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Nuclear System Design Engineering Laboratory
Associate Professor / TAKEZAWA Hiroki
- Sustainable society based on energy mix strategy.
- Nuclear batteries for utilizing and reducing nuclear waste.
- Decomissioning of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.
Associate Professor / TAKEZAWA Hiroki
Nuclear System Design Engineering Laboratory was launched on Jan. 1st, 2022 to explore innovative applications of nuclear energy with focus on small/micro modular reactors and nuclear batteries. Also, the laboratory has been contributing to an international research collaboration in the field of criticality safety and control for Fukushima Daiichi fuel debris removal.
Research Content
Lab's three missions:
(1)For contributing to the development of sustainable society based on energy mix strategy,
we have been studying the feasibility of small/micro modular nuclear energy systems that are multipurpose and work togehter with renewable energy technologies by load following and/or cogeneration.
(2)For contributing to the reduction of nuclear waste, we have been developing nuclear batteries for powering infrastructures located underground, deep sea, or far remote areas. (3)For contributing to the decomissioning of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, we have been developing a criticality impact analysis code in an international collaboration to be utilized for preparing safety measures for fuel debris removal workers.
(1)For contributing to the development of sustainable society based on energy mix strategy,
we have been studying the feasibility of small/micro modular nuclear energy systems that are multipurpose and work togehter with renewable energy technologies by load following and/or cogeneration.
(2)For contributing to the reduction of nuclear waste, we have been developing nuclear batteries for powering infrastructures located underground, deep sea, or far remote areas. (3)For contributing to the decomissioning of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, we have been developing a criticality impact analysis code in an international collaboration to be utilized for preparing safety measures for fuel debris removal workers.
From modeling of nuclear reactors to a load following performance calculation.
A Day in the Lab
Performance analyses of small nuclear energy systems and nuclear batteries, and criticality impact analyses of fuel debris are available by coupling criticality, kinetic, burnup, radiation-transport, thermal-hydrauric calculations. These calculations are available by using codes and programs which are developed by national/international institutes or our laboratory and run on cluster servers. We are also interested in developing advanced parallel computation methodologies using massive GPU cores and high performance computation technologies. In addition to these numerical studies, experimental research on nuclear batteries will be initiated in NagaokaTech's Radioisotope Center together with national/international collaborators.
Laboratory's main cluster server.
Thesis Subjects
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The number of
PhD Graduates
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Major employers of Graduates
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