Newsletter From AONSAThe Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association

Volume 3, No.1 (April, 2011)

Statement from President

By Professor
John W. WhiteDisaster and Recovery
On behalf of all of us in AONSA I express deep sorrowand condolences to Japanese colleagues and all inJapan on the consequences of the earthquake, tsunami,
and the nuclear incident at Fukushima. Coupled withthis sorrow is great admiration for the calm andpractical response of the nation to these tragedies. The
whole world has been moved by both. Particularly
admirable has been the behaviour of the Japanese firecrews and operators at Fukushima in working throughpotentially dangerous situations to produce a safe
outcome.

Index
Index & Statement from President …………….p.1

Equally excellent has been the response of colleagues
at J-PARC and JRR-3. We rejoice that the destruction
there has not been as great as feared. I thank our
Secretary Professor Sung-Min Choi for centrally
receiving and sending messages for our Japanesecolleagues.

Message from JSNS President…………………p.2
4th AONSA Neutron School in Japan Canceled..……………………p.2

As I write, our colleagues at J-PARC are without anoffice building but early inspection of the facility
shows little damage to the accelerators, instruments
and experiments supplied by them.

1st AOCNS …….………………………………p.3
Three Presidents from ENSA, NSSA, AONSAMet in Tokai, Japan……………………………p.4
Society Report:

KNBUA……………………p.5
JSNS……………………….p.6
ANBUG……………………p.7
TWNSS…………………….p.7

Facility Report:

J-PARC……………………p.9
JRR-3 ..……………………p.11

The above was written on 20 March to express our
feelings then. My admiration has grown, and now,
Japans’ and our neutron colleagues’ determination andgreat efforts to recover are clear. The impressive
scientific results from J-PARC already show theimportance of quick recovery by J-PARC and JRR-3
for the whole Asia-Oceania region. The recognition ofthis by the emergency funding offered by the Japanese
Government is highly appreciated. Offers of help forthe neutron school 2011 and experiment placements in
our region and internationally are being coordinated by
JSNS. AONSA wishes all the soonest success.

Report from AONSA Office…………………..p.13
Calendar ………………………………............p.14

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Gratitude for Kind Message and Offer of Support from JSNS President
We need short term and long term supports. The
former is for the accepted experiments in JPARC/MLF and JRR-3 for the first half year of 2011
(2011A) which cannot be performed in Japan, and thelatter is for the forthcoming proposals for experiments
until the restarts of J-PARC/MLF and JRR-3. As you
know, user programs at J-PARC/MLF and JRR-3 areorganized by J-PARC Center (KEK and JAEA),
Ibaraki-prefecture and RIFUP (CROSS), and ISSP, theUniversity of Tokyo and JAEA. For the short term
support, each responsible institute or facility will soon
contact you to discuss how we can proceed. For thelong term support, JSPS will deal with the proposals to
all the facilities to find an appropriate facility for each
proposal, and then the facilities will contact you.

Dear Colleagues of AONSA,
A very large (M9.0) earthquake and the subsequenttsunami hit Tohoku-Kanto area in Japan on March 11th,
2011. Presently, more than 28,000 people were died or
missing and the number is still increasing. Many towns
and cities on the east coast of Tohoku area werecompletely destroyed by the tsunami. The accident of
nuclear reactors in Fukushima is also a serious problem
and not yet settled down although enormous efforts of
the related people have been made.
J-PARC/MLF and JRR-3, which were one of the mostintense pulse neutron sources in the world and the 20
MW research nuclear reactors, respectively, were also
seriously damaged by the earthquake. The inspectionsof the damages are still undergoing because theelectricity in the facilities is still off. Most probably wecannot perform experiments in the J-PARC/MLF and
JRR-3, at least, in this year or longer (provisional
estimation). Japanese neutron scientists and students
were shocked with the damages. In such situation, we
have received many kind messages and offers to
support Japanese neutron scientists from ourcolleagues in outside of Japan including in AONSA
member countries. We are very much encouraged andwould very much appreciate your kind actions.
Japanese Society for Neutron Science (JSNS) has
discussed how we could accept the offers of supports.

We express our deepest gratitude to your support toJapanese neutron scientists.
With best wishes,

Toshiji Kanaya
President of the Japanese Society for Neutron Science

4th AONSA Neutron School in Japan Canceled

Considering these facts, I am sorry to announce that it
would be impossible to hold the school this year andwould like to propose to postpone 4th AONSA
Neutron School to next year or to hold a school inanother country. The final decision will be made at thenext AONSA EC Meeting on May 19-21, 2011,
Bandung, Indonesia. I look forward to seeing you in
Tokai in the near future.

As reported by TV and others, the Tohoku-Kanto(Northeast and Central) Area of Japan suffered acalamity by a large earthquake of M9.0 and following
giant tsunami on March 11, 2011. J-PARC and JRR-3
were not exceptions, and lifeline, buildings, roads, andfacilities were seriously damaged. J-PARC Center,
JAEA, and KEK are now investigating damages of the
facilities. It will take some time before announcing
estimated day of recovery by J-PARC/JRR-3.
Although we had planned to serve a chance to study atstate-of-the-art neutron instruments at J-PARC/MLF
and JRR-3 on the occasion of the 4th AONSA Neutron
School, we had to accept that it is impossible to realize
it. All staffs of J-PARC Center, JAEA, and KEK are
devoted to work on for repair.
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Mitsuhiro Shibayama,
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1st Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron Scattering (1st AOCNS)
just after the earthquake, and now they have toconcentrate on restoration work of their own instituteor facility. We will soon come back to the preparation
work of AOCNS, and inform you the revised
information of the conference through email and the
web site.

A very large (M9.0) earthquake and the subsequenttsunami hit Tohoku-Kanto area in Japan on March 11,
2011. Presently, more than 27,000 people were died or
missing and the number is still increasing. Many towns
and cities on the east coast of Tohoku area werecompletely destroyed by the tsunami. The accident of
nuclear reactors in Fukushima is also a serious problem
and not yet settled down although enormous efforts of
the related people have been made.

We would greatly appreciate your cooperation on the
1st AOCNS and hope that many colleagues will
participate in the conference.

J-PARC/MLF and JRR-3, which were one of the mostintense pulse neutron sources in the world and the 20
MW research nuclear reactors, respectively, were also
seriously damaged by the earthquake. The inspectionsof the damages are still undergoing because theelectricity in the facilities is not yet fully recovered.
Most probably we cannot perform experiments in the
J-PARC/MLF and JRR-3, at least, in this year or
longer. Japanese neutron scientists and students wereshocked with the damages. After the earthquake, wehave received kind messages and generous offers of
support from all over the world. We were very muchencouraged by them.

We look forward to seeing you in Tsukuba.
Toshiji Kanaya
Chair of the Organizing Committee
1st AOCNS

It has been decided and announced from Professor
Shibayama, Principal of 4th AONSA Neutron School,that the School was canceled due to the damages on JPARC/MLF and JRR-3. Nevertheless we will hold 1st
Asia-Oceania Conference on Neutron Scattering (1st
AOCNS) as scheduled (please see below and the poster
posted below) although we have to make minorchanges in the conference site and the J-PARC tour.
1st AOCNS will be held in Tsukuba, Japan, during theperiod of November 20th to November 24th, 2011. The
AOCNS will be organized by the Japanese Society for
Neutron Scattering (JSNS) and the Asia-Oceania
Neutron Scattering Association (AONSA). The
conference site is EPOCHAL TSUKUBA, Tsukuba
International Congress Center which is located in theheart of Tsukuba City. The members of Organizing
Committee, International Advisory Board, Scientific
Program Committee and the Local Organizing
Committee are shown in the poster and the web site(http://j-parc.jp/MatLife/en/meetings/1stAOCNS/index.html).

We are sorry that the preparation of AOCNS is delayed
and the web site is still closed due to the effects of theearthquake and tsunami. Many of the organizing andlocal organizing committee members are living in
Tohoku, Tokai and Tsukuba areas, and some of themlost lifelines such as electricity, water, and gas services
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Newsletter from AONSAThe ENSA-NSSA-AONSA Chairman-Presidents Met in JapanOn the evening of February 23, 2011, Prof. M. Steiner(Chairman of the European Neutron Scattering
Association; Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin), Prof. B.
Gaulin (President of the Neutron Scattering Society ofAmerica; McMaster Univ.) and Prof. J. White(President of AONSA; ANU) met face-to-face at Tokaiin Japan. Such a rare opportunity was realized byfinely tuning their itinerary independently scheduled
for a series of meetings in Japan. Also attended were
Dr. J. Tranquada (Treasurer of NSSA; BNL), Dr. M.
Arai (Former Secretary of AONSA; J-PARC), Prof. T.
Kanaya (President of the Japan Society for Neutron
Science; Kyoto Univ.), Dr. K, Kakurai (JAEA) andProf. Y. Fujii (Vice President of AONSA; CROSSTokai).

clash major activities such as Regional Conference
and Neutron School, (3) Post on each HP aboutschedule of call-for proposals of the relevant major
neutron facilities. Also discussed was a possible
mutual invitation of speakers from other two to
Regional
Conference
hostedbyone
of
Associations/Society (i.e. ECNS by ENSA, ACNS by
NSSA, AOCNS by AONSA). They also intensively
discussed a possible cooperation with internationalorganizations such as ICNS, IAEA, ICSU, IUPAP,
IUCr and Synchrotron Society.
They are very happy to have the next opportunity inthe future to strengthen their cooperation among the
tripolar Neutron Scattering Organizations, i.e. ENSA,NSSA and AONSA.

This informal meeting was opened with three
Chairman/Presidents’ introductory remarks on theirexperiences in operating Associations/Society for thelast few years. Their common headache is a lack offinances. Only AONSA charges annual fees ($2,000)
to member societies while other two Association andSociety have been supported mostly by major facilities
upon an occasion such as conference, workshop andschool. A very rough number of potential members is
estimated as 6,000 (ENSA), 2,000 (NSSA), and 1,500(AONSA) although the Association/Society areorganized not by individual members but by societies
representing users community in country/region.
They have agreed on the followings: (1) Linkage
among their home pages (Buttons for entry into ENSA
and NSSA already installed on the top page of
AONSA HP), (2) Exchange of their calendars not to[From left in the front row] B. Gaulin (NSSA President), J. White(AONSA President), M. Steiner (ENSA Chairman)[From left in the back row] M. Arai, J. Tranquada, Y. Fujii, T.
Kanaya and K. Kakurai in front of a poster of the 1st AOCNS.

Y. Fujii
Vice President of AONSAThe AONSA President (J. White) reporting the status of AONSA
on a map of the world with the Asia-Oceania Region in the center,
unfamiliar to European and American colleagues.

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Report from KNBUAThe 11th Japan-Korea Meetingon Neutron Science(For those who are curious, its official title alternates
between “Japan-Korea” and “Korea- Japan” byplacing friendly the invited ahead of the invitee.) It
is certainly one of many reasons why we sincerely
hope for Japan to recover quickly from the recent
unfortunate natural disaster.

In January at Korea University, we had an enjoyable
experience of hosting the annual meeting that brings
neutron scientists from Japan and Korea to one place.
The Japan-Korea Meeting on Neutron Science has
been held alternately between the two counties,
contributing greatly to the friendship andcollaborations between the two communities for thelast ten years. Now in its 11th, this year’s meeting washeld on Jan. 20-21, 2011, at the Science& Engineering
Campus of the Korea University located in thenorthern part of Seoul, Korea. The weather in Seoul
during the preceding week was chilling down to thespine, but to our relief the temperature began to rise as
Japanese participants started to arrive.

Neutron Scattering Winter School
at HANARO, 2010, - Crystal and Magnetic
Structure Analysis using Neutron Diffraction

On the first day, the meeting was officially opened
with the Opening Address by Prof. Ki-Bong Lee, theChairman of the Korean Neutron Beam Users
Association. The morning session of the day was filledwith seven facilities reports. This unusually highnumber is attributed to the recent operation of neutron
scattering facility at the J-PARC as well as thecompletion of the Cold Neutron Research Facility at
the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. Taking
advantage of the lunch break, the Business Meeting
was held between the representatives of the twoneutron scattering societies. One of the key agendas
discussed was the next meeting, which is going to beheld in or near Tsukuba, Japan, organized by Prof.
Hideki Seto of KEK. For the first time, it was decided
that the meeting will be skipped for one year for thesake of the 1st AOCNS Conference scheduled on Nov.
20-24, 2011, also in Tsukuba.

A workshop was held at INTEC building, KAERI,
Dec. 17-22 on the topics of crystal and magnetic
structure analysis using neutron diffraction with two
lecturers from abroad and the 36 participants ofgraduate students and junior researchers over thecountry.
Prof. Y. Noda, IMRAM/Tohoku University, gave aseries of lectures on single crystal diffraction and Dr.
A. Pirogov, IMP/Ekaterinburg, RAS delivered
lectures on neutron powder diffraction and its
analysis using the code, Fullprof. Both lecturers led
the students with practical problems during intensive
practice sessions every afternoon and evening up to
9 o’clock.
KNBUA kindly supported this workshop byproviding a brand new textbook on neutron
scattering to all the participants. In the intervening
Sunday, an excursion trip was organized to Kongju,
which boasts its charm as a historical city with 2
thousands year of history.

In the afternoon there was a poster session featuring
28 posters on various subjects, which is the highest
number presented. The first day was then wrapped upby three talks on instrumentations, followed by thebanquet. On the second day eleven talks were
presented, primarily on scientific results regarding
hard and soft condensed matter. It was notable that the
number of presentations was particularly high in thearea of inelastic neutron scattering when comparedwith past meetings.
After all, we had 70 registered participants in total,and even had one Chinese and one Malaysian visitingfrom Japanese institutions. The 12th Korea-Japan
Meeting on Neutron Science will be held in January of2013 in Tsukuba.
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Je-Geun Park
Secretary of KNBUA
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Report from JSNSFirst of all, JSNS would like to express our deepest
gratitude for many kind messages and offers of
support to Japanese neutron scientists received after
the big earthquake attacked Japan on March 11, 2011.

The JSNS Prize winner 2010 is Prof. Masakatsu
Misawa, who passed away in August 2010, just after
the selection committee’s final decision of the prize
winner. Prof. Misawa has started his neutron
research in the pulsed neutron facility in Tohoku
University and made a big contribution to theconstruction and development of KENS, the firstspallation pulsed neutron facility in Japan. Prof.
Fukunaga in Kyoto University presented Prof.
Misawa’s outstanding scientific contribution by“Development of structural study on liquid andamorphous materials, particularly on molecularliquids by pulsed neutron” at the special session of
the annual meeting in Sendai and all the participants
mourned him. Prof. Masatoshi Sato (Prof. emeritus
of Nagoya University) won the JSNS scientific Prizefor his pioneering work on “Neutron scattering andnew material science, particularly superconductors”.
Dr. Hiroshi Kira (J-PARC) got young scientist
award for his “Development of 3He polarized
neutron spin filter with on-beam spin-exchange
optical pumping system”. Technical award wasgiven to Dr. Yujiro Ikeda and Group of pulsed
neutron source in J-PARC for “Development of theintense pulsed neutron source in J-PARC”.
Furthermore, JSNS expressed the special thanks to
JRR-3 reactor division for the stable operation of
JRR-3 for 25 years.

Here, we report recent activities of JSNS.
Prof. Kanaya (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto
University) was elected as the President of theJapanese Society for Neutron Science (JSNS) last year.
Under his presidency the following members of new
secretary have started their activities from April 2011.
General affairs: Dr. Nakajima(JAEA), Treasurer: Prof.
Itoh (KEK), Editor-in-chief: Prof. Sakurai (Kyoto
Institute of Technology), Public relations: Prof. Tasaki(Kyoto University), Exchange affairs: Prof. Kimura(Tohoku University), Event affairs: Dr. Suzuki(NIMS).
The 10th Annual Meeting of JSNS was held in Sendai,
Tohoku University on 9 -11 Dec. 2010. The chairman,
Prof. Yukio Noda (Tohoku University) and theorganizing committee provided exciting opportunity topresent and exchange the latest results of neutron
studies from J-PARC/MLF, JRR-3 and many otherfacilities and universities. There were 2 plenary talks,
4 JSNS prize lectures, 11 invited talks, 8 contributed
talks, and 170 Posters. About 250 participants, close to
the half of the JSNS member joined the meeting andcelebrated the 10th anniversary in Sendai, a special city
for neutron science, where the first pulsed neutron
source was constructed in late 1960’s and also the 1st
JSNS meeting was held in 2000.

On the last day of the annual meeting of JSNS the 1st
open symposium on neutron science and application
for students and residents of Sendai was held at thesame place. Three invited speakers gave introductive
but interesting talks. Dr. Suzuki in J-PARC
explained fundamental properties of neutron andneutron science by using many cartoons and figures.
Prof. emeritus Suzuki of Tohoku University gave atalk titled “Neutron as a probe for the structure andfunctions of metallic materials” and explained roleof neutron for material research. Prof. Yamamoto in
Tsukuba University introduced recent development
on “Cancer Therapy by neutron irradiation”
The 11th Annual Meeting of JSNS in 2011 will be
combined with the first Asia Oceania Conference on
Neutron Scattering (AOCNS) in Tsukuba.
K. YamadaThe Immediate Past President of JSNSAt the special session of the 10th Annual Meeting in Sendai
on the future of research reactor in Japan

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Report from ANBUGANBUG Award for Career Achievements in Neutron
Science was presented to Prof Chris Howard(University of Newcastle). A new ANBUG Executive
was elected for 2011-12, with Prof Evan Gray electedvice-president and Dr Chris Ling becoming President.
The other committee members are Prof Brendan
Kennedy (past president), Dr James Hester, Dr
Annemieke Mulders, Dr Darren Goossens, Dr Duncan
McGillivray, Dr Clemens Ulrich and Dr Drew
Sheppard.

ANBUG recently changed its constitution to formally
include New Zealand as well as Australia, andpresently represents the interests of over 300 neutron
beam users from those two countries. Since the last
AONSA newsletter, the 9th AINSE-ANBUG Neutron
Scattering Symposium was held at Lucas Heights from
December 1-3 2010. This conference was chaired by
Dr Moeava Tahei (University of Wollongong) who did
an excellent job in bringing ~100 members together tohear talks across the full spectrum of neutron science,from structural biology to materials engineering.

Chris Ling
ANBUG

The ANBUG Award for Neutron Science waspresented to Dr Maxim Avdeev (ANSTO) and theReport from TWNSS
2nd Taiwan Neutron Scattering Conference(TWNSC)The 2nd Taiwan Neutron Scattering Conference(TWNSC) from January 17th to 19th, 2011 was run
successfully by TWNSS. There are total 161 attendees,
including 30 researchers, 15 postdoctoral fellows and116 students gathered at Dong-shi forest garden in thecentral mountain area of Taiwan to join this conference.
The activities were divided into several parts: four
general courses on the neutron-sourced analyticaltechniques, six specified speeches on neutron research
topics, two hand-on software running classes, and an
outdoor walking discussion. In the general courses onneutron scattering, one important progress this year isthe launch of seeded lecturers, who are postdoctoralscientists or PhD students. The basic while
complementary introduction to neutron scattering won
good feedbacks from newcomers of this conference. In
the invited specified speeches, diverse topics including
protein biochemistry, supramolecular chemistry,hydrogen-storage materials, magnetic structures andresidual stress measurement brought attendees fromdifferent fields of study together via exciting in- andafter- class Q & A. The practical hand-on courses after
dinner provided operation procedures and know-how
for students pursuing the use of IGOR and GNOM toanalyze the reflectivity and small-angle scattering data.

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Attendees of the conferences created further
interconnections or cooperating opportunities during
the refreshing morning walk in the forest. Since it wasestablished in 2009, the members of TWNSS havepropagated from 45 to 294 in two years, thanks to thecontribution from the excellent speakers and dedicating
students in each year’s conference. The percentage ofstudent members increased from 45% to 73% in thelast six months. This is encouraging for TWNSS,
aiming to bring up newer generation of neutronscientists. Through the conference held twice a year
and our website, TWNSS continues to offer useful,accessible platforms for our members in seek oftechnical advisory and joint projects in neutron science.

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The main focus of her research has been concernedwith the modification, characterization, properties andapplications of a broad range of carbohydrates andbiomaterials. Prof. Chou is a Full Professor of the
Department of Physics, NSYSU.
(http://phys2.nsysu.edu.tw/about-detail.php?id=7&sTeaType=1&Fid=5)

Hsiung Chou received his Ph.D. in Solid State
Progrom from the Columbia University in New Yorkin 1992. The main focus of his research has been
concerned with the Spintronics in Diluted Magnetic
Oxides and Multiferroics. He had been assigned to be
the Chair of Department of Physics and the Head ofCareer Development Division.

President and Vice President of TWNSS
during 2011-2012
Prof. Hsi-Mei Lai of National Taiwan University andProf. Hsiung Chou of National Sun Yat-Sen University
were elected as a new president and Vice President of
Taiwan Neutron Scattering Society (TWNSS) during
2011-2012, respectively. Prof. Lai succeeded to Prof.
Wen-Hsien Li who is a former president of TWNSS
and a current Treasurer of AONSA. Prof. Lai is a Full
Professor of the Agricultural Chemistry Department,
NTU.

Prof. Hsi-Mei Lai
President, Taiwan Neutron Science Society
Professor, Department of Agricultural Chemistry,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan(http://lab.ac.ntu.edu.tw/cereal/default_Eng.htm)

She has been assigned to be the director of Student
Assistance Division of NTU since 2011. Hsi-Mei Lai
received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Food Science andHuman Nutrition from the University of Illinois at

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Facility Report from J-PARC
In return for the condolences
Thank you very much for your mails of expressing
sympathy and condolence for us on the devastating
earthquake and catastrophic Tsunami followed by thesevere reactor disaster. We have received many
warmest mails from friends in the world. Those mails
have encouraged us a lot. Here, we sincerely thank allof you for your support for us. Still heavy andunendurable effects from the disasters have not beenrelieved from a vast number of people in a very wide
area in Tohoku district, however, people are living andhave started working with a hope for the future.
When we were suffered from the earthquake, we werein the JAEA office in the middle of Tokyo for the MLF
facility advisory committee. Right after the incidence,
we could not contact our staffs in J-PARC in Tokai byany means for a while. Any lines, telephone, mobile
and internet, were cut down for about two hours.
Finally I could have a short communication with mycolleagues and was informed safety of all staffs, somedamages and subsidence of ground and facility
buildings. Because of cutting down of all traffics we
could not return to Tokai until two days after the quake.
It took time to be able to have an inspection in thefacility even after returning to Tokai, because of
shutdown of utilities and high radioactivity in the air
emitted from the reactor. However, about one week
after the quake, we conducted a meeting in myapartment with our staffs living in a walking distance,and orchestrated a systematic damage inspection of the
facility under a torch for the first time. In one month
we have made damage inspection and identify major
damage in J-PARC.

Water flooding in the Linac tunnel

Subsidence around the MLF building

Dropping of 10tons Steel Shield at the BL20

Subsidence around the Linac Building

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Newsletter from AONSAThe damages in the main building seem to be limited,
but, peripheral buildings and those equipments, such as
power station, have been seriously damaged. Most of
the beam lines in the MLF building did not show
serious damage, although some shielding needs
restoration and fixing. We will make a formal
announcement when we can restart the facility in May,
but I reckon that it may become in December orJanuary at the earliest.
(A tentative recovery plan is shown on the top pageof the Newsletter.)SNS, LANSCE, ISIS, ANSTO and other facilities haveoffered us special arrangements of beam time
dedicated for the MLF users. We sincerely appreciate
their kind offers and thank them for their international
friendship. Now we are processing to send the MLF
proposals to those facilities.

Subsidence of the floor
in the annex experimental hall

Although, we got tragic misfortune and the incidencecompelled us to stop going forward, but we found that
this doldrums are limited to a minimum and thefollowing recovering experiences will give us an extra
strength not only to the facility itself but also the staffs
spirits toward the future. This is all because of yoursupport and we sincerely thank you for it.
During the hard time in communication, Sung-Min
Choi took a role of the representative on our behalf andhelped us communicating with people outside. Here, I
genuinely gratitude for his devoting efforts for us.
M. Arai
Division Leader,
Materials and Life Science Division,
J-PARC Center, JAEA, Japan

Damaged 2.5tons Pb shield in BL04

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Newsletter from AONSASymposium on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversaryof the Refurbished Japanese Research Reactor JRR-3M

A symposium on the occasion of the 20th Anniversaryof the refurbished JRR-3M was held on February 28,
2011 in National Museum of Emerging Science andInnovation, Tokyo.

The symposium was opened by the welcome addressof H. Uetsuka, Director General of Nuclear Science
Research Institute, JAEA. After the report on the statusof the refurbished reactor by K. Yamashita (NSRI,
JAEA), the activation analysis activities, the progressin material science research based on the developmentof neutron scattering techniques, the National
Universities' users program and the industrial
application programs at the JRR-3M were presented by
M. Ebihara (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.), K. Kakurai(QuBS, JAEA), M. Shibayama (ISSP, Univ. Tokyo)
and M. Hayashi (Ibaraki Prefecture), respectively. All
the reports underlined the strong and ever increasing
scientific and industrial application activities at the
JRR-3M promoted by the specific programs introducedby the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology (MEXT). All these activities werevividly discussed among the participants in thefollowing poster session, where over one hundred
poster contributions were presented by the users of the
JRR-3M.

The Japanese Research Reactor JRR-3 was refurbishedin the years 1985 -1990 to become the present JRR-3M
with 20MW thermal power and the neutron flux of
3x1014 n/cm2/s at the core. In accord with the modern
research reactor concept it is equipped with irradiation
facilities for silicon doping, radioactive isotopes
production and activation analyses and neutron
scattering facility with a cold source and a guide hallwith two thermal and three cold neutron guides.
Especially the neutron scattering facility with over 30
instruments, being operated by Japan Atomic Energy
Agency (JAEA) and Institute for Solid State Physics(ISSP), University of Tokyo, representing the National
Universities' User Program, contributed tremendously
to the progress of neutron science in Japan since theJRR-3M became critical in 1991.
The symposium was organized jointly by Nuclear
Science Research Institute (NSRI) and Quantum Beam
Science Directorate (QuBS) of JAEA, to present thescientific activities around the JRR-3M to the broad
audience and discuss the future role of the JRR-3M inparticular and research reactor in general. Over 200
participants from academia, industries and ministries
attended the symposium (See Photo 1).

Two plenary talks opened the second part of thesymposium. M. Steiner, the Chairman of the European
Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) (See Photo 2),reported the present status of the European neutron
scattering activities, highlighting the role of the Institut
Laue Langevin as the high-flux central facility with its
users program, the role of the national medium-flux
facilities and the expectations towards the European
Spallation Source (ESS) being planned for the user
operation in 2019. The second plenary talk was given
by M. Takimoto, the Chief Executive Officer of Toyota
Central R&D Laboratories, Inc. (See Photo 3). Fromthe viewpoint of industrial application he illustrated theimportance of the neutrons analytical potential forindustrial materials design and development byshowing numerous examples where the JRR-3M
industrial application experiments performed by the
Toyota researchers highly contributed to develop novel
materials and concepts for the automobile related
productions. He stressed the importance of the national
promotion programs for the quantum beam sciencefacilities including the neutron science facility at JRR3M. T. Fujiyoshi, the Director of the Office forQuantum Radiation Research, Basic and GenericResearch Division, MEXT, then expressed his
expectation to the active role of JRR-3M in the

Photo 1 Over 200 people attended the symposium.

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quantum beam science and assured all possible
supports by MEXT.
At the end of the symposium a panel discussion washeld to discuss the present and future role of the JRR3M in particular and research reactors in general withthe upcoming accelerator based neutron source at JPARC. The importance of the reliable operation of the
JRR-3M and the modernization of the neutron sciencefacilities with active and open users' program wasunanimously reiterated. The symposium wasconcluded by H. Yokomizo, the Executive Director of
JAEA overseeing the NSRI, acknowledging all theparticipants of the symposium and assuring the JAEA's
continuous commitment to the JRR-3M as one of the
major facilities of neutron science in Japan.
Photo. 3 M. Takimoto, the Chief Executive Officer of Toyota
Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., stressing the importance ofthe neutrons analytical potential for industrial applications.

K. Kakurai
Director of Quantum Beam Science Directorate (Tokai),
JAEA

Photo 2 M. Steiner, the Chairman of the European Neutron
Scattering Association, discussing the past, present andfuture of neutron scattering in Europe.

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Report from AONSA Office

The AONSA Board Meeting was held near Narita
Airport in Japan on February 20, 2011. The meeting
was attended by President John White, Vice-President
Yasuhiko Fujii and Secretary Sung-Min Choi. It was
regretted that Treasurer Wen-Hsien Li had to cancel
his attendance of the meeting due to his illness. The
Board appreciated Past-President Mahn Won Kim andPast-Secretary Masatoshi Arai for their great
contribution as advisory members of the Board whoseterm was finished at the end of 2010. The Board
would like to have their continuing advices and help
even if their official term as advisors to the Board isover.

The AONSA office at J-PARC was temporarily shut
down due to the earthquake on March 11, 2011, andis now being recovered. It was great relief that noone in the AONSA office was injured during the big
earthquake. The AONSA website was also
temporarily shut down due to the same reason and is
now recovered. Recently, the AONSA website was
updated for various items including the president’s
message for the disaster and recovery in Japan, the
1st AOCNS and the call for proposals for the 2nd
AOCNS. It should be noted that the deadline forsubmission of the proposal is September 30, 2011.

The Board discussed various issues including the
preparation of the 6th EC meeting and facility
directors’ meeting in Indonesia, AONSA Prize, the 4th
AONSA Neutron School, the 1st AOCNS, President’s
visits to Singapore and Malaysia, possible
collaborations with IAEA and ICSU, and cooperation
with ENSA, NSSA and AOFSRR. The minutes of themeeting was circulated to all EC members andobservers on March 2, 2011 and will be posted on the
AONSA website.

Sung-Min Choi
Secretary of AONSA

Photo taken during the Board meeting

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Newsletter from AONSACalendar of AONSA Activities(as of 2011/4/26)

Year 2010
Date (M/D)
3/8-3/12
3/13
5/22
6–8
6/26-6/30
7/5-7/8
8/29-9/3
10/4-10/9
10/4
10/5
10/27-10/29
10/31
10/31-11/3
11/1-11/2
11/16

EventsInternational Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (Grindelwald, Switzerland)
AONSA Board Meeting (Tokyo, Japan)
The 4th AONSA EC Meeting (Singapore)
The virtual AONSA Board Meeting
American Conference on Neutron Scattering (Ottawa, Canada)
The 8th International Workshop on Polarized Neutrons in Condensed Matter
Investigations (Delft, Netherland)
The 26th European Crystallographic Meeting (Darmstadt, Germany)
The 3rd AONSA Neutron School (Mumbai, India)
AONSA Board Meeting (Mumbai, India)
The 5th AONSA EC Meeting (Mumbai, India)
IAEA Consultancy Meeting on Research Reactor Coalitions and Users’ Networks(Daejeon, Korea)
The AONSA Board Meeting (morning) and the informal AONSA EC Meeting(afternoon) (KAIST, Daejeon, Korea)
The 10th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (Busan, Korea)
HANARO International Symposium 2010, In Celebration of New Cold Neutron Facility(Daejeon, Korea)
AONSA Newsletter Vol.2 No.2 (Nov. 2010)

Year 2011
2/20
2/23
2/28
4/27
5/19-20
6/27-7/1
7/17-7/22
8/23-8/31
10/xx
11/13-11/19
11/20
11/20-11/24
11/22-11/25

AONSA Board Meeting (Narita, Japan)
The ENSA-NSSA-AONSA Chairman-Presidents’ Meeting (Tokai, Japan)
Deadline for nomination for the AONSA Prize 2011
AONSA Newsletter Vol.3 No.1 (Apr. 2011)
The 6th AONSA EC Meeting (Bandung, Indonesia)
ICNX 2011 (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
European Conference on Neutron Scattering (Prague, Czech)
XXII Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography(Madrid, Spain)
AONSA Newsletter Vol.3 No.2 (Oct. 2011)
The 4th AONSA Neutron School (Tokai, Japan) *canceled
The 7th AONSA EC Meeting (Tsukuba, Japan) *tentative
The 1st AOCNS (Tsukuba, Japan)
IAEA Technical Meeting (Tsukuba, Japan)

Year 201211/18-11/23
12/2-12/6

The 15th International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (Sydney, Australia)
The 12th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (Adelaide, Australia)

Year 2013
7/7-7/11

The 10th International Conference on Neutron Scattering (Edinburgh, UK)

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Newsletter from AONSAAONSA OfficeSecretary: Junko Akutsu

Neutron Science Section, Materials & Life Science Division,
J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, JAPAN
Phone: +81-29-284-3752
FAX: +81-29-284-3889
Email address: akutsu.junko@jaea.go.jp
For more information: http://www.aonsa.org