6. Activities of the radiation shielding information center and a report on codes

There has been a strong collaboration between RSIC and the radiation transport community in Japan. From the early days, RSIC has been involved with high energy radiation transport, and over years, it has had interaction with many of the developers of high energy radiation transport computing technology and data libraries, and has been able to collect and disseminate this technology. The current status of this technology is reviewed, and the prospect for the new advancement is examined. RSIC is embedded in the Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In practice, RSIC is an information analysis center. RSIC has served several communities for their radiation transport needs, and its scope has broadened to include the radiation transport from nuclear weapons, radioisotopes, accelerators, fusion reactors, nuclear wastes, and both natural and man-made radiation in space. The placing of radiation transport literatures in the data base, the publication of reports and the holding of seminars and workshops are carried out. International collaboration and particularly that with Japan are reported. (K.I.)