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- 21.9.7
- Announcement:Employment
- 21.9.1
- The deadline for the abstract submission of ITC30 has been extended to September 27, 2021
- 21.7.12
- EurekAlert:Developing the novel joint technique for copper alloy: This highly contributes to producing the efficient heat removal component for fusion reactor
- 21.6.24
- The online workshop "Science Talks" June 19, 2021, NIFS
- 21.6.22
- The 30th International Toki Conference on Plasma and Fusion Research November 16-19, 2021
- 21.6.21
- The LHD Research Forum will be held from July 13 to July 16, July 2021 on Zoom
- 21.6.15
- Announcement:Employment
- 21.4.22
- Research Updates:Making it possible to analyze light coming from the universe for approaching the origin of heavy ions: Computing atomic data of the highest precision
- 21.4.16
- Greetings from the Director General
- 21.4.6
- EurekAlert:Development of a broadband mid-infrared source for remote sensing
- 21.2.12
- Research Updates:Predicting behaviors of fast ions: Comparative research of hybrid simulation with experiments
- 21.1.19
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.12.16
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.12.1
- Research Updates:Generating powerful electromagnetic waves heating plasma electrons: Design developing research of gyrotron
- 20.9.24
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.9.9
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.9.4
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.8.26
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.8.21
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.7.1
- EurekAlert:Lose weight of fusion reactor component -Design optimization using a topology optimization technique-
- 20.7.1
- EurekAlert:An accurate simulation of high-pressure plasma for an economical helical fusion reactor
- 20.6.22
- Research Updates:Metal receiving heat from the sun of the ground:Developing the Dispersion Strengthening Copper carrying cooling function
- 20.5.25
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.4.17
- Announcement:Employment
- 20.4.14
- The 29th International Toki Conference on Plasma and Fusion Research October 27-30, 2020
- 20.3.10
- EurekAlert:Isotope movement holds key to the power of fusion reactions
- 20.3.5
- To those who want to visit NIFS:Regarding Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- 20.1.9
- Research Updates:Fast Particles Distort Electric Potential in the Plasma:High-Precision Particle Simulation Research
- 19.11.7
- Research Updates:Operating Simulator of Large Superconducting Magnetic Cooling Device - Heading for the early establishment of an optimal design and an operating method –
- 19.9.13
- Announcement:Employment
- 19.9.6
- Announcement:Employment
- 19.9.2
- Announcement:Employment
- 19.8.28
- Announcement:Employment
- 19.8.20
- Press Release & EurekAlert:Simulations demonstrate ion heating by plasma oscillations for fusion energy
- 19.8.2
- Press Release & EurekAlert:Demonstration of alpha particle confinement capability in helical fusion plasmas
- 19.7.16
- Press Release & EurekAlert:Fusion scientists have developed “the nano-scale sculpture technique”: ~ This enables observation inside hard materials with an atomic-scale ~
- 19.7.4
- Announcement:Employment
- 19.6.28
- 2nd announecement of ITC28 has been released.
- 19.6.24
- Announcement:Employment
- 19.5.14
- Research Updates:Joint Project between National Institute for Fusion Science and Southwest Jiaotong University in the People’s Republic of China - Construction of the Quasi-axisymmetric stellarator(CFQS)
- 19.4.26
- The 28th International Toki Conference on Plasma and Fusion Research
- 19.3.12
- Press Release & EurekAlert:Fusion Science and Astronomy Collaboration Enables Investigation of the Origin of Heavy Elements
- 18.12.7
- EurekAlert:Developing New Materials for the Fusion Reactor: Success in Developing Vanadium Alloys Strong at High Temperatures and Appropriate for Manufacturing and Welding
- 18.11.9
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.11.6
- The 27th International Toki Conference on Plasma and Fusion Research & The 13th Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference (ITC27 & APPTC2018)
- 18.10.11
- Research Updates:Exploring the Conditions for the Use of Superfluid Helium:Boiling Experiment under Exceedingly Minute Gravity
- 18.9.28
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.9.20
- Research Updates:Asymmetry that Appears in Plasma: Comparison between Density Measurements Based upon the Heavy Ion Beam Probe and Theoretical Research
- 18.8.29
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.8.29
- Research Updates:Constructing a Strong Wall That Will Not Be Damaged by Plasma:Accelerating Reactor Wall Research Development in Extreme Heat Load Test Devices
- 18.8.22
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.8.17
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.7.31
- Research Updates:Research on Flows Born in Plasmas: Seeking to Clarify the Influence of the Flow upon Plasma Performance
- 18.7.17
- Research Updates:Developing New Materials for the Fusion Reactor: Success in Developing Vanadium Alloys Strong at High Temperatures and Appropriate for Manufacturing and Welding
- 18.6.19
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.6.19
- Research Updates:Improvement of Confinement Performance in Deuterium Experiments: Comparison of Energy Confinement Times
- 18.6.7
- Research Updates:Visualization Research Utilizing an Immersive Virtual Reality Device: Constructing Helical DEMO Reactor in a Virtual Space
- 18.6.5
- Announcement:Employment
- 18.5.15
- Research Updates:Mechanisms of Sudden Phenomenon Eruptions:New Discoveries for Immediate Prediction of Plasma Loss
- 18.5.1
- Research Updates:Plasma Research Extending to the Fields of Energy, Medical Treatment, Industry, and Outer Space: Presentations Delivered at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences Research Symposium
- 18.4.20
- The 27th International Toki Conference on Plasma and Fusion Research & The 13th Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference
- 18.4.2
- Research Updates:Sending “Big Data” at the World’s Fastest Speed: Collaboration between the Research Center at Rokkasho and Other Institutes
- 18.3.2
- Research Updates:Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?: Investigating the Law of Causality in the Generation and Suppression of Turbulence
- 18.2.23
- Research Updates:A High-Precision Simulation of “Detached Plasma” that Mitigates Plasma Heat Load to the Divertor: Development of a Precise Calculation Program for Pursuing the Movement of Various Kinds of Particles
- 18.1.31
- Research Updates:Visually Investigating Turbulent Flows by Using Liquid Crystal: Experimental Research on Transport by Convection
- 17.12.18
- Research Updates:Realization of High-efficiency Pumping Using High-performance Cryo-adsorption Pumps: Evacuating Particles Collected at the Divertor in the Vacuum Chamber
- 17.12.1
- Research Updates:Research on the Fuel Supply through Pellet Injection: Optimization through the Supercomputer
- 17.11.22
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.11.21
- Research Updates:Producing Gentle Plasma for the Divertor: Many Magnetic Field Structures Seem Possible
- 17.10.17
- Research Updates:Impurities Flowing Away from Plasma: Observations of Impurity Screening Effects by Spectroscopic Measurements
- 17.10.16
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.10.6
- International Toki Confernece:New Era in Plasma and Fusion Research & The 11th Asia Plasma and Fusion Association Conference(December 5-8, 2017)
- 17.9.28
- Research Updates:Measuring the Structure of Large Numbers of Turbulent Flows Using a Comb: Developing Diagnostics Using a Frequency Comb
- 17.9.13
- Research Updates:Examining the Magnetic Island Generation Mechanism through Simulations: Large Deformations Induce New Instabilities
- 17.9.1
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.8.28
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.8.25
- Research Updates:The Nineteenth Plasma Experimental Cycle Completed: The Deuterium Experiment Has Begun Smoothly
- 17.8.25
- Research Updates:Effectively Evacuating Hydrogen Gas from Inside the Vacuum Vessel:Development of the Cryogenic Adsorption Pump for Evacuating System
- 17.8.10
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.8.1
- Research Updates:Measuring Temperature Accurately by Reducing Noise:Enhancing Thomson Scattering Diagnostics
- 17.7.28
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.7.14
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.7.12
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.7.11
- Research Updates:Suppression of Turbulence and Heat Loss by Deuterium Plasma:Physical Mechanisms Solved by Supercomputers
- 17.7.10
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.7.6
- Press Release:National Institute for Fusion Science Establishes International Academic Cooperation Agreement with Southwest Jiaotong University in the People’s Republic of China
- 17.6.23
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.6.6
- Research Updates:Investigating the Anisotropy of Plasma: Polarization Spectroscopy Diagnostics
- 17.6.5
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.5.30
- Research Updates:Expelling Impurities by Microwaves: A Method for Cleaning Plasma
- 17.5.2
- Research Updates:Toward an Understanding of Edge Plasma: Comparing Experiment and Numerical Simulation
- 17.4.7
- Research Updates:Detailed Measurements of Electron Temperature Fluctuations with Digital Spectroscopy: Electron Cyclotron Emission Measurement
- 17.4.7
- Research Updates:Heating Ions through Heat from Electrons: Heating Experiments Using High-Power High-Frequency Electromagnetic Waves
- 17.3.8
- The Nineteenth Experimental Cycle Started
- 17.2.14
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.2.13
- Research Updates:Plasma-Material Interaction Investigated by Electron Microscope: The Discovery of the Effect of Crystal Orientation
- 17.2.9
- Announcement:Employment
- 17.1.25
- Confirming the Improvement of Hydrogen Solubility through the Mixing of Metallic Particles: Anticipating Application to the Coolants in the Fusion Reactor
- 16.12.28
- Clarifying Plasma Perturbations by High-energy Particles: Hybrid Simulations Using Particles and Fluids
- 16.12.7
- The Ballooning (Balloon-Type) Instability Caused by the Steep Pressure Gradient: Acquiring Hints Regarding Improvement of High-density Plasma Performance
- 16.11.17
- Research Updates:Investigating the Whereabouts of Waves inside a Plasma: The Development of an Observation Method Focusing on Cost-Performance
- 16.11.7
- Research Updates:Observations of Fluctuations that Grow Together with Deceleration of Rotation: A Comparison of Helical and Tokamak Plasmas
- 16.9.29
- Research Updates:Clarifying the Physics of the Confinement Improvement Phenomenon of High-temperature Plasmas: Results that Approach Questions over the Past Thirty Years
- 16.9.29
- Research Updates:Imaging Diagnostics of LHD Plasma Using High-speed Cameras and a Simulation Analysis: The Movement of Dusts in Edge Plasmas
- 16.9.1
- Announcement:Employment
- 16.8.18
- Research Updates:Discovery of a Method for Strongly Affixing Two Metals with Different Properties: Contributing to the High Performance of the Divertor’s Removal of the High Heat Load
- 16.8.18
- Research Updates:Investigating the Growth and Rotation of Plasma Fluctuations through Calculations: Linear Analysis and Nonlinear Simulation of Instabilities
- 16.7.27
- Announcement:Employment
- 16.7.4
- Research Updates:Aiming the Electron Beam and Investigating the Light Emission: Collecting Light Emission Data from Ceramics Materials for the Fusion Reactor
- 16.7.4
- Announcement:Employment
- 16.6.24
- Announcement:Employment
- 16.6.22
- Announcement:Employment
- 16.6.10
- Research Updates:We Now Understand the Idea for Maintaining Fusion Plasma for an Extended Duration: Micro-sedimentary Accumulation Layer Controls Plasma Maintenance
- 16.6.3
- Announcement: Employment
- 16.5.31
- Research Updates:Discovering a New Plasma Confinement Condition: Results from the Japan-United States Joint Research
- 16.5.26
- Research Updates:Seeking to Predict Plasma Movement in a Fusion Reactor: Reproduction of Collision Phenomena among Multiple Ion Species on Computer
- 16.4.20
- Research Updates:Optical Devices Made of Ceramics that Cause the Phenomenon that the Father of Electricity “Faraday” Discovered: Toward Accurate Measurements of Plasma
- 16.3.17
- Research Updates:Discovery of a New Abrupt Phenomenon in High-temperature Plasma in the Large Helical Device: Abrupt Generation of Large Amplitude Waves and Clarification of the Mechanismt
- 16.3.17
- Research Updates:Predicting Plasma Turbulence and Energy Confinement: Reproducing LHD Deuterium Plasma Using Leading Edge Supercomputers
- 16.2.18
- Announcement: Employment
- 16.2.12
- Research Updates:Success in Extensive Coating of Oxidized Erbium Electrical Insulator: Development of High-performance Coating Technology inside a Pipe for an Advanced Blanket
- 16.1.18
- Research Updates:Building a Wall that Withstands High Temperatures Using Liquid Metal:
The Development of the Tin Shower Divertor - 15.12.25
- Research Updates:Transmitting Electromagnetic Waves for Plasma Heating with High Efficiency and High Quality: Numerical Simulation of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Waveguides
- 15.12.15
- Announcement: Employment
- 15.12.15
- Research Updates:Investigating Plasma’s “Thread-like” Behavior by Computer Simulation: Microscopic Effects in Edge Plasma
- 15.12.9
- Symposium on Hierarchy and Holism in Natural Sciences(February 5-6, 2016)
- 15.12.4
- Announcement: Employment
- 15.12.1
- Announcement: Employment
- 15.11.13
- Research Updates:Enhancing the High Efficiency of Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating: Estimating How Electromagnetic Waves Curve
- 15.10.27
- International Toki Confernece:Creating the Future -- Innovative Science of Plasma and Fusion -- (November 3-6, 2015)
- 15.10.23
- Research Updates:LHD Plasma in Which Impurities Naturally Decrease: Research on Impurity Transport in Edge Plasma
- 15.9.29
- Research Updates:Analyzing Big Data at High Speed!: Developing a High-speed Plasma Analysis System
- 15.9.4
- Research Updates:Microwave Imaging: New Image Diagnostic Techniques Born of Fusion Research
- 15.9.4
- Research Updates:Data Analysis of Waves Inside a Plasma: Cooperating with Basic Plasma Experiments
- 15.9.4
- Research Updates:Measuring the Electric Field Structure in a Plasma: Two-Dimensional Electric Potential Diagnostics through the Heavy Ion Beam Probe Method
- 15.8.24
- Asian Winter School will be held. (application deadline from abroad: Sep 14, 2015)
- 15.7.17
- Research Updates:Seeking Materials Stronger at Higher Temperatures: The Development of Oxide Dispersion-Strengthened Metals
- 15.7.10
- Announcement: Employment
- 15.6.17
- Research Updates:Long-Term Prediction of the Temperature and Density of Plasma Made Possible: Computer Simulation Research Focusing on the Butterfly Effect
- 15.6.17
- Research Updates:Electron Density Diagnostics with a Harmonic Interferometer: Joint Research toward Plasma Applications in Environmental and Medical Fields
- 15.6.4
- Announcement: Employment
- 15.4.27
- Using a Coolant Containing Lithium to Remove Heat from Plasma: Developing a Coolant Circulation Loop that Simulates the Fusion Power Generation System
- 15.4.27
- Research Updates:Clarifying the Particle Acceleration Mechanism through Shock Waves in a Plasma: Introducing Research Utilizing the Plasma Simulator
- 15.3.26
- Research Updates:Measuring Negative Hydrogen Ion Density in Plasma: Seeking to Enhance High Performance Negative Ion Sources
- 15.3.9
- Research Updates:Controlling Convection: Numerical Simulation Using Supercomputers
- 15.2.24
- Research Updates:The 18th Plasma Experiment Cycle Concluded: Advances in High-Performance Plasma
- 15.2.24
- Research Updates:High-speed Photography of Changes in Plasma: High-speed Soft X-ray Camera Measurements
- 15.2.24
- Research Updates:New Developments in Research on Steady State Plasma: Maintaining High-performance Plasma for an Extended Period
- 15.2.24
- Research Updates:Investigating Periphery Plasma by Inserting a Needle: The Electrostatic Probe Diagnostic
- 15.2.24
- Research Updates:Destroy the Symmetry Slightly and Skillfully Confine the Plasma
- 14.12.11
- Research Updates:Maintaining Plasma for Extended Duration: Enhancing the Performance of Steady-state Plasma through Increased Heating
- 14.12.11
- Research Updates:Natural Radioactive Sources which Use Materials in Our Daily Lives: Developing Practical Radiation Education Methods
- 14.11.17
- Research Updates:The 18th Cycle of Plasma Experiments Has Begun
- 14.10.24
- Announcement: Employment
- 14.10.14
- Collection of Contributions from NIFS to the 25th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference(Sint Petersburg, Russia 13-18 Oct. 2014)
- 14.8.4
- Research Updates
- 14.8.1
- Sokendai Asian Winter School (December 2-5, 2014)
- 14.7.28
- Announcement: Employment
- 14.6.9
- International Toki Confernece:Expanding Horizons of Plasma and Fusion Science through Cross-Fertilization (November 4-7, 2014)
- 14.6.3
- Research Updates
- 14.5.19
- Announcement: Employment
- 14.5.8
- Announcement: Employment
- 14.3.10
- Announcement: Employment
- 14.3.5
- Announcement: Employment