The Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI; 電力中央研究所) is a Japanese

non-profit foundation A foundation (also referred to as a charitable foundation) is a type of nonprofit organization or charitable trust that usually provides funding and support to other charitable organizations through grants, while also potentially participating d ...

that conducts research and development of technologies in a variety of scientific and technical fields related to the electric power industry. Also, CRIEPI researches many aspects of social matters through subordinate laboratories. CRIEPI not only engages in research and education in Japan, but also provides education, training and

technology transfer Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...

worldwide. It is similar to the

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EPRI, though its energy research extends into areas that could be considered to be in the domain of the

USDOE The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weap ...

's national laboratories in the United States, such as research and design of fission reactor concepts. In 2004, CRIEPI developed a U.S. presence due to the proposed

Galena Nuclear Power Plant The Galena Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed nuclear power plant to be constructed in the Yukon River village of Galena, Alaska. If it had been built in the projected timeframe, it would have been the first non-military nuclear power plant built i ...

in Galena, Alaska, that is proposed to use an advanced reactor design – the

Toshiba 4S The Toshiba 4S (Super Safe, Small and Simple) is a micro sodium-cooled nuclear fission reactor design. General description The plant design is developed by a partnership that includes Toshiba and the Central Research Institute of Electric Po ...

– developed by Toshiba Corporation and CRIEPI.

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Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

NCAR The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR ) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundat ...

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