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Asano, Norikazu; Nishimura, Arashi; Takabe, Yugo; Araki, Daisuke; Yanai, Tomohiro; Ebisawa, Hiroyuki; Ogasawara, Yasushi; Oto, Tsutomu; Otsuka, Kaoru; Otsuka, Noriaki; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2021-045, 137 Pages, 2022/06
JAEA-Technology-2021-045.pdf:2.97MB
A collapse event of a cooling tower for secondary cooling system in the Japan Materials Testing Reactor (JMTR) was caused by the strong winds of Typhoon No.15 on September 9, 2019. As measures against the event, the working group for the renewal of the UCL (Utility Cooling Loop) cooling tower was established in the department of JMTR, and the integrity of the UCL cooling tower, which is the same type of wooden cooling tower as the secondary cooling tower in the JMTR, was investigated. As a result of this investigation, we have decided to replace the existing UCL cooling tower with a new cooling system. After investigations, in order to reduce the risk of collapse due to wood decay, the new cooling system was installed as a component of the air system to be managed as a performance maintenance facility after decommissioning. This report describes the design of and the evaluation results of the facility.
Oto, Tsutomu; Asano, Norikazu; Kawamata, Takanori; Yanai, Tomohiro; Nishimura, Arashi; Araki, Daisuke; Otsuka, Kaoru; Takabe, Yugo; Otsuka, Noriaki; Kojima, Keidai; et al.
JAEA-Review 2020-018, 66 Pages, 2020/11
JAEA-Review-2020-018.pdf:8.87MB
A collapse event of the cooling tower of secondary cooling system in the JMTR (Japan Materials Testing Reactor) was caused by the strong wind of Typhoon No.15 on September 9, 2019. The cause of the collapse of the cooling tower was investigated and analyzed. As the result, it was identified that four causes occurred in combination. Thus, the soundness of the cooling tower of Utility Cooling Loop (UCL cooling tower), which is a wooden cooling tower installed at the same period as the cooling tower of secondary cooling system, was investigated. The items of soundness survey are to grasp the operation conditions of the UCL cooling tower, to confirm the degradation of structural materials, the inspection items and inspection status of the UCL cooling tower, and to investigate the past meteorological data. As the results of soundness survey of the UCL cooling tower, the improvement of inspection items of the UCL cooling tower was carried out and the replacement and repair of the structural materials of the UCL cooling tower were planned for safe maintenance and management of this facility. And the renewal plan of new cooling tower was created to replace the existing UCL cooling tower. This report is summarized the soundness survey of the UCL cooling tower.
Kawamata, Takanori; Oto, Tsutomu; Ogasawara, Yasushi; Watahiki, Shunsuke; Araki, Daisuke
UTNL-R-0486, p.8_1 - 8_10, 2014/03
no abstracts in English
Hanakawa, Hiroki; Watahiki, Shunsuke; Ide, Hiroshi; Kitagishi, Shigeru; Imaizumi, Tomomi; Araki, Daisuke; Tobita, Masahiro; Yamaura, Takayuki; Kaminaga, Masanori
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On 18th December 2013, the new regulatory requirements for Japanese research reactor were enforced by the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan. This new regulatory requirements are also applied to any research reactor in Japan, even if licensed research reactor. Thus the verification of conformity in the JMTR facilities to the new regulatory requirements was carried out. In this reports, the safety assessment against the beyond design basis accident will be described. At first, events tree analyses were carried out to select beyond design basis accidents. From these analyses, it was confirmed that 8 events can be representative cases. These events were analyzed from the viewpoints of public dose exposer. As the result of analysis, it was confirmed that 3 events out of 8 has a possibility to give the considerable public dose exposer so that the counter measerments were taken account to reduce the dose exposer to acceptable limit.