[en] Research reactors are wonderful tools that have always preceded and supported the development of nuclear-generated electricity by diversifying and specialising. They have also proven useful in many fields of application in fundamental research, in industry and in radioactive isotope production for medicine, currently essential to health needs. The research reactor environment is dynamic and adaptable. It has cause to believe in its future with of course on the one hand, scheduled and controlled closure of plants, and on the other hand projects and new undertakings. There are major development prospect with the arrival of many emerging countries wishing to have access to civilian nuclear energy in the medium term, and with initiatives underway for developing the reactors of the future (GEN.IV, INPRO, etc.), as well as the need for medical applications. It is also an international community of expertise called on, more and more frequently, to communicate and work together, in the framework of a global economy. It is invited to use the entire range of these research reactors as effectively as possible, from the smallest and most easily available, particularly appropriate for training and simple experiments, to the most high performance ones, which are more complex to implement but which enable instrumented analytical experiments to be conducted as well as experiments in incidental and accidental situations. This report gives an exhaustive view of activities and opportunities for collaboration of all the research reactors available in France. Content: 1 - Editorial; 2 - Highlights in 2008; 3 - Neutron beam reactors (Orphee, HFR); 4 - Technological irradiation reactors (Osiris, Phenix); 5 - Teaching reactors (Isis, Azur); 6 - Reactors for safety research purposes (Cabri, Phebus); 7 - Reactors for neutronic studies (Caliban, Prospero, Silene, Eole, Minerve, Masurca); 8 - New research reactors (JHR, RES)