Workshop Session II report: R and D needs of IGORR members

On the first day of this meeting a variety of reports has been given on projects covering the range from major upgrades of existing research reactors or experimental installations up to totally new research reactor facilities. From these project descriptions it was clear that a strong need of all these groups for R and D research and development) work had to be anticipated. So the purpose of the present workshop was - on the one hand - to identify those fields in which the results of R and D work would be required by IGORR member groups. On the other hand - there is an appreciable amount of R and D work either being planned for the near future or being performed right now (or having just been completed) by IGORR member groups. So the purpose of this workshop was to identity those fields in which R and D work actually is or will be (or has been) performed by IGORR members. Topics of interest were: Thermal-hydraulic tests and correlations, Corrosion tests and analytical models , Multidimensional kinetic analysis for small cores, Fuel plates fabrication, Fuel plates stability, Fuel irradiation, Burnable poison irradiation, Structural materials irradiation, Neutron guides irradiation, Cold Source materials irradiation, Cold Source LN2 test, Source LH2-H2O reaction (H or D), Instrumentation upgrading and digital control system, Man-machine interface