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Mar. 28, 2024 Success of Safety Demonstration Test in HTTR (High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor) ― Confirming the Inherent Safety Features of HTGR ―
Feb. 29, 2024 Conclusion of Cooperation Agreement between Japan Atomic Energy Agency and National Cancer Center for Research and Development of Radiopharmaceuticals
Feb. 16, 2024 Announcement of R&D Purpose Plutonium Utilization Plan at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency throughout Japanese Fiscal Year 2024
Nov. 1, 2023 Japan and U.S.-based TerraPower expand SFR development partnership to support carbon neutrality efforts
Sep. 7, 2023 Accelerating deployment of Japanese HTGR technologies in collaboration with the UK - NNL and JAEA sign MOC in the field of HTGR technologies and Collaboration Memorandum for UK HTGR Demonstration Reactor Programme -
Jul. 19, 2023 Demonstrating Japanese HTGR technologies in collaboration with the UK - Participation in the UK HTGR Demonstration Reactor Programme and Coated Particle Fuel Programme -
Mar. 31, 2023 Cooperation on Polish HTGR Research Reactor - Further Research Cooperation Contract for Completion of Basic Design Signed -
Feb. 17, 2023 Announcement of R&D Purpose Plutonium Utilization Plan at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency throughout Japanese Fiscal Year 2023
Nov. 22, 2022 Cooperation to the HTGR research reactor in Poland - Start of the R&D cooperation in the basic design of the HTGR research reactor in Poland -
Sep. 5, 2022 Demonstrating Japanese HTGR technologies in co-operation with the UK
Feb. 18, 2022 Announcement of R&D Purpose Plutonium Utilization Plan at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency throughout Japanese Fiscal Year 2022
Feb. 2, 2021 Participation in the World’s First Summit of National Laboratories on Integrated Energy Systems
Nov. 29, 2021 JAEA Designated as IAEA Collaborating Centre
Jul. 30, 2021 Restart of High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor
May 14, 2021 "Visualization" of radioactive contamination at the decommissioning site on a 3D map
Apr. 23, 2021 President KODAMA Toshio was awarded l’Ordre national du Mérite, Officier Classe Award
Apr. 12, 2021 Cooling methods using magnets to approach absolute zero
Mar. 5, 2021 "Power Spintronics", a little giant
Feb. 26, 2021 Dissemination of Plutonium Utilization Plan for Research and Development at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency throughout Japanese Fiscal Year 2021
Feb. 25, 2021 How much can the piping systems in nuclear reactors withstand a massive earthquake?
Feb. 19, 2021 Controlling surface reactions by mixing different metals
Feb. 10, 2021 Development of high-precision nuclear reaction calculation method that is the key to developing new neutron applications
Feb. 4, 2021 Waste pork bones turned into an adsorbent for toxic metals
Jan. 29, 2021 Creating radiation maps smarter with AI
Jan. 28, 2021 World's First Realization of High-Accuracy Pollutant Diffusion Simulation in Real Time
Jan. 22, 2021 Development of Highly-Performance and Easily Assembled Tent for Quickly Evacuation of Workers in case of Contamination
Jan. 20, 2021 Main Factors Determining Radiation Levels in Forests Elucidated By Simulations
Jan. 14, 2021 Development of Individual Dosimetry System for Targeted Alpha Therapy
Dec. 14, 2020 Development of Proton Beam Control Technology for Nuclear Transmutation Research
Dec. 4, 2020 What happens in a semiconductor as it becomes a magnet?
Nov. 27, 2020 Further Strengthening Cooperation with the UK Towards Commercialization of HTGR
Oct. 30, 2020 Eco-friendly carboxymethyl cellulose nanofiber hydrogels prepared via freeze crosslinking and their applications
Oct. 16, 2020 Towards Advancement and International Standardization of Japan’s High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Technologies
Sep. 15, 2020 A General-purpose Device Was Used to Successfully Displace Cracks in Underground Rock for the First Time in the World
Sep. 3, 2020 Reassessment of organ doses received by A-bomb survivors by precisely reproducing body dimensions of the Japanese in 1945
Sep. 1, 2020 Study of Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors, Reflecting the Achievements of the ASTRID Collaboration between Japan and France
Aug. 28, 2020 Toward Realization of Thermoelectric Power Generation Resilient to Irradiation
Aug. 25, 2020 Elucidation of the Strengthening Mechanism of Cast Iron using a High-Intensity Neutron Beam
Jul. 22, 2020 Development of Control Technology for High-Intensity Proton Beams at J-PARC
Jul. 21, 2020 Unusual 'Short-Range Order' in Conduction-Electron Spins Discovered at a Record Temperature
Jul. 15, 2020 Unraveling the Mystery of the Birth of the Universe with Neutrons
Jul. 10, 2020 Real-time Visualization of Large Scale and Time Varying Nuclear Reactor Simulations on Supercomputers
Jul. 1, 2020 To understand the damage of metal exposed by a high-intensity proton beam
Jun. 11, 2020 Quicker calculation of atmospheric dispersion of radioactive materials under various conditions
Jun. 3, 2020 Permission of changes to reactor installation of the HTTR (High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor) in conformity to the New Regulatory Requirements.
Apr. 23, 2020 Evaluation of radiation dose due to radioactive materials released into the environment in a nuclear emergency
Apr. 6, 2020 Clarification of the phenomenon of spontaneous micocracking of aluminum alloys
Mar. 27, 2020 Methane gas released from groundwater inhibits infiltration of the atmosphere
Mar. 27, 2020 Panoramic imaging of the distribution of radioactive substances in the environment
Mar. 26, 2020 Toward prediction of the radioactive material behavior in a nuclear reactor
Mar. 26, 2020 Enabling material analysis with neutron beams at manufacturing sites
Mar. 24, 2020 Capturing the earthquake responses of nuclear power plants
Jan. 30, 2020 Real-time Monitoring Technology of β-ray emitted radionuclide (90Sr-90Y) in Water Has Been Successfully Developed
Jan. 15, 2020 How Much Radioactive Cesium Was Discharged from Rivers to the Ocean?
Dec. 24, 2019 Elucidating the Cause of Changes in Radioactive Cesium Levels in Mountain Stream Fish
Nov. 15, 2019 Microfracture Network of Fluids due to Magma Makes Underground Water Pathway
Nov. 14, 2019 Power Saving for Computer Memories by Use of Aluminum
Oct. 18, 2019 A breakthrough to realize the nuclear transmutation for reducing radioactive wastes
Sep. 13, 2019 Development of high-performance fuel at the level of mass-productivity and practical application for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors
Aug. 30, 2019 A major improvement in reliability of basic data for nuclear transmutation
May 31, 2019 Launch of BWR Core Heat Transfer Experiments with use of High Pressure Thermal-Hydraulic Loop (HIDRA)
May 29, 2019 Topological Characterization of Magnetic Surface Waves
May 24, 2019 Multi-purpose Unmanned Surface Vehicle ("Marine Drone") Developed by Combining the Technologies from Hamadori Companies Can Undertake Measuring and Sampling at Sea
May 9, 2019 Rapid three-dimensional visualization of radiation distribution in the environment from the sky
Apr. 24, 2019 Successful Development of the "SELECT Process" to separate radioactive waste
Apr. 22, 2019 Cooling and Protecting Fast Reactors: Clarification of Complex Thermal Hydraulic Phenomena in Fast Reactor by a Sodium Experiment
Jan. 31, 2019 Follow-up Report on alarming of the air monitor for α-ray at the Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility.
Jan. 30, 2019 Report on alarming of the atmosphere monitor for α-particles at the Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility.( As a result of subsequent confirmation, all nine workers were free of skin contamination or internal exposure. (19:20) )
Feb. 14, 2018 Report on the contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility
Dec. 27, 2017 Report on the contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility
Sep. 29, 2017 Contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility of Oarai Research and Development Center
Jul. 21, 2017 Report on the contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (the second report)
Jun. 19, 2017 Report on the contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility
Jun. 19, 2017 President's statement on contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility in Oarai Research and Development Center
Jun. 15, 2017 Radioactive contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (PFRF) in Oarai Research and Development Center (Follow-up 4)
Jun. 13, 2017 Radioactive contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (PFRF) in Oarai Research and Development Center (Follow-up 3)
Jun. 12, 2017 Radioactive contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (PFRF) in Oarai Research and Development Center (Follow-up 2)
Jun. 9, 2017 Radioactive contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (PFRF) in Oarai Research and Development Center (Follow-up)
Jun. 7, 2017 Radioactive contamination at JAEA's Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (PFRF) at Oarai Research and Development Center
Jun. 6, 2017 Designation of access restricted area due to body contamination of workers at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility (PFRF)
May 19, 2017 Launching cooperation with Poland and the United Kingdom concerning the High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) technologies - Toward international deployment and standardization of Japan's HTGR technologies -
Dec. 21, 2016 JAEA's policy in response to "Japanese Government's final decision on the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor Monju"
Jul. 31, 2015 Long-pulse control technique of neutral beam injector successfully developed
- 100 s beam injection from JT-60SA ion source is now promised -
Jul. 8, 2015 Multi-scale interactions in fusion plasma turbulence
- New discovery by using the supercomputer K -
Apr. 9, 2015 Unravelling Relativistic Effects in the Heaviest Actinide Element
The first-time measurement of the first ionization potential of lawrencium (element 103)
Mar. 27, 2015 English reports on the knowledge obtained by the efforts for the environmental restoration of Fukushima released
Feb. 26, 2015 Elucidation of the Structural Basis for Acceptor-Substrate Recognition of a Glucosyltransferase Involved in the Biosynthesis of Blue Flower Pigments
Jan. 8, 2015 Successful Development of a New Catalyst for Effic
Establishment of a method of manufacturing a new catalyst for collecting tritium required for nuclear fusion reactor fuel.
Dec. 22, 2014 Validation of the Long-Term Stability of a High-Speed Liquid Flow for Fusion Neutron Source
Validation of long-term stability of a high-speed liquid lithium flow for more than 1,300 hours exceeding the designated goal (1,000 hours) by the full-scale test in the EVEDA Lithium Test Loop (ELTL) with the world's highest lithium flow rate of liquid lithium for the fusion neutron source under the BA Activities.
Aug. 21, 2014 A two-frequency high-power long-pulse microwave source achieved
In the development of a microwave source gyrotron for a fusion reactor, an output power of 1000 kilowatts and the duration of 100 seconds have been achieved at two different frequencies using the same gyrotron for the first time in the world.
Jun. 23, 2014 Passing the Superconducting Conductor Baton -First Japanese CS conductors cross the Pacific Ocean to the United States-
Jan. 24, 2014 Stepping up to archive information of TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident -Enlarging upon dissemination of its information in cooperation with NDL, Japan and IAEA-
Nov. 25, 2013 Newly Developed Soft X-ray High Energy Resolution Grating Spectrometer Opens Up the Door of Routine Analysis of Li by Electron Microscopes
Jul. 22, 2013 Mechanism of insulation degradation in ceramic capacitors due to hydrogen impurities
Jun. 27, 2013 Ground deposition maps of Iodine 131 discharged from Fukushima Daiichi were produced using a newly developed method for analyzing airborne monitoring data - Joint study with JAEA and DOE/NNSA -
Aug. 9, 2012 Start of cooperation in safety research on high temperature gas-cooled reactor with Kazakhstan Nuclear Technology Safety Center (Announcement)
Jun. 26, 2012 Upgraded core design of a small-sized High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor suitable for application in emerging countries presented at the international conference in Kazakhstan
May 23, 2012 Spin-motive force due to a gyrating magnetic vortex [Kyoto University]
May 18, 2012 First observation of 239Pu NMR -A new frontier for the physics and chemistry of actinide compounds-
Apr. 17, 2012 Realization of high stability of a large spinmotive force signal
Apr. 11, 2012 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the superconducting state of UPt3
Mar. 30, 2012 Tailor-made graphene for spintronic and nanoelectronic applications -Growth of atomically and electronically uniform graphene by UHV-CVD-
Mar. 27, 2012 Development of a new laser system for plasma diagnostics with the world's highest performance -Highly accurate measurement of plasma temperature and density is achievable in ITER-
Mar. 1, 2012 Anomalous electrical resistivity associated with unconventional superconductivity in URu2Si2
Jan. 16, 2012 Request for Nomination for the next Director of J-PARC Center
Nov. 25, 2011 JT-60 researcher won the prize of 2011 Nuclear Fusion Award -Successful clarification of essential factor on fusion output-
Oct. 31, 2011 Development of A Free Software Named "Calculation System for Decontamination Effect (CDE)" to Support Planning of Decontamination for Recovery of Environment
Oct. 21, 2011 Observation of 'superfluorescence' in helium gas following excitation with extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser pulses
Oct. 20, 2011 Clarifying chemical bond in aluminum hydride using synchrotron radiation -Precept for improvement of hydrogen storage performance of aluminum hydride-
Sep. 15, 2011 Observation of anomalous magnetic fluctuations in heavy fermion superconductor -A large step to understand the mechanism of superconductivity mediated by magnetic fluctuations-
Aug. 22, 2011 Spin current generation by sound waves
Aug. 18, 2011 Successful labeling of 99mTc-MDP using 99mTc separated from 99Mo produced by accelerator neutrons
Aug. 3, 2011 Successful High-Volume Production of Ultrahigh-Performance Magnetic Cores at J-PARC: Toward higher intensity acceleration as a sign of resurrection from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011
Aug. 1, 2011 Development of a Superionic Conductor Exhibiting the Highest Known Lithium-Ion Conductivity -Shed Light on the Practical Application of All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries with High Safety-
Jul. 28, 2011 Microscopic Magnetization Process of Tb-Co Film by Magnetic Compton Scattering
Jul. 22, 2011 World's Highest-Performing Neutron Focusing Technology: A mirror that can intensify a neutron beam 50-fold
Jul. 5, 2011 A face-centered-cubic lattice is found to a metal framework suitable to contain a mass of hydrogen commonly for rare-earth metals
Jun. 27, 2011 Discovery of a new spin injection method available into all types of materials -The significant progress for development of next-generation energy-saving devices-
Jun. 17, 2011 Success in Mo recycle system for remote control from Mo generator materials for Mo-99 production by (n,γ) method
Jun. 15, 2011 Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance at the T2K Experiment
Jun. 15, 2011 Colossal negative thermal expansion in a Bi-based perovskite
Jun. 14, 2011 Identification of orbital state of excited electron by polarization-analyzed inelastic x-ray scattering
Jun. 13, 2011 Improvements to specialized valves that separate spin and electron currents -The significant progress for development of higher-density magnetic media-

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