities in the above areas and in accelerator, target and blanket design for ADTT demonstration experiments and prototype development. The emphasis in these discussions was on identification of cooperative projects which could be cost effectively done using facilities of nuclear research institutions in Russia and Eastern European countries