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Ito-Ebara-Shishido Lab
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The lab designs the magnets and cooling systems of fusion reactors.
AboutAbout the lab
Integrated energy engineering that supports the realization of fusion reactors.
The Ito-Ebara-Shishido Lab studies the technologies and systems of fusion reactors, which are being developed as the power plants of the future.
The lab conducts research, development, and design on superconducting magnets, blankets that breed fuel, and cooling of divertors that receive intense heat.
It also studies fundamental technologies for improving the reliability of nuclear power plants currently in use.
Its research falls under "integrated energy engineering," which covers a wide range of fields including fluid engineering, heat transfer, electromagnetics, and mechanics of materials.
Key terms
- Fusion reactor
- A reactor that fuses hydrogen isotopes together and generates electricity from the energy released. It works on the same principle as the Sun
- Blanket
- A structure placed around the core plasma that breeds tritium fuel, shields against radiation, and carries away heat
- Divertor
- The part of a fusion reactor that removes helium and impurities produced by fusion reactions from the reactor. It is exposed to extremely high heat
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research, development, and design of the technologies and systems needed to realize fusion reactors, and studies fundamental technologies for improving the reliability of nuclear reactors now in use. The design and development of various cooling devices, electromagnetic application devices, and superconducting application devices that apply the results and technologies obtained from this work are also research subjects.
*Illustrative imageSegmented high-temperature superconducting magnets
The lab proposes building superconducting magnets in separate segments and then assembling them. This is expected to make it possible to build magnets with complex shapes, and to make it easier to repair or replace damaged parts and to maintain the reactor.
*Illustrative imageMolten salt Flibe blanket
Molten salt Flibe, which conducts electricity less readily than Li, contains beryllium, which multiplies neutrons, and is considered a promising blanket material. The lab conducts experiments and analysis jointly with the National Institute for Fusion Science.
*Illustrative imageLiquid Li/V-alloy blanket
This approach uses liquid lithium, which carries heat well, as the breeder material. The flow channels are made of vanadium alloy, and the lab proposes a channel with a three-sided multilayer coating, in which an insulator and a thin metal film are layered on the inner wall.
*Illustrative imageDivertor cooling with porous media
In demonstration and commercial power reactors, the heat flux entering the divertor is said to become several times higher. The lab therefore proposes heat removal using a porous metal, which conducts heat well and has a large contact area with the coolant, and studies it through experiments and numerical analysis.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ito-Ebara-Shishido Lab consist of faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Ito
- Associate ProfessorShinji Ebara
- Assistant ProfessorHiroki Shishido
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “U.S. Department of Energy - Science - )” U.S. Department of Energy from United States / Public domain (cropped)
- Segmented high-temperature superconducting magnets: “Superconducting magnet cutaway 2” Hzofia74 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Molten salt Flibe blanket: “Molten Flinak Salt” Brian Kelleher / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Liquid Li/V-alloy blanket: “Lego model of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator” Siarhei Besarab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Divertor cooling with porous media: “Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger of Chiller” Saud / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Shigeta-Sugimoto Lab): “Plasma Cutter” Tim Drivas / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Muneoka Lab): “Nano-plasma” Al126 at wiki / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Oishi-Takahashi Lab): “U.S. Department of Energy - Science - )” U.S. Department of Energy from United States / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Komiya-Kanda Lab): “PIN FIN HEAT TRANSFER EXPERIMENT - DPLA - 97be4754f4a04324eb4f79b1ca4a3e76” National Aeronautics and Space Administration. John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. 3/1/1999 / Public domain (cropped)
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