Colophon

The cover is designed envisage a hopeful future shining in the sky with a blue color derived from the color of the JAEA logo. This is accompanied with white colored hexagons similar to the pattern in a tortoise shell symbolizing the wish of people for longer lives since ancient times in Japan. Coincidentally, this shape is the same as that of the core fuel assemblies both of the prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, "MONJU", and the High Temperature Test Reactor, "HTTR".

The two ellipses are bird's-eye views of "MONJU" (at Tsuruga Site) and the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, "J-PARC" (at Tokai Site, under construction), both of which are major facilities of JAEA. They are expected to make great scientific breakthroughs as well as technological innovations in the near future..