Basic programs on safety research. From 1991 to 1995 fiscal year

The basic indications on safety research of the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) was made up on March, 1986, under a concept that the indications were summarized contents on the safety research to be carried out at JNC under trends around JNC, and constructed basic concepts on drafting and practice of budget requirement and safety research at every departments'. In the indications, it is described that 'the indications are objected for these two or three years, but will carry out their reviews at proper period by considering change of trends around Japan at coming every years, to revise them'. Therefore, as in a middle and long terms business program (August, 1987) of JNC review of the indications was required and environmental conditions has become more declare and concrete, the indications were reviewed to make up the basic programs on safety research, together with considering establishment of the safety research yearly program in the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan on September, 1990. The programs are constructed by two parts: '1. Basic indications of safety research', and 2. Programs of safety research'. And, both parts contain Advanced Thermal Reactor, fast breeder reactors, nuclear fuel facilities and so on, seismic resistance, probabilistic safety assessment, environmental radioactivity, and radioactive wastes disposal. (G.K.)