Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering
| Name | Tohru Suzuki |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, 1992 |
| Doctoral Degree, Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, 1999 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Research Assistant, Kyoto University (1997-1999) |
| Post-Doctoral Fellow, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (1999-2002) | |
| Research Fellow, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (2002-2006) | |
| Group Leader, Reactor Safety Engineering Group, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (2006-2017) | |
| Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, Tokyo City University (2017- ) | |
| Specialized Field | Thermal hydraulics for conventional/advanced reactors |
| Safety evaluation for advanced reactors (FBR, ADS etc.) | |
| Sever-accident analysis for advanced reactors (FBR, ADS etc.) | |
| Basic Policy | Complementary approach for safety assessment incorporating both experimental study and computational simulation |
| Areas of Interests | Phenomenological investigation of multi-phase flows in disrupted core |
| Experimental study on thermal hydraulics for safety evaluation | |
| Computational simulation for disrupted-core behaviors |
| Name | Naoyuki Takaki |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Nuclear Propulsion Engineering, Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, 1987 |
| Master’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1989 | |
| Doctoral Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1992 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Tokyo Electric Power Company (1992-2008) |
| Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nulear Power Plant | |
| Advanced Reactor Group, Nuclear Power Research & Development Center | |
| Strategic Planning Group, Head Office | |
| Nuclear Reactor Safety Engineering Group, Head Office | |
| Attached from TEPCO to | |
| Japan Atomic Power Company (1999) | |
| Japan Nuclear Fuel Cycle Development Institute (1999-2004) | |
| Nuclear Material Control Center (2004-2006) | |
| Visiting Associate Professor, Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2004-2008) | |
| Associate Professor, Department of Energy, Tokai University (2008-2010) | |
| Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Tokai University (2010-2012) | |
| Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, Tokyo City University (2012- ) | |
| Specialized Field | Nuclear Reactor Physics & Design |
| Nuclear Transmutaion Applications | |
| Basic Policy | Pursue ideal and realistic nuclear energy system that meets technical and sociological requirements from diverse aspects of resource, environment, safety, nuclear non- proliferation and public acceptance. |
| Have a broad view on nuclear energy system including frontend to backend of the fuel cycle. | |
| Intend practically balanced studies by incorporating industrial sense of values into academia. | |
| Areas of Interests | 1) Advanced reactor concept |
| Fast breeder reactor | |
| CANDLE reactor / Travelling wave reactor / Breed and burn reactor | |
| Water cooled thorium breeder reactor | |
| High temperature gas cooled reactor | |
| 2) Nuclear transmutation | |
| Radioisotope production for medical use | |
| Nuclear Alchemy (Gold from Mercury) | |
| Transmutation of minor actinides (MA) | |
| Transmutation of long-lived fission products (LLFP) | |
| 3) Thorium fuel | |
| Molten salt reactor | |
| Sustainable water cooled thorium reactor based on LWR technology | |
| Core design for effective use of thorium in LWR, FBR and HTR | |
| 4) Accident tolerant fuel | |
| Core design of LWR using coated particle fuel | |
| 5) Studies related to Fukushima accident | |
| Criticality analysis of fuel debris | |
| Molten fuel removal technology without re-criticality | |
| Neutron absorber material design for debris removal | |
| 6) Cross cutting studies | |
| Strategic deployment scenario of advanced reactors and related nuclear facilities | |
| Cost analysis of nuclear energy system | |
| Proliferation resistant nuclear energy system | |
| Fuel loading pattern optimization using artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm | |
| etc. |
| Name | Jun Kawarabayashi |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1991 |
| Master’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1993 | |
| Doctoral Degree, QuantumEngineering and Systems Science, University of Tokyo, 1996 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Assistant Professor, Naogya University, 1996-2004 |
| Associate Professor, Nagoya University, 2004-2015 | |
| Professor, Tokyo City Univsersity, 2015- | |
| Specialized Field: | Radiation Detector Engineering |
| Application of Radiation Engineering | |
| Basic Policy | Quantum brings information of nanoscale world to our usual world |
| Areas of Interests | Radiation Imaging |
| Neutron Imaging | |
| Waveform Analysis for semiconductor detector | |
| Gamma Camera | |
| Backscattered X-ray Imaging |
| Name | Naoto Hagura |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Associate Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Musashi Institute of Technology, 2005 |
| Master’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Musashi Institute of Technology, 2007 | |
| Doctoral Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Musashi Institute of Technology, 2010 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Hitachi Ltd. (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.) (2010-2013) |
| Assistant, Atomic Enegy Research Laboratory, TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY(2013-2015) | |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY(2015-) | |
| Specialized Field | Accelerator Engineering |
| Ion Beam Analysis | |
| Evaluation of Nuclear Data | |
| Basic Policy | |
| Areas of Interests | 1) Accelerator Engineering |
| Electrostatic Accelerators | |
| Cold cathode PIG negative ion source | |
| Beam transport | |
| 2) Ion Beam Analysis | |
| PIXE (Particle Induced X-ray Analysis) | |
| RBS (Rutherford Backscattering) | |
| Proton Beam Irradiation | |
| 3) Evaluation of Nuclear Data | |
| FP Decay Heat | |
| MA Decay Heat |
| Name | Hitoshi Muta |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Associate Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Nucleus Engineering, Kyushu University, 1990 |
| Doctoral Degree, Course of Applied Marine Environmental Studies, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 2010 | |
| Business/」Professional Career |
TOSHIBA CORPORATION(1990-2007) |
| GAIA SYSTEM SOLUTION INC.(2007-2009) | |
| JAPAN NECULEAR ENERGY SAFETY ORGANIZATION(JNES)(2009-2013) | |
| Lecturer, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY(2013-2017) | |
| Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY(2017-) | |
| Specialized Field | Nuclear Safety Engineering |
| Probabilistic Risk Assessment | |
| Severe Accident Management | |
| Basic Policy | |
| Areas of Interests | 1) Nuclear Safety Engineering |
| Nuclear Safety Regulation | |
| Safety Enegineering for Nuclear Reactor and Facilities | |
| Safety Analysis | |
| 2) Probabilistic Risk Assessment | |
| External Natural Hazard PRA | |
| Internal Events PRA | |
| System Reliability Analysis | |
| Dynamic Event Analysis | |
| Interaction Model for Strucure, Componet, System, Human, Infrastrucure and Envaironmental | |
| 3) Severe Accident Management | |
| Accident Progression Analysis | |
| Accident Management | |
| Human Factor |
| Name | Haruaki Matsuura |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Associate Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, 1990 |
| Doctoral Degree, Electronic Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1997 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Assistant Professor, Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology(1994-2015) |
| Visiting researcher, Univesity of Abertay Dundee(1998-1999) | |
| le STUDIUM Associate researcher, CEMHTI, CNRS(2006-2008) | |
| Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, Tokyo City University(2015-) | |
| Specialized Field | Fuel cycle engineering |
| Pyroelectrochemistry | |
| Backend chemistry | |
| Basic Policy | Development of chemical decomissioning processes aided by synchrotron radiation and neutron source |
| Areas of Interests | 1) Treatment of fuel debris |
| Selectrive fluorination | |
| Molten salt electrolysis | |
| Thermoanalytical study | |
| 2) Liquid waste decontamination | |
| Ion chromatographic separation of minor actinides | |
| Ammonia distillation | |
| Selective adsorption into zeolite | |
| Precipitation and distillation of salt waste treatment | |
| 3) Nuclide migration | |
| Cesium penetration into concrete | |
| Structural analyses of various glasses | |
| Local structural analysis of fine alloys |
| Name | Isamu Sato |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Nucleus Engineering, Kyushu University, 1994 |
| Doctoral Degree, major in Nuclear Engineering, 1999 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Agency(1999-2015) |
| Specially Appointed Associate Professor , Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology(2015-2017) | |
| Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, Tokyo City University(2017-) | |
| Specialized Field | Nuclear fuel engineering |
| High temperature experimental research | |
| Irradiated fuel behavior | |
| Thermo chemistry | |
| Basic Policy | The behavior of fission products in irradiated fuel will be evaluated for the release during severe accidents, fuel design, those utilizations. |
| Areas of Interests | 1) Fission product direct utilization |
| synthesis of metallic fission product particles | |
| thermal analyses (TG-DTA, DSC etc.) | |
| metallography(SEM, EPMA, XRD etc.) | |
| 2) Cs penetration into structural materials | |
| Immersion of the materials into Cs containing solution | |
| Evaluation of diffusion and adsorption behavior | |
| CFD estimation of Cs penetration aspect | |
| 3) Development of reactor core devices to prevent the over power of fast reactors | |
| Evaluation of fundamental material properties of various alloys | |
| Design of the device using appropriate alloys |
| Name | Yasuki Ohori |
|---|---|
| Job Title | Professor |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1988 |
| Master’s Degree, Civil Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1990 | |
| Master of Bussiness Administration, Graduate school of Commerce, Waseda University, 2009 | |
| Business/ Professional Career |
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (1990-2017) |
| – Research Engineer (1990-1997) | |
| – Principal Researcher (1997-2006) | |
| – Senior Researcher (2006-2014) | |
| – Depty Director (2014-2017) | |
| Postdoctral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame (1998-1999) | |
| Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo (2006 -2008) | |
| Professor, Department of Nuclear Safety Engineering, Tokyo City University (2017-) | |
| Specialized Field: | Earthquake Engineering |
| Probabilistic Risk Assessment | |
| Risk Management | |
| Basic Policy | |
| Areas of Interests | External PRA |
| Risk Management | |
| Seismic Design of Nuclear Power Plant | |
| Stochastic Analysis | |
| Seismic Isolation |