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The Roles of the Coordinators Meeting |
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The Roles of the Coordinators Meeting
are as follows: |
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Review
of projects in seven areas of cooperation, and three-year work plans of
them will be reported and discussed |
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Project Leaders of Japan will
report the progressive situation on the Utilization of Research Reactors,
the Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation for Agriculture, the
Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation for Medical Uses, the Public
Acceptance of Nuclear Energy, the Radioactive Waste Management, and
the Human Resources Development. Project Leader of Australia will report
on the Nuclear Safety Culture. |
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Host countries of last Workshops are requested to make
comments on the Workshop results. |
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Host countries of Workshops in the next fiscal year
will be requested to introduce their plans of the Workshops at this
Coordinators Meeting. |
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The Coordinator
of each country is requested to express his/her view on the result of seven
projects of the FNCA. |
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Comprehensive
adjustment among the seven projects will be discussed based on the project
review. Agreement of this discussion will be reflected in making or revising
the Discussion Paper for Strategy for the FNCA. |
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The Coordinator
of the country that hosts the coming FNCA will report what was agreed upon
at the Coordinators Meeting, that is, the Discussion Paper for Strategy
to the FNCA. |
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| Venues of the Coordinators
Meeting |
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The time and venue of the Coordinators
Meeting are, in principle, in March in Japan. |
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The First Coordinators Meeting
of
the Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA)
March 7 and 8, 2000, Tokyo |
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The First Coordinators Meeting
of the Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA) was held on March
7 and 8, 2000 in Tokyo |
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The First Coordinators Meeting
March 7 and 8, 2000, Tokyo |
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Representatives participated from
Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Thailand, and Vietnam as well as the IAEA as an observer. |
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This First Coordinators
Meeting was planned on the agreement of the Tenth International Conference
for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (10th ICNCA) held in March 1999 in Tokyo.
In that 10th ICNCA, nomination of one Coordinator and Project Leaders
of seven areas of projects in each country were agreed upon among the
above nine countries to operate cooperation activities more systematically.
That led to set up of a new scheme named " Forum for Nuclear Cooperation
in Asia (FNCA)" in Apri 1999. |
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Through two days discussion, the participants
agreed that |
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The cooperation
activities of past eleven years were extremely important for development
of basic infrastructure in nuclear fields of participating countries, and
it is worth stressing that the above cooperative projects of nuclear science
and technology have provided socioeconomic benefit to the region. |
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The
introduction of new scheme named the Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia
(FNCA) is effective and efficient in strengthening cooperation among the
nine participating countries. |
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Various
ways and modes of cooperation should be studied in order to enjoy the best
benefit from ongoing activities, and |
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Participating
countries recognized importance of establishing their domestic supporting
system to the FNCA activities. |
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The representative of Thailand
announced its willingness to hold the First FNCA under co-sponsorship
of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MOSTE) of Thailand
and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of Japan. |
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Technical aspects of cooperation
activities were discussed and reviewed to obtained the following conclusions: |
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In the
agricultural application, new varieties of plants, for example legumes and
industrially useful crops, were introduced with greater productivity under
pressing environmental conditions, and the database of mutation breeding
was constructed for effective use in the region |
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In the
research reactor utilization, development and adoption of improved analytical
procedures to track air pollution in major cities and to identify the major
sources were successfully implemented. Safe operation and maintenance methodology
were introduced for the stable and safe operation of research reactors in
the region. Training of staff in these areas were effectively promoted with
this project. Another effect was promotion of study of new material development. |
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In medical
application, coordinated trials for radiation therapy of cervical cancer
has been made and led to development of the first regional-base version
of treatment protocol in the world. The second joint study started on the
accelerated hyper-fractionated radiotherapy. |
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In the public
acceptance, necessity to share the common resources of experts in various
nuclear fields was recognized. The Home Page called AsiaNNet was opened
in October 1999 as a part of the FNCA network activities. Further, the FNCA
countries expressed desire to strengthen this network service for better
communication among the researchers. |
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In the
radioactive waste management, importance to establish the safety standards
as well as the domestic system to respond to the issues was recognized. |
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In the nuclear
safety culture, the region wide cooperation was recognized essential in
establishing safety base in each country, to start with non-power use of
nuclear energy. |
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The first
workshop on human resource development was held in Tokyo in 1999 based upon
the request of the FNCA countries. |
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Activities of the Office of the Coordinators
of Japan were introduced and the Office expressed willingness to be of
use for Coordinators of FNCA countries if they desire. The result of new
attempt to receive two fellows from FNCA countries was introduced that
this year fellows were received from Thailand and Korea. |
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The technical visits were planned and carried
out to the Institute of Radiation Breeding of the National Institute of
Agrobiological Resources, and to the High Energy Accelerator Research
Organizations (KEK). 21 |
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