Annual Report 2007 - Institute of Safety Research

The Institute of Safety Research (ISR) is one of the six Research Institutes of Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (FZD e.V.), which is a member institution of the Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Leibniz Association). Together with the Institute of Radiochemistry, ISR implements the research programme „Safety and Environment“, which is one of the three scientific programmes of FZD. In the framework of this research programme, the institute is responsible for the programme areas “Plant and Reactor Safety” and “Thermal Fluid Dynamics”, respectively (see Table 1). By participating in the development and operation of a pulsed photo-neutron source at the radiation source ELBE (Electron linear accelerator for beams of high brilliance and low emittance), we also contribute to the project “Neutron Induced Processes”, which is part of the FZD programme dedicated to the structure of matter.