National Institutes of Natural Sciences

National Institute for Fusion Science

Peer Review Reports for FY2016

March, 2017

National Institute for Fusion Science
Advisory Committee External Peer Review Committee

Contents
Chapter 1 Background ······························································································· 1

Chapter 2 Summary of Evaluations, and Proposals ······································ 5
1. Summary of Evaluation ····················································································· 5
2. Proposals ·········································································································· 12

Chapter 3 In Closing ································································································· 14

Documents
1. 2016 External Peer Review Presentation Materials

References
1. Table of Evaluation Results for the 2016 External Peer Review“Collaborative Research”

Chapter 1

Background

The National Institute for Fusion Science (below as NIFS), in order to advance fusionenergy research as an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, was established in 1989 as theLarge Helical Device (below as LHD) being the principal device. The LHD, which bears theconsensus and the expectations of the fusion energy research community, and having the uniquecharacteristic of generating a heliotron-type magnetic field by superconducting magnets, together
with generating high-performance plasma in a helical magnetic field through high-power heating, isadvancing experiment-based research that aims to clarify physical and engineering issues which
focus upon realizing a fusion reactor based on the toroidal magnetic field configuration. On the other
hand, parallel to this goal, in the analysis of fusion plasma bearing essential complexities theoreticalresearch that utilizes large-scale simulations is necessary. For that reason, at NIFS we have installeda supercomputer for exclusive use, and by making this supercomputer available to fusion theory
researchers throughout Japan we have advanced with cutting edge research. Further, from 2010, in
order to strengthen further our centripetal force as a Center of Excellence (below as COE) in thefield of plasma-fusion research, we have organized research projects in the three fields of LHD,
theory and simulation, and fusion engineering. Further, looking toward achieving the fusion reactor,
we have initiated research project that will integrate these research results. In addition to having
revised the research structure within NIFS and having placed all research staff in one research
department, by establishing a research system that enables participation by free will in research
projects, and has enabled easier cooperation in the three projects of LHD, theory and simulation, andfusion engineering than in the past we are increasingly able to respond resourcefully to new topics.

In this period there have been changes in the academic research system in Japan. Since
2004, NIFS has advanced further its collaborative research and its collaborative use as a research
institute belonging to the Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes of
Natural Sciences (below as NINS). Upon becoming an inter-university research institute corporation,a system for mid-term goals and mid-term planning was introduced, and a system of annual
evaluations regarding the advancement, too, was introduced. This annual evaluation focuses
primarily on administrative management. At NIFS, it also was judged important that research results
be evaluated by professional researchers outside of NIFS. As a result, each year an external peer
review committee organized and placed under the NIFS Advisory Committee undertakes a researchevaluation. The items for evaluation are decided at the Advisory Committee meeting, and theevaluation is undertaken by the External Peer Review Committee, which is composed of individuals
who are external members of the Advisory Committee and external experts who are appropriate for
evaluating the topics of evaluation. The External Peer Review Committee reports its evaluation1

results to the Advisory Committee. NIFS, in addition to making those results available on the NIFS
homepage, utilizes the results for improving research activity in following years.

The items for evaluation for the External Peer Review Committee are deliberated anddecided upon, and change each year. Most recently, the Fusion Engineering Research Project in 2013,
the LHD’s Deuterium Experiment Implementation Planning in 2014, and the Numerical Simulation
Reactor Research Project in 2015 each underwent external evaluation. Further, in this current year of
2016, taking “Collaboration Research” as the topic, an external evaluation was conducted. The
external evaluators were ten external members of the Advisory Committee and three foreign
members. Further, there were three experts from outside NIFS. These members composed theExternal Peer Review Committee, and they conducted the evaluation.

First, at the first External Peer Review Committee and Experts Committee Meeting heldon October 12, 2016, there was discussion regarding how this year’s External Peer Review would
move forward, and the issues for evaluation and the specific items for evaluation were decided.
Those contents will be introduced at the end of this chapter. At the second External Peer Review
Committee and Experts Committee Meeting, which were held on December 10, 2016, a detailed
explanation was provided by persons in charge at NIFS by utilizing viewgraphs, activity report
documents, and other materials (please see the appended documents) that touched upon the points ofevaluation. A question and answer session followed. Subsequently, on February 1, 2017, the third
External Peer Review Committee and Experts Committee Meeting was held. Additional discussion
with NIFS was conducted, including a question and answer session with NIFS staff. The evaluation
was conducted according to the issues for evaluation and the specific items for evaluation decided
upon by the External Peer Review Committee and the Experts Committee, and the evaluations werecompiled. As a result, regarding the fundamental conclusion of the evaluation results because ageneral agreement was reached, subsequently, deliberation was undertaken through an email
discussion, and the final report was completed. The dates of this year’s External Peer Review
Committee and Experts Committee Meetings may be found in Document 4.

The issues for evaluation for the “Collaboration Research,” which is the topic of thisyear’s evaluation, in the mid-term planning to be decided by NINS, are indispensable for theevaluation of “Collaboration Research,” which NIFS has promoted. These are the basis of theevaluation of achievements and the evaluation of the level of research.

Further, based upon the “Proposal” in the “Domestic Collaborative Use and Collaborative
Research” and the “International Collaborative Research” which were implemented in 2010, we will2

also consult evaluations of the following points.

1. Is the expansion of Bilateral Collaboration Research to engineering topics being further
promoted?
2. Anticipating the helical-type fusion reactor, is academic collaborative research that leads
universities developing?
3. Regarding the numerical simulation reactor research project and the system of joint use ofmeasuring instruments, is expansion advancing?
4. Has there been a review of the contents of the Japan-Republic of Korea, the Japan-People’s
Republic of China, and the IEA cooperative activities in response to the respective conditions inJapan and abroad?

The evaluation topics for “Collaboration Research” conducted this year are as below.

(Domestic Collaborative Research)
1. Do the recruitment contents for collaborative research reflect trends in research developments andin the respective fields?
2. Regarding the screening of collaborative research topics, has a mechanism for reflecting theopinions of the fusion community been constructed?
3. Together with engaging in the evaluation of research results, is summarizing the results and thensharing those results among the collaborating researchers occurring?
4. Is improvement of the research environment improving through the expansion of equipment
advancing, and is the research environment also contributing to collaborative research andcollaborative use including industry-university collaboration?
5. Is this collaboration contributing to the strengthening of the functions of universities and to theresearch enhancement of universities?
6. Is this collaboration contributing to the development of human resources?
7. Is this collaboration advancing academic research in wide-ranging plasma and fusion fields,
including cooperation with different fields?

(International Collaborative Research)
8. Is the collaboration being prepared soundly for collaborative research bases and systems withforeign organizations?
9. Is the collaboration advancing cooperation with ITER-BA project? Further, is the collaboration
contributing to voluntary activities such as ITPA and others?
10. As an implementing body involved in advancing international collaborative research, is that role3

being sufficiently carried out? Further, are those contents being revised appropriately?
11. Is this international collaborative research contributing to the development of human resources inJapan and abroad?

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Chapter 2

Summation of the Evaluation and Proposals

In this chapter, regarding the activities and results of collaborative research, we summarize
the main points of the evaluation based upon evaluation results and discussions that were raised by
the External Peer Review Committee members.

[1] Summation of the Evaluation(Domestic Collaboration Research)

1. Do the recruitment contents for collaborative research reflect trends in researchdevelopments and in the respective fields?
The recruitment contents were categorized appropriately based upon the three categories
of General Collaboration Research, LHD Project Collaboration Research, and BilateralCollaboration Research. We respond to the broad range of requests from researchers, and revisions
and modifications that respond to activities and developments in fusion research are being
undertaken. In LHD Project Collaboration Research, we are strongly supporting graduate
school-level laboratory group research in fusion science and reactor engineering fields. In BilateralCollaboration Research, expansion of university facilities is advanced strategically as seen in thewell-modulated budget distribution, and we are able to broadly construct a system that supports
plasma and fusion research. In General Collaboration Research, research topics promoted by NIFS
in response to research projects and research topics deriving from the ideas of individual researchers
are advancing broadly. Based upon the information above, these activities can be highly evaluated.
On the other hand, in LHD Project Collaboration Research and Bilateral Collaboration
Research, whose budgets are comparatively large, based upon the future plan at NIFS and how
fusion research at universities proceeds, still further careful investigation is anticipated, and it may
be thought that a rather more flexible discussion would have been beneficial, such as regarding
changes in the budgets provided for each Collaboration Research and the concentrated budget
distribution in the General Collaboration Research. In the future, because the creation of newacademic areas through links within fields and links across fields is being sought, the roles ofuniversities as a place for interaction among varied academic fields will become extremely important.
For that reason, not only the personnel contributions from NIFS to universities, but also
contributions and support to university research from both the hardware and the software facets are
anticipated.

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2. Regarding the screening of collaborative research topics, has a mechanism for reflecting theopinions of the fusion community been constructed?
For the screening of collaborative research proposals, a committee for each Collaboration
Research is formed. The members of those committees are not limited only to NIFS researchers. The
cooperation of researchers from around the country is sought by utilizing the fusion community
network. An external member serves as a committee chair, and several researchers from the fusion
community are added, and a structure with great transparency that can reflect their opinions isformed. Further, the selection process is clearly expressed in the recruitment announcement, and thiswill be made publicly available. And that a structure that permits a representative from each
community to participate in the selection process will be constructed is extremely highly evaluated.
On the other hand, regarding the method for selecting the external members and theresearch field of the present members, it is necessary to more clearly clarify the concrete method forguaranteeing fairness. Further, regarding General Collaboration Research, compared to the size ofthe budget the number of selected projects is many, thus the burden of work relating to screening isheavy. It may be necessary to consider this point. In the future, because the strengthening of broad
links with academia and industry is growing widely, it may be a good idea to add committee
members from research fields in NINS but outside NIFS and to actively create opportunities to hear
the opinions of industry.

3. Together with engaging in the evaluation of research results, are summarizing the results
and then sharing them among the collaborating researchers occurring?
Through the introduction of the collaborative research database Nicollas, to which
researchers throughout Japan apply and which can screen applications, improvements in the
structure regarding the screening of the numerous application documents are implemented, andunified management of information related to collaborative research by the system and screening
based upon whether a collaborative research report was submitted or not in the past are also
implemented. That a joint base of consolidated collaborative research results by collaborative
researchers is being appropriately constructed, and, further, the NAIS system for article information
regarding research results has been improved, and that support for submitting articles is being
provided is highly evaluated. Further, regarding all collaborative research, as research reports arebeing compiled and distributed to collaborative researchers, we can highly evaluate the database
introduced by utilizing the above-mentioned registration system with regard to the sharing and theconsolidation of results.
On the other hand, regarding the system above, there also are matters under development.

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In particular, regarding NAIS, the relationship between research results (articles) and recruitment
subjects is unclear. The familiarity of university researchers with this system is thin, and because thesystem’s convenience is thin, improvement of management and of the system is sought.

4. Is improvement of the research environment improving through the expansion of equipment
advancing, and is it also contributing to collaborative research and collaborative use
including industry-university collaboration?
In the reactor engineering field, that preparation of the high-performance experimental
devices is being undertaken, the preparation for installation of the plasma-irradiation device in LHD,
and preparations for collaborative research are being advanced, that the performance of thelarge-scale parallel computer “Plasma Simulator” has been increased by eight times and is being
utilized in large-scale simulation collaborative research in the plasma and fusion fields is highly
evaluated. Further, “Collaborative Use of Diagnostic Devices,” too, has begun. The opinions of thecommunity continue to be reflected, and are being organized. Research is advancing not only with
universities, but also with private enterprises, and the expansion year after year of instruments incommon use can be highly evaluated.
On the other hand, because the operation days of some devices are few, analysis of causes,
and including the possibility of cooperation between industry and universities, ideas to increase theeffectiveness of operation are sought. The “Plasma Simulator” is greatly increasing the time
available for CPU. However, in order to increase the number of users, we hope there will be plans toincrease the fields that take advantage of simulation. In industry-university collaboration, it may benecessary to initiate systematic planning for developing researchers who can be bridges withcompanies, and developing systems for this with a thorough knowledge of the uniqueness and theinnovativeness of fusion research.

5. Is this collaboration contributing to the strengthening of the functions of universities and to
the research enhancement of universities?
Research which cannot be realized in the structure of research laboratories at universities
such as with high-performing experimental equipment, diagnostic equipment (devices), plasma
physics which utilize large-scale computer environments, and research in fusion engineering
contributes greatly to enhancing research at each university. In particular, General Collaboration
Research and LHD Project Collaboration Research are performing roles broadly in supporting
fundamental research at universities. Further, regarding the number of published research papers in
Bilateral Collaboration Research and LHD Project Collaboration Research, 90 % of those articles

7were written by researchers outside NIFS, and because the amount of contributions to university-led
research results is large the contributions to the function and the research enhancement by NIFS canbe highly evaluated.
The standpoint of the enhancement of the function and research of universities refers to theevaluation points that were newly added in the third mid-term planning from the 2016 academic year,
as there also are unfamiliar parts in the question of how to determine the standard for the evaluationof the degree of contribution in the contents of this report there may be found opinions that data
analysis in this report remains insufficient. We anticipate the promotion of research that brews newconnections across fields and creates new fields based on the precise examination of the statistics
and of the degree of collaborative activities in the papers.
In the future, in examining what NIFS should undertake in order to contribute tostrengthening the functions and to enhance research at universities together with making clear theevaluation items, while effectively utilizing the broad collaborative research system and further
placing the URA system in perspective it is important to promote research that creates new fields
without being limited to the traditional form of linkages across fields. For that purpose, we should
promote the strengthening of links with NIFS and universities, which are contact points for broad
academic fields. It is necessary to construct structures and system designs for collaborative research
for new collaborative research that has not yet existed and looks hard at supporting the hardware andsoftware, and the human resources aspects of universities. As a measure of research enhancement atuniversities, it is important to consider whether NIFS’s contributions are linked not only to
publishing research articles, but also to the development of projects within the university, theacquisition of external funding, and the construction of a research hub.

6. Is this collaboration contributing to the development of human sources?
NIFS, as an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, advertises for collaborative
research projects. For graduate students and undergraduate students who are members of thoseresearch groups, they are provided the opportunity to undertake collaborative research with NIFS
researchers using NIFS’ experimental instruments. Seen from the perspective of nourishing humanresources, this is highly evaluated. Regarding devices and instruments utilized in collaborative
research, there also are large-size high-function instruments that are not possessed at universities.
From being provided a place to discuss with expert researchers at NIFS, this contributes greatly to
opening their abilities of students participating in collaborative research. In particular, conducting
collaborative research at NIFS that maintains a distance from universities and is a research
institution with a mission to conduct large-scale research, this becomes an opportunity for students
to consider their career path as a researcher in the future, and this can be highly evaluated from the8perspective of obtaining researchers.
Regarding students who participate in collaborative research, as an important influence, asa place for collaborative research NIFS can be considered as a place for “plasma engineering studies”
and “fusion studies.” And we wish to see the development of human resources holding global
perspectives through interactions with students and researchers from foreign countries who arepresent at NIFS.

7. Is this collaboration advancing academic research in wide-ranging plasma and fusion fields,
including cooperation with different fields?
In the meaning in which basic academics is considered to be extended, “Fusion Studies” isconnected with various fields. And collaborative research, too, which is being developed at NIFS, isreceiving various suggestions from a broad range of fields, and this is highly evaluated. Amongexperimental facilities for collaborative use, there are many with high operation rates, and at thesame time, as the fundamental processes of plasma physics, atoms and molecules processes, plasmameasurement and other research are continuously advancing, the development is advancing into newfields such as high pressure plasma as well as plasma biology and applied life sciences. Further, that
NIFS, by displaying a positive posture for engaging in cross-disciplinary collaborative activities
within NINS, is fulfilling a role as a compass that indicates direction to collaborative research
participating institutions also is evaluated. In actuality, within General Collaboration Researchlong-living basic research topics, and also research topics opening new fields, are included. Further,academic research that links to plasma in broad ways is advancing, particularly in the fields ofastronomy, general fusion, light science, biology, atoms and molecules, receives a fixed evaluation.
As NIFS is the core of the plasma and the fusion communities, it has established itself as
the “hub of plasma research.” And through holding numerous research meetings each year it isinvolved in outreach, and this is highly evaluated. However, regarding the research results ofindividual researchers, while their research is appropriately disclosed being published in academic
journals, disclosure about the resources and management system for the promotion of academic
research at NIFS is insufficient. Distribution of information to society in easy to understand formats
is requested.

(International Collaboration Research)

8. Is the collaboration being prepared soundly for collaborative research bases and systems
with foreign research organizations?

9By concluding academic exchange agreements with many research institutions abroad andby adjusting the categories and the systems for broad international collaborative research such as
Japan-United States cooperation, Japan-People’s Republic of China cooperation, Japan-Republic ofKorea cooperation, and IEA cooperation, NIFS is constructing a base for implementing thefoundations of international collaborative research. In each international collaborative research
project, numerous Japanese researchers are being sent abroad, and foreign researchers are being
invited to Japan. As the management system for this, the formats that are beneficial in improving
research content such as establishment of Coordination Research Committee and the Research
Enhancement Strategy Office are being composed. Further, the efforts are being made for achieving
sufficient research progress, and these can be evaluated. Regarding the progress in projects currently
underway and the implementing framework, even in the fusion community, information sharing is
not being conducted in some instances. A system for dealing in the future with the transmission of
information is sought.
Regarding NIFS as seen from universities, there also are opinions which request
integration of international collaborative research in plasma and fusion fields in Japan. Further,regarding the construction of a strategy for international collaborative research that incorporates allof NIFS and the Japanese plasma and fusion communities, opinions from universities regarding
taking initiative are gathering.

9. Is the collaboration advancing cooperation with the ITER-BA project? Further, is thecollaboration contributing to voluntary activities such as ITPA and others?
NIFS and ITER have completed a memo of understanding regarding technology
cooperation, and NIFS is contributing actively to ITER project and BA activities in many fields suchas superconducting technology, plasma diagnostics technology, heating equipment development,
wall material, fundamental research, DEMO design. This is highly evaluated. NIFS staff have taken
leadership and are participating actively in technological support and evaluation activities and arecontributing greatly with universities. Together with the National Institutes for Quantum andRadiological Science and Technology, NIFS is fulfilling the role as window for researchcollaboration in Japan. And in the future, as well, NIFS is expected to function as a core institute inconstructing opinion in Japan.
Because these expectations are great, the requests of universities with regard to “further
contributions” too are great. Aiming for “the strengthening of functions” and “research enhancement”
of universities NIFS is asked loudly to design strategies as community coordinators of Japan’s
research so that universities can deepen further their links to ITER Project/BA Activities.

1010. As an implementing body involved in advancing international collaborative research, isthat role being sufficiently carried out? Further, are those contents being revised
appropriately?
The Japan-United States cooperation, the Japan-People’s Republic of China cooperation,and the Japan-Republic of Korea bilateral collaborative research are making steady progress. The
IEA and ST, Stellarator/Heliotron collaborative research projects, and various international
collaborative research are being managed smoothly. These are highly evaluated. As the institutionthat coordinates international collaborative research projects for the fusion field NIFS isappropriately fulfilling its duty to coordinate international collaboration projects by managing
international academic project formation enterprises for the fusion field at NINS, also undertakes thedispatch of NIFS and university researchers and the inviting of foreign researchers. In the future,
coordination of opinions regarding strategic decisions relating to international collaboration projects
will be sought. And the framework for international categories will change, and projects taking a
combinatory strategy that integrates intersecting projects will be sought.

11. Is this international collaborative research contributing to the development of humanresources in Japan and abroad?
In international collaborative research that will be implemented by NIFS, that on the twosides of dispatch and acceptance the exchange of young researchers, including students, will be
undertaken, and that this will contribute to raising global human resources is highly evaluated.
Further, in the case in which veteran fusion researchers at NIFS, when visiting abroad forinternational collaborative research, or when foreign young researchers are accepted into
collaborative research at NIFS, this is beneficial in raising young researchers who will participate incollaborative research. Together with international collaborative research, integrating plans forinternships and international schools is a point that may be evaluated with regard to opportunities forraising international human resources.
As the first mission of international collaborative research is not said to be the raising of
human resources, the dissemination of raising young research as a research result is not being fully
undertaken. If the strategic dispatch and acceptance of young researchers is being undertaken, while
periodically confirming results, constructing a system that enables the delivery of research
information and system maintenance is necessary.

11[2] Proposals
In this year’s evaluation we discussed collaborative research at NIFS. Considering thosecomments, we have summarized proposals regarding future collaborative research.

(1) Together with evaluating the point that NIFS has managed organically three different types ofcollaborative research in budget size and research subject, that is, General, LHD Project, andBilateral Collaborative Research, in the future, too, we anticipate still further development ofcollaborative research systems that have considered the complete image of the plasma fusion field.
While working to expand the research base of the fusion physics by augmenting collaborative
research actively, academic comments towards other fields and promotion of cross-discipline
connections, we wish to advance the construction of a broad, cooperative system.

(2) In order to vitalize collaborative research, we anticipate the inclusion of still more active various
opinions and wishes of researchers by grasping the research trends of the fusion community. In
addition, in computerization of management business such as application of collaboration researchand research report submission we anticipate efforts that aim at improving further conveniencefrom expectations that the progress in information technology will improve.

(3) The inclusion of the strengthening of the functions and research enhancement of universities inthe third mid-term planning can be highly evaluated. By enhancing linkages between universities
that are involved in coordination across wide-ranging academic fields and NIFS, we anticipate
endeavors aimed at reforms of collaborative research that link new constructions of wide-ranging
cooperation and support relationships that lead to strengthening of the research base ofuniversities and to more active human interactions.

(4) We highly evaluate that broad-ranging development of international collaborative researcharound the world is energetically advancing. In the future, too, as the core institution advancing
academic research in the fusion field in Japan, regarding the active involvement in ITER
Project/BA Activities as well as participation in broad international collaborative research, weseek still further functional development while integrating linkages with universities and opinionsof universities.

(5) Through academic research with fusion as the key, NIFS is contributing to the development ofyoung researchers, including graduate students and young researchers in Japan as well as young
researchers from Asia-centered foreign countries. We anticipate their further enrichment. In

12addition, while using opportunities for actively training human resources and utilizing broad
training systems for young researchers, we anticipate measures that will link to the strategic
raising of human resources and the strengthening of the system.

Collaborative research and collaborative use in which inter-university research institutes playa major role is a system unique to our country, and contributes greatly to the advancement of ourcountry’s academic research centered in universities. In particular, because we can highly evaluate
the designing of various efforts and improvements relating to collaborative research for the fusion
community at NIFS, we anticipate still further expansion of collaborative research so that NIFS willdevelop further as a core of academic research in the fusion field.

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Chapter 3

In Closing

At NIFS, since the beginning of the second midterm objective period from 2010 in order tofurther strengthen the centripetal force of plasma and the fusion field as COE, NIFS has organizedresearch projects in the three fields of LHD, theory and simulation, and fusion engineering, andstarted research planning for integrating these results aiming toward realization of the fusion reactor.
For this reason, in 2010 a restructuring of the research organization also was undertaken. All
research education staff were combined into one research department, and a system which permits
free participation in the three projects was composed. Links among the three fields of LHD, theory
and simulation, and fusion engineering were forwarded, and regarding the research topics, being able
to respond according to circumstances is anticipated.

At the External Peer Review Committee at NIFS, evaluations of the Fusion Engineering
Research Project which was initiated in 2013, the Deuterium Experiment Implementation Planningin 2014, and the Numerical Simulation Reactor Research Project in 2015 were undertaken. Then,
this current year (2016) at the Advisory Committee it was decided to conduct an external evaluationof “Collaboration Research.” The External Peer Review Committee was composed of ten external
members of the Advisory Committee and three foreign members. Further, in addition, three
specialist researchers in Japan who are not affiliated with NIFS were added to the committee. They
undertook an evaluation of the points below.

(Domestic Collaborative Research)
1. Do the recruitment contents for collaborative research reflect trends in research developments andin the respective fields?
2. Regarding the screening of collaborative research topics, has a mechanism for reflecting theopinions of the fusion community been constructed?
3. Together with engaging in the evaluation of research results, are summarizing the results and thensharing them among the collaborating researchers occurring?
4. Is improvement of the research environment improving through the expansion of equipment
advancing, and is it also contributing to collaborative research and collaborative use including
industry-university collaboration?
5. Is this collaboration contributing to the strengthening of the functions of universities and to theresearch enhancement of universities?
6. Is this collaboration contributing to the development of human resources?
7. Is this collaboration advancing academic research in wide-ranging plasma and fusion fields,
including cooperation with different fields?

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(International Collaborative Research)
8. Is the collaboration being prepared soundly for collaborative research bases and systems withforeign research organizations?
9. Is the collaboration advancing cooperation with the ITER-BA project? Further, is the collaboration
contributing to voluntary activities such as ITPA and others?
10. As an implementing body involved in advancing international collaborative research, is that role
being sufficiently carried out? Further, are those contents being revised appropriately?
11. Is this international collaborative research contributing to the development of human resources inJapan and abroad?

The External Peer Review Committee met three times from October 2016 throughFebruary 2017, and detailed explanations along the evaluation points from NIFS as well as question
and answer sessions were held. The evaluation results of the Peer Review Committee members havebeen compiled with all results present, and the External Peer Review report was completed.

As the results of the External Peer Review conducted this year regarding “Collaboration
Research,” with regard to domestic collaborative research and international collaborative research,
our conclusion is, in general, a high evaluation. Through this evaluation, the three categories ofcollaborative research systems, General, LHD Project, and Bilateral Collaborative Research werehighly evaluated. Together with anticipating still further development, efforts toward additional
improvement and reforms are anticipated. For example, from the perspective of the strengthening of
the functions of universities and research enhancement of universities, the necessity of planning tostrengthen linkages with universities further is being extolled and the need for educating humanresources in the fusion field is continually being noted, and it is noted that the significance of thenecessity of raising human resources can be raised. Further, in the evaluation of research projects,
because, in general, the goals that should generally be achieved are frequently expressed as numbers
the standards for evaluation are comparatively clear. However, regarding collaborative research,through continuous effort there is continuous development, and because there are no clear indicatorsfor evaluation, it cannot be helped that the bases of evaluation used by the evaluators vary somewhat.
Perhaps for that reason, in the evaluations in this current collaborative research, it seems thatcompared to evaluations of past projects, the evaluations were somewhat lower. However, whenreading individual opinions, inferring that many wish to receive good collaborative research is acommon message, reviewers are highly evaluating collaborative research. Rather, this is the flip sideof their having high expectations for collaborative research. Further, it goes without saying that not15

only NIFS but also the plasma fusion community should design together a still better collaborative
research system.

Finally, we have collected below proposals for advancing NIFS’ collaborative research in
the future.

(1) Together with evaluating the point that NIFS has managed organically three different types ofcollaborative research in budget size and research subject, that is, General, LHD Project, andBilateral Collaborative Research, in the future, too, we anticipate still further development ofcollaborative research systems that have considered the complete image of the plasma fusion field.
While working to expand the research base of the fusion physics by augmenting collaborative
research actively, academic comments towards other fields and promotion of cross-discipline
connections, we wish to advance the construction of a broad, cooperative system.

(2) In order to vitalize collaborative research, we anticipate the inclusion of still more active various
opinions and wishes of researchers by grasping the research trends of the fusion community. In
addition, in computerization of management business such as application of collaboration researchand research report submission we anticipate efforts that aim at improving further conveniencefrom expectations that the progress in information technology will improve.

(3) The inclusion of the strengthening of the functions and research enhancement of universities inthe third mid-term planning can be highly evaluated. By enhancing linkages between universities
that are involved in coordination across wide-ranging academic fields and NIFS, we anticipate
endeavors aimed at reforms of collaborative research that link new constructions of wide-ranging
cooperation and support relationships that lead to strengthening of the research base ofuniversities and to more active human interactions.

(4) We highly evaluate that broad-ranging development of international collaborative researcharound the world is energetically advancing. In the future, too, as the core institution advancing
academic research in the fusion field in Japan, regarding the active involvement in ITER
Project/BA Activities as well as participation in broad international collaborative research, weseek still further functional development while integrating linkages with universities and opinionsof universities.

(5) Through academic research with fusion as the key, NIFS is contributing to the development ofyoung researchers, including graduate students and young researchers in Japan as well as young

16researchers from Asia-centered foreign countries. We anticipate their further enrichment. In
addition, while using opportunities for actively training human resources and utilizing broad
training systems for young researchers, we anticipate measures that will link to the strategic
raising of human resources and the strengthening of the system.

Collaborative research and collaborative use in which inter-university research institutes playa major role is a system unique to our country, and contributes greatly to the advancement of ourcountry’s academic research centered in universities. In particular, because we can highly evaluate
the designing of various efforts and improvements relating to collaborative research for the fusion
community at NIFS, we anticipate still further expansion of collaborative research so that NIFS willdevelop further as a core of academic research in the fusion field.

17Documents

1. 2016 External Peer Review Presentation Materials

Collaboration Research
Activities in NIFS
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Definition of first midterm target and plan

First midterm period
Definition of second
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on Collaboration

Evaluation

Second midterm period

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Third mid-term
period2016 External Review
on Collaboration

2016 External Review will be based on Second Midterm Target/Plan and suggestions from2010 External Review, and also consider Third Midterm Target/Plan.

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research, is that role being sufficiently carried out? Further, are those contents
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human resources in Japan and abroad?
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International Collaboration Researches

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Korea-Japan Nuclear Fusion Cooperation Project
China-Japan Collaborative Program

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National Institute of Natural Sciencebudgeted for the program of “Formation ofinternational scientific bases in naturalsciences” from 2010 to 2015.
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x Contributions to ITPA from NIFS have been
conducted by ~15 participants/year with ~12
presentations/year.
x NIFS supports the travel fee for the participants.
x Some NIFS researchers have important roles intheir topical groups, such as sub-group leader.
x Recently, importance of 3-D effects on plasmatransport in tokamaks with RMP has beenrecognized, and the research in LHD contributes
to the understanding of the effects.
x The simulation codes, which have beendeveloped in NIFS, are applied to tokamakmodeling.

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x NIFS has the bases of the super-conducting R&D, plasma heating, andplasma diagnostics, and they have been applied to the ITER construction.
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Performance examination of the ITER-TF
coil connection

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High power tube test for ITER ICH system- 1.3MW/10s, 1MW/100s with frequency of 65
MHz using 4CM2500KG.
ITER Cryo-plant Process Study- Dynamic simulation for the supercriticalhelium test loop experiment- Full-scale TF structure modelling withsimulation under two base line scenarios, 15& 17 MA, with Plasma disruption followed by
the slow ramp down and the fast discharge
Engineering Support to ITER Diagnostics
Interferometer- Design of the dispersion-interferometer for
ITER㻠㻢㻛㻢㻤㻌㻌Contributions to BA
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researches
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x DEMO design collaborationx DEMO R&D collaborationx Reduced-activation ferritic steel
x SiC/SiC compositx JET ILW PWI research
x IFMIF/EVEDA collaborationx NIFS also contributes to the management of BA
x NIFS researchers take the posts of:x Steering committee member
x IFERC project leader
x Contributions to JT-60SA
x Collaboration between NIFS and QST (former JAEA)
x Joint development of the super-conducting magnets of JT-60SA
x Making the JT-60SA Research Plan

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As an implementing body involved in advancing
international collaborative research, is that role
being sufficiently carried out?
Further, are those contents being revised
appropriately?
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2007

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2009

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2011

2012

2013

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Korea-Japan Nuclear Fusion Cooperation Project
Structure of the programx Agreement has been concluded in 2004
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x ITER Cooperationx KSTAR Cooperation
x Young researcher's promotion and educationx Workshop, Researcher exchange
x NFRI(Korea, KSTAR) and NIFS(Japan, LHD) cooperate in fields ofplasma diagnostics, plasma heating, etc.

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Korea-Japan Nuclear Fusion Cooperation Project
Statistics of the programx More than 10 persons, including universities researchers andstudents have been dispatched to Korea every year.

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Multilateral Coordination under IEA- 2015 Implementing agreement
2015 - Technology Collaboration Programmes, TCP
IEA Fusion Power TCPs
Environment, Safety and Economic Aspects of Fusion Power (ESEFP TCP)
Fusion Materials (FM TCP)
Nuclear Technology Fusion Reactors (NTFR TCP)
Plasma Wall Interaction (PWI TCP)
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Coordination Group(SSOCG)

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Tokamak Programmes (CTP TCP)x NIFS is the representative institute of Japan for the three TCPs.
x The chair of the SSOCG was NIFS researcher from 2010 to 2015.

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Objective and Scopex Objective: The objective of the co-operation is to improve thephysics base of the Stellarator-Heliotron concept and to enhance theeffectiveness and productivity of research and development efforts
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meetings of the all-Japan ST research program, and for the
dispatch related to the collaboration with NSTX and MAST.
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by highlighting and addressing cross-cutting issues.
x A NIFS researcher has been one of the co-chair of the SSOCG.
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Is this international collaborative researchcontributing to the development of humanresources in Japan and abroad?
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because the research will continue
several tens years.
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x As the hub of the international collaboration between Japanese
universities and foreign institutes, NIFS has carried out the role ofthe implementing body of the bilateral Coordination withintergovernmental agreements and multilateral Coordination underIEA.
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Table of Evaluation Results for the 2016 External Peer Review“Collaborative Research”

Table of Evaluation Results for the 2016 External Peer Review"Collaborative Research"
Number of persons
10
11

項目
Extremely highly
commendable

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

6

8

3

5

7

1

4

6

2

5

1

Highlycommendable

8

8

12

9

6

13

6

6

10

8

10

Commendable

2

0

0

2

3

2

5

4

4

3

5

Adequate

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0

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

Inadequate

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4.25

4.50

4.06

4.19

4.25

3.94

3.81

4.13

3.88

4.13

3.75

Average Score

Evaluation Response Table
Extremely highly commendable

Highly commendable
Commendable
Adequate
Inadequate

Items

[1]

5
4
3
2
1

※ The evaluation result is a combination of the results ofdomestic committee members and foreign committee members.

Points for Evaluation
Domestic Collaborative Research

5

Do the recruitment contents for collaborative research reflect trends in research developments and in
the respective fields?
Regarding the screening of collaborative research topics, has a mechanism for reflecting the opinionsof the fusion community been constructed?
Together with engaging in the evaluation of research results, are summarizing the results and thensharing them among the collaborating researchers occurring?
Is improvement of the research environment improving through the expansion of equipment advancing,and is it also contributing to collaborative research and collaborative use including industry-university
ll b collaborationi ?
Is thiscontributing to the strengthening of the functions of universities and to theresearch enhancement of universities?

6

Is this collaboration contributing to the development of human resources?

7

Is this collaboration advancing academic research in wide-ranging plasma and fusion fields, including
cooperation with different fields?

[2]International Collaborative Research

1
2
3
4

10

Is the collaboration being prepared soundly for collaborative research bases and systems with foreign
research organizations?
Is the collaboration advancing cooperation with the ITER-BA project? Further, is the collaboration
contributing to voluntary activities such as ITPA and others?
As an implementing body involved in advancing international collaborative research, is that role being
sufficiently carried out? Further, are those contents being revised appropriately?

11

Is this international collaborative research contributing to the development of human resources inJapan and abroad?

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Average Score by Evaluation Item
5.00
4.75
4.50
4.25

4.50
4.25

4.25
4.19
4.06

Average Score

4.00

4.13
3.94

4.13
3.88

3.81

3.75

3.75
3.50
3.25
3.00
2.75
2.50
2.25
2.00
1.75
1.50
1.25
1.00
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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Evaluation Item1

項目別平均値
Average Score per Item

5.00

11

4.50

4.25

2

4.50

4.00

3.75

3.50
3.00

10

4.13

3

2.50

4.06

2.00
1.50
1.00

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4.13
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4.25
3.81
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3.94
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National Institutes of Natural Sciences

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