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Nuclear Energy and Social Engineering Lab
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The lab pursues nuclear safety through reactor physics and risk assessment.
AboutAbout the lab
Making nuclear technology work in harmony with society
The Nuclear Energy and Social Engineering Lab (Kitada Lab) studies reactor physics, probabilistic risk assessment, and plant maintenance, aiming to use nuclear technology in harmony with society.
In reactor physics, a field at the core of nuclear safety because it concerns the control of nuclear fission, the lab pursues research to improve safety.
In probabilistic risk assessment, the lab studies methods to quantify risk in order to examine measures for preventing severe accidents at nuclear power plants.
In plant maintenance, the lab develops analytical models that predict how the degradation of plant equipment progresses.
Key terms
- Reactor physics
- The academic field of controlling nuclear fission. It underpins nuclear safety.
- Probabilistic risk assessment
- An assessment method that quantifies risk, used to examine measures for preventing severe accidents at nuclear power plants.
- High-level radioactive waste
- Waste contained in the spent fuel of nuclear power plants that remains highly radioactive over a long period.
ResearchResearch themes
Research and development of nuclear technology plays a very important role in the energy strategy that lets resource-poor Japan grow sustainably. The lab studies reactor physics, probabilistic risk assessment, and plant maintenance, aiming to use nuclear technology in harmony with society.
*Illustrative imagePursuing safety through reactor physics
The lab aims to reduce the environmental burden by either confining high-level radioactive waste within the fuel cycle or lowering its radioactivity and heat output. It also works on improving the accuracy of predictions, such as power distribution inside a reactor, by using more rigorous analytical models.
*Illustrative imageQuantifying the risks of nuclear power plants
To examine measures for preventing severe accidents, the lab is establishing probabilistic risk assessment methods for accident events inside plants and developing the indicators used in the assessments. The goal is to quantify the risks of nuclear power plants more appropriately.
*Illustrative imagePlant maintenance: predicting equipment degradation
On the premise of preventing accidents during the service period, and to improve economic efficiency, the lab develops analytical models that predict how the degradation of plant equipment progresses. By considering real-plant phenomena in combination, it aims to reproduce actual phenomena accurately in simulation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nuclear Energy and Social Engineering Lab consist of faculty members, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakanori Kitada
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Takeda
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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: “Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant - Control Room of Units 1 and 2” Yovko Lambrev / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Pursuing safety through reactor physics: “Spent nuclear fuel hanford” United States Department of Energy / Public domain (cropped)
- Quantifying the risks of nuclear power plants: “Bradwell nuclear power station, from distant east” Rwendland / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Plant maintenance: predicting equipment degradation: “Gas boiler hall in Iru Thermal Power Plant (front)” Lauri Veerde / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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