Contribution to education and research using a 1 W reactor at Kindai University

The Kindai University Reactor, UTR-KINKI, is a research reactor with a rated thermal power of 1 W. The reactor is designed especially for education and training at universities and has been utilized for the education and training of nuclear engineering students in Japan since its first criticality in 1961. It is also used to educate the general public about nuclear science and technology, such as in training workshops for science teachers and high school students. Recently, it has been used to train nuclear engineers from overseas. Under the framework of allowing researchers from all over Japan to use the reactor, researches are conducted such as detector testing, reactor physics experiments, biological irradiations, and so on.