Nuclear Energy Handbook

AIST: National Institute of of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology

external URL: http://www.aist.go.jp/

From April 1, 2001, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (the new AIST) has begun operations. The AIST is a newborn research organization that is combined with 15 research institutes which are used to be under the former Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (the former AIST) in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Table 1 below) and The Weights and Measures Training Institute. The new AIST is the Japan's largest public research organizations with research facilities on scale, and around 3,200 employees including the authorities.

URL: http://www.aist.go.jp/
language: English | Japanese
originator: university, laboratory or research organisation
country: Japan
access: open to the general public
type of data: textual information
type of site: non-commercial site

subject category: research institutes and laboratories | nuclear research institutes
INIS/ETDE category: general and miscellaneous