1st Workshop on Advanced Neutron Sources and their applications 4-5 November, 2017 Aomori-city, Japan Saturday, 4 November 2017 (@IFERC site and Festival city Auga) 8:30 Departing from Nebuta museum “WA RASSE”nearby Hotel Route Inn Aomori Station 10:00 Arriving at the IFERC Site and tour to LIPAc 12:00 Departing the IFERC Site (Light meal will be provided at the site for lunch) 13:30 Arriving at Auga 14:00 Opening (A. Ibarra, S. O’hira) 14:15 Technical Session 1: Users’ perspective on neutron sources for materials development:T. Muroga (NIFS) 15:00 Technical Session 2-1: Presentations about the neutron sources developed or being developed Chair: Shigeru O’hira (QST) (30 +10 min x 4 presentations) – DONES: DEMO-Oriented Neutron Source: A. Ibarra (CIEMAT) – Advanced-Fusion Neutron Source: K. Ochiai (QST) –Multi-Aimed Intense Neutron Source (MAINS) based on BISOL: Y. Wang (Peking Univ.) – Neutron sources for transmutation of long-lived fission products: H. Okuno (Riken) 18:00 Adjourn Sunday, 5 November 2017 (@Link-Station Aomori) 9:30 Technical Session 2-2: Presentations about the neutron sources developed or being developed (30 min x 3 presentations + discussion). Chair: Juan Knaster (IFMIF/EVEDA) – Neutron sources for transmutation applications (including MYRRHA): D. Terentiev, (SCK-CEN) – D-T neutron sources (including HINEG, SORGENTINA, etc): Y. Wu (FDS) 11:30 Lunch 12:45 Technical Session 3: Panel Discussion on development of neutron sources. Chair: Angel Ibarra (CIEMAT); High/Low power neutron sources (4-5 items, 10-15 min. each + discussion) Accelerator-related issues. Promoter: Juan Knaster (IFMIF/EVEDA) – Comparison of a few schemes of RFQ-based compact neutron sources: S. Kurokawa (KEK) – High power linacs: J. Knaster (IFMIF/EVEDA) Target-related Promoter: K. Ochiai (QST) – Design and technical challenges of Li target for IFMIF-based neutron sources: D. Bernardi (ENEA) – Target challenge for High power compact accelerator based neutron source; as status of the iBNCT: the heat issue and blistering: T. Kurihara (KEK) – Present status of neutron target on J-parc Presentaer: T. Naoe (JAEA/J-parc) Irradiation area- related issues. Promoter: F. Arbeiter (KIT) (4-5 items, 10-15 min. each + discussion) Complementary Experiments at DONES: W. Królas, A. Ibarra, A. Maj, F. Arbeiter Comment on the middle flux module: T. Nishitani (NIFS) Tools and procedures for radiation damage modelling and intercomparison of experiments: F. Mota, C. J. Ortiz, R. Vila (CIEMAT) 16:30 Technical Session 4: Summary session Chair: K. Ochiai (QST) – From IFMIF users committee: IEA/W-GIFT history and proposal (15 min.): E. Diegele (EUROfusione) – Summary: J. Knaster (IFMIF/EVEDA) 17:30 Adjourn