Recent activities in the field of reactor physics

As the basis and fundamentals of nuclear technology, reactor physics has an important role to play; recent requirements for reliability and accountability to realize a higher level of safety have been encouraging researchers and engineers to study and develop more advanced and sophisticated numerical methods and calculation codes. Many of the outstanding research and developments are presented in scientific journals, including the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. Some topics have been covered in this summary from the latest activities in the field of reactor physics.