National Institute for Materials Science;
Tsukuba;
Ibaraki 305-0047;
Japan Materials Risk Information Platform is being developed under the cooperation of companies and academic societies with NIMS as project core. To combine safety and economy;
which are sometimes contrary to each other;
it is important to find an optimal solution using a new concept: risk based engineering. A 5-year project;
the Materials Risk Information Platform;
was started in 2001 in NIMS on the boilers of thermal power plants and the objectives of this project;
research areas and its present state were outlined.;