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• From one-quarter to two-thirds of the market in the US, France, and Japan show a strong preference for domestic farmed salmon. • From one-fifth to two-thirds of these markets prefers imported salmon from Norway. • Domestic preference extends to land-based production, especially in Japan. • Consumers infer multitudes of qualities from origin, including product's sustainability and healthiness. • It is important to provide consumers with reliable origin information for farmed seafood that also covers land-based production. Technological advancements that enable countries to produce farmed seafood domestically, including land-based production, could potentially improve sustainability measures. However, whether consumers prefer domestic farmed seafood to imported seafood is unclear. This paper aims to fill this gap by employing hypothetical choice experiments from the US, France, and Japan. We find that, in each country, there is a sizable consumer segment (varying from one-quarter to two-thirds of the market) with a strong preference for domestic farmed salmon, including those from land-based production. These consumers associate domestic origin with higher qualities in all relevant dimensions and are willing to pay a price premium. There is also a segment of consumers with a strong preference for imported Norwegian salmon (from one-fifth to two-thirds of the market), linking Norwegian origin to higher qualities, and willing to pay higher prices. Consumers' attitudes towards the environment and food, usage of label information, age, income, and consumption frequencies, are among the characteristics that explain consumer heterogeneity. Our results show the market potential for domestic farmed seafood, thus, providing consumers with reliable origin information for farmed seafood that also covers land-based production would be important. At the same time, the existence of a segment with a preference for imported seafood implies that active trade will remain, indicating the importance of continued international corporation for a holistic and transparent policy framework and common standards for a sustainable aquatic food system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Launched in 2014, Japan-France collaboration on the ASTRID (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) project is active both in reactor design and in R&D fields. CEA, Framatome, JAEA, MHI and MFBR are in charge of this collaboration. In the design field, Japan-France evaluates core assemblies with interferences on seismic events. The objectives of this collaboration are to determine the core assembly lattice displacements under seismic load in order to demonstrate the safe behavior of the core regarding control rod insertion, structural integrity, and reactivity variation, etc. From this point of view, the object of this study is to verify the seismic evaluation method on core assemblies between Japan and France by comparing the results. Using their evaluation method applied to common the ASTRID core input data, Japan and France will calculate a collision load, a horizontal displacement, and a vertical displacement for core assemblies. As the first step of this work, the comparison of each evaluation (modelling and calculation results) is carried out considering the horizontal seismic excitation and without including the vertical component. The analysis of this benchmark calculation shows a satisfactory agreement between the Japanese and French tools and the figures show a good behavior of the core in horizontal direction under French seismic condition. This paper describes the summary of horizontal seismic analysis comparison and the future analysis plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]