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FACILITY USE PROGRAM in Takasaki Advanced
Radiation Research Institute
Y. Fukuta, M. Hoto and D. Nogami
Department of Advanced Radiation Technology, TARRI, JAEA
1. Introduction
The facilities of JAEA are widely opened to users from
universities, public institutes, and the industries, etc.
Taking over the former system, FACILITY USE
PROGRAM started in 2006, which is the system of facility
use for the user’s purpose on fee-charging basis. There are
3 open use facilities in Takasaki; Co-60 Gamma-ray
Irradiation Facilities, Electron Accelerator and TIARA
(Takasaki Ion Accelerators for Advanced Radiation
Application). In addition to them, some of the off-line
devices can be used.
We round up the Research Proposals every half year.
And the special committee examines carefully the
availability and the validity of the experimental plan. The
facility usage fee has revised from this fiscal year. The
details of the fee are the admission fee, the irradiation fee,
the expendables fee and the additional charge. In case of
Non-proprietary research, the users must report the
irradiation result to JAEA, which exempts them from the
irradiation fee. JAEA opens the reports to the public.
Universities can also apply through the facility use program
of the University of Tokyo. Such applications are accepted
as priority case. Table 1 shows the outline of the program.
Table 1 Classification of FACILITY USE PROGRAM.
Purpose Research and development
Classification
Result
General
Non-
proprietary
Referee Yes No
Priority
case
Proprietary
Except
R&D
Commercial
Charge* A B C
*A = the admission fee + the expendables fee,
B = the admission fee + the irradiation fee,
C = the admission fee + the irradiation fee + depreciation.
2. Use in FY2009
There were 18 Research Proposals in FY2009 at
Takasaki Institute, and 17 of them applied to
Non-proprietary use. Including the users from priority case,
we accepted 230 applications from 59 users. Table 2
shows that the percentage of the users from universities
exceeds the others except for Co-60 Facilities.
Figure 1 shows classification of all 230 applications.
On TIARA, Non-proprietary use occupies more than 50%,
while less than few percents for the other facilities.
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Table 2 User’s affiliation for each facility.
Facility
TIARA
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User
University
Public
institute
Others
Total
AVF cyclotron 7 1 4 12
3MV tandem accelerator 5 0 0 5
3MV single-ended accelerator 1 0 0 1
400kV ion implanter 3 1 0 4
Co-60 gamma-ray
irradiation facilities
5 0 17 22
Electron accelerator 4 1 10 15
Total 25 3 31 59
Fig. 1 Percentage of each classification. The percentage
above is based on the number of application.
3. Public Relations
The information like an outline of this system, guidelines
for applicants, format download etc. can be seen on JAEA
website as follows: http://sangaku.jaea.go.jp/3-facility/
01-intro/index-02.html.
In addition to this, we have the “Project for Promotion of
Shared Use of High Technology Research Institute”, which
is one of the subsidiary project of Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). This
project intends that commercial users promote shared use of
facilities, which develops the whole activity of science
technology from Basic Research to Innovation Creation.
An outline of this project can be seen on website as
follows: http://www.taka.jaea.go.jp/innovation/index.html.