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Nuclear Disaster Prevention Systems Lab
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A lab that studies the properties of nuclear fuels and new materials.
AboutAbout the lab
From nuclear fuel to thermoelectric materials: understanding the properties of materials
The Nuclear Disaster Prevention Systems Lab (Kurosaki Lab) studies the physical properties of nuclear fuels and reactor materials, develops new materials through materials informatics, and develops inexpensive, non-toxic, high-efficiency thermoelectric materials.
The lab also evaluates how the physical properties of nuclear fuel change when fission products accumulate in it, and works on developing accident tolerant fuel, which has drawn attention since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.
Key terms
- Fission products
- Other elements produced when nuclear fuel undergoes fission
- Accident tolerant fuel
- Nuclear fuel designed so that it is less likely to fail even if an accident occurs
- Thermoelectric material
- A material that generates electricity directly from a temperature difference
- Materials informatics
- A method of searching for new materials using large amounts of materials data and machine learning
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the physical properties of nuclear fuels and reactor materials, materials informatics, and thermoelectric materials.
*Illustrative imageFission Products and the Properties of Nuclear Fuel
The lab makes simulated fuels by adding various fission products to uranium dioxide, and evaluates how the accumulation of fission products changes the thermal conductivity and hardness of nuclear fuel.
*Illustrative imageNew Accident Tolerant Fuel
As candidates for accident tolerant fuel, which has drawn attention since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the lab produces uranium silicides of various compositions and evaluates their physical properties.
*Illustrative imageMaterials Informatics
Using machine learning on large-scale materials data, the lab develops new nuclear fuel materials and thermoelectric materials.
*Illustrative imageInexpensive, Non-Toxic Thermoelectric Materials
Aiming at waste heat recovery and at technology that generates power over long periods from small temperature differences, the lab develops new thermoelectric materials based mainly on silicon.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKen Kurosaki
- Associate ProfessorHirotoshi Uebayashi
- Assistant ProfessorSun Yifan
- Assistant ProfessorMari Toyama
- Assistant ProfessorNACHAITHONG Theeranuch
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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: “UO2lattice” Cadmium at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Fission Products and the Properties of Nuclear Fuel: “Uranium-dioxide-3D-vdW” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- New Accident Tolerant Fuel: “Crystal structure of URu2Si2” Edwin Herrera, Víctor Barrena, Isabel Guillamón, José Augusto Galvis, William J. Herrera, José Castilla, Dai Aoki, Jacques Flouquet & Hermann Suderow / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Materials Informatics: “Unraveling AI Complexity - A Comparative View of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI” PopovaZhuhadar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Inexpensive, Non-Toxic Thermoelectric Materials: “Thermoelectric Seebeck power module” Gerardtv / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Thermal Energy Systems Lab): “ORNL Spallation Neutron Source ( )” ENERGY.GOV / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Nuclear Transmutation Systems Engineering Lab): “10,000th Operation at the Annular Core Research Reactor - Sept. )” Nuclear Regulatory Commission from US / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Biomolecular Structure Lab): “TXPES beamline at SESAME” Erkcan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Radiation Biochemistry Lab): “Cataract in human eye” Rakesh Ahuja, MD / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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