JAPAN - NIFS

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE¹

TOKI Site

Oroshi-cho, Toki-shi,
Gifu-ken, 509-5192

Telephone: +81 572 58 2222
Telefax: +81 572 58 2601
E-mail: okuhara@nifs.ac.jp

Director-General:	Fujiwara, Masami
Associate Director-General:	Hamada, Yasuji

Department of Large Helical Device Project

Director:

Motojima, Osamu

Research Operations Division

Yamazaki, Kozo (Director)
Akaishi, Kenya
Funaba, Hisamichi
Inagaki, Shigeru
Inoue, Noriyuki
Komori, Akio
Masuzaki, Suguru
Miyazawa, Junichi

Morisaki, Tomohiro
Motojima, Osamu
Nakamura, Yukio
Narushima, Yoshirou
Nishimura, Kiyohiko
Noda, Nobuaki
Ohyabu, Nobuyoshi
Sagara, Akio

Sakakibara, Satoru
Sakamoto, Ryuichi
Suzuki, Hajime
Syoji, Mamoru
Watanabe, Kiyomasa
Yamada, Hiroshi

Diagnostics Division

Sudo, Shigeru (Director)
Emoto, Masahiko
Goto, Motoshi
Hamada, Yasuji
Ido, Takeshi
Iguchi, Harukazu
Kawahata, Kazuo
Minami, Takashi

Morita, Shigeru
Muto, Sadatsugu
Nagayama, Yoshio
Nakanishi, Hideya
Narihara, Kazumichi
Nishizawa, Akimitsu
Ohdachi, Satoshi
Ozaki, Tetsuo

Peterson, Byron Jay
Sato, Kuninori
Tanaka, Kenji
Toi, Kazuo
Tokuzawa, Tokihiko
Yamada, Ichihiro

Plasma Heating Division

Ohkubo, Kunizo (Director)
Idei, Hiroshi
Ikeda, Katsunori
Kaneko, Osamu
Kubo, Shin

Kumazawa, Ryuhei
Mutoh, Takashi
Oka, Yoshihide
Osakabe, Masaki
Seki, Tetsuo

Shimozuma, Takashi
Takeiri, Yasuhiko
Tsumori, Katsuyoshi
Watari, Tetsuo
Yoshimura, Yasuo

Theory and Data Analysis Division

Itoh, Kimitaka (Director)
Ichiguchi, Katsuji
Ishizaki, Ryuichi
Kanno, Ryutaro
Murakami, Sadayoshi

Nakajima, Noriyoshi
Okamoto, Masao
Sanuki, Heiji
Sugama, Hideo
Toda, Shinichiro

Todoroki, Jiro
Watanabe, Tsuguhiro
Yokoyama, Masayuki

Device Engineering Division

Satow, Takashi (Director)
Chikaraishi, Hirotaka
Hamaguchi, Shinji
Imagawa, Shinsaku
Iwamoto, Akifumi

Kitagawa, Shiro
Kubota, Yusuke
Maekawa, Ryuji
Mito, Toshiyuki
Nishimura, Arata

Takahata, Kazuya
Tamura, Hitoshi
Yamada, Syuichi
Yanagi, Nagato

Research and Development Division

Matsuoka, Keisuke (Director)
Fujisawa, Akihide
Ida, Katsumi
Isobe, Mitsutaka
Nishimura, Shin

Nomura, Izumi
Okamura, Shoichi
Sakaue, Hiroyuki Albert
Sasao, Mamiko
Sato, Motoyasu

Suzuki, Chihiro
Tanaka, Masayoshi
Yoshimura, Shinji
Yoshinuma, Mikiro

Theory and Computer Simulation Center

Sato, Tetsuya (Director)
Fujiwara, Susumu
Goto, Susumu
Hayashi, Takaya
Horiuchi, Ritoku
Ishiguro, Seiji
Kageyama, Akira

Kamimura, Tetsuo
Kida, Shigeo
Miura, Hideaki
Mizuguchi, Naoki
Nakamura, Hiroaki
Ohtani, Hiroaki
Takamaru, Hisanori

Takayama, Arimichi
Tamura, Yuichi
Todo, Yasushi
Tomita, Yukihiro
Watanabe, Tomohiko

Data and Planning Center

Kato, Takako (Director)
Hirooka, Yoshihiko
More, Richard Michael

Murakami, Izumi
Namba, Chusei
Tanaka, Motohiko

Tazima, Teruhiko

Fusion Engineering Research Center

Fujiwara, Masami (Director)
Muroga, Takeo

Nagasaka, Takuya

Suzuki, Akihiro

Safety and Environmental Research Center

Uda, Tatsuhiko (Director)
Asakura, Yamato

Kawano, Takao
Sakuma, Yoichi

Yamanishi, Hirokuni

Computer Center

Kamimura, Tetsuo
Tsuda, Kenzo

Watanabe, Kunihiko
Watanabe, Reiko

Yamamoto, Takashi

Research activities:
One of the main programmes of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) is experimental research on the Large Helical Device (LHD) to study the physics and technology of the confinement and steady state sustainment of high temperature (up to tens of keV) plasmas in a helical type device, employing superconducting magnets. The experiment started in 1998. The major and minor radius of the plasma, and the magnetic field strength are 3.9m, 0.6m, 3T. The heating power will be increased to 9 MW (NBI), 1.5MW (ECH), 3MW (ICH) in 2001. Experimental studies on plasma confinement have been carried out using the helical device CHS (1m/2T). The other main programme comprises theoretical and simulation studies on fusion plasmas using a supercomputer system.

¹ Established on 29 May 1989. The majority of researchers of the former Institute of Plasma Physics, Nagoya University, have been transferred to the new institute, which has also been joined by a part of the Plasma Physics Laboratory, Kyoto University, and the Institute for Fusion Theory, Hiroshima University.