Latest News

2024

Aug. 21, 2024
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assistant Professor (Nuclear engineering or nuclear system engineering) (Deadline: 21st October, 2024)
July 26, 2024
Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy held a Hot-Summer Party
July 26, 2024
The 4th, Year 2023 ZC Colloquium  "Bloom syndrome helicase is required for survival of BRCA1/BARD1-deficient cancer"
July 16, 2024
International Symposium on Green Transformation Initiative and Innovative Zero-Carbon Energy Systems : GXI-IZES Web Site Open. [14-16 January, 2025]
Jul. 12, 2024
Handbook: "OVERVIEW of ZC" has been uploaded.
Jun. 5, 2024
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assistant Professor (Science of energy materials for carbon neutrality ) (Deadline: June 28, 2024)
Mar. 10, 2024
The 10th, Year 2023 ZC Colloquium  "Double strand breaks form in DNA when alkylation repair intermediates collide."
Feb. 08, 2024
Recent Research Activities: A Non-Proliferation Solution: Using Antineutrinos to Surveil Nuclear Reactors
Jan. 05, 2024
Recent Research Activities: Research on Molten Salt Fast Reactors with Inherent Safety (II)
- Safe shutdown without relying on control rods even in transients with safety protection system bypass -

2023

Oct. 12, 2023
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assistant Professor (Research fields: Science of energy materials for carbon neutrality) (Deadline: October 31, 2023)
Oct. 12, 2023
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assistant Professor (Research fields: Thermal engineering and materials for carbon neutrality) (Deadline: October 31, 2023)
Aug. 29, 2023
Openings: Announcement of Open Professor Position (Research fields: Nuclear engineering or system engineering related to fast reactors and small modular reactors) (Deadline: October 13, 2023)
Aug. 4, 2023
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assitant Professor (Research fields related to Science of energy materials for carbon neutrality) (Deadline: September 29, 2023)
Aug. 4, 2023
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assitant Professor (Research fields related to Thermal engineering and materials for carbon neutrality) (Deadline: September 29, 2023)
Aug. 2, 2023
Recent Research Activities: Perspective Article "How does chemistry contribute to circular economy in nuclear energy systems to make them more sustainable and ecological?"
-Advocating Contribution and Relevance of Cutting-edge Inorganic Chemistry to Nuclear Fuel Cycle
July 11, 2023
Openings: Job posting for Assistant Professor (Research fields related to energy storage and conversion) (Extension to 8/31)
June 30, 2023
OVERVIEW of ZC Vol. 3 has been uploaded.
May 19, 2023
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Assistant Professor (Research fields related to energy storage and conversion) (Deadline: June 30, 2023)
May. 16, 2023
The 2nd, Year 2023 ZC Colloquium  The 2nd, Year 2023 GXI seminar "Wild KUUKAI - WhyBuddhist monk was a civil engineer"
Mar. 15, 2023
Selected as a "Highlighted Presentation" at the 70th JSAP Spring Meeting
Successful spatially-resolved measurement of electron temperature and density - Joint research by Tokyo Tech and ULVAC
Mar. 3, 2023
"Bulletin of the Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy Vol.1" has been uploaded.
Feb. 2, 2023
Recent Research Activities:Solid material that 'upconverts' visible light photons to UV light photons could change how we utilize sunlight-
Jan 20, 2023
The International Symposium for Zero-Carbon Energy Systems (IZES) held

2022

Nov. 21, 2022
Recent Research Activities:Research on molten salt fast reactors with inherent safety - No need to insert control rods even in transients or accidents -
Sep. 16, 2022
Openings: Announcement for a Position of Associate Professor (Deadline: October 31, 2022)
Aug. 22, 2022
Recent Research Activities:Proposal of a heat exchanger used in molten salt fast reactors - Research learned from past knowledge -
June. 21, 2022
Recent Research Activities:Development of a neutron beam monitor with a thin plastic scintillator for nuclear data measurement using spallation neutron source
June. 16, 2022
The Final Announcement of International Symposium on Zero-Carbon Energy Systems IZES (10-12 January 2023) is released.
June. 14, 2022
Recent Research Activities:Measurements of the neutron capture cross section of Am-243 at high energy region.
May. 10, 2022
Bulletin is uploaded.
Mar. 15, 2022
Recent Research Activities:NMB4.0: Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Simulator has been developed and is now available free of charge! -Building a platform for the development strategy of the advanced energy system-
Feb. 08, 2022
Recent Research Activities:Corrected errors in the reactivity insertion experiment report (in 1970) for the molten salt reactor MSRE - Pave the way for future analysis code verification -

2021

Dec. 23, 2021
Prof. Takeshita appeared on the dialog for the future "Toward carbon-neutral society through emerging technology" by the Laboratory for Design of Social Innovation in Global Networks (DLab).
Oct. 05, 2021
Joint research projects begin between Tokyo Tech and Russian research institutions
Aug. 19, 2021
Recent Research Activities:Concept of metal fuel sodium cooled RFBB
July 28, 2021
Information: Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy Launch Symposium [August 31, 2021]
July 12, 2021
Recent Research Activities: Neutron beam filter system for fast neutron cross-section measurement at the ANNRI beamline of MLF/J-PARC
June 21, 2021
Recent Research Activities: Discovery of a new low energy neutron resonance of Y-89
June 3, 2021
International Symposium on Zero-Carbon Energy Systems : IZES Web Site Open. [28-30 June, 2022]
June 1, 2021
On June 1, 2021, the Institute of Innovative Research Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy was reorganized to form the new Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy.
May 6, 2021
Recent Research Activities: Verification of Neutronics-Thermalhydraulics Coupling Multi-Physics Method for Molten Salt Fast Reactor New!
Mar. 13, 2021
Bulletin is uploaded.

2020

Nov. 4, 2020
Recent Research Activities: Visualization of the recruitment kinetics of DNA repair factor PNKP to DNA damages at seconds-scale