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Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Kohashi, Akio; Ozaki, Yusuke; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
JAEA-Research 2018-003, 84 Pages, 2018/06
In this study, numerical experiments considered hydrogeological structures, which has high heterogeneity around the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory and inverse analysis using in-situ data were carried out. The results showed that concentration of hydrogeological structure to be estimated and location of monitoring point is important for application of inverse analysis. Furthermore, it is concluded that inverse analysis using hydraulic response due to pumping test is effective for hydrogeological characterization.
Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Honda, Makoto*; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
JAEA-Research 2015-022, 89 Pages, 2016/03
In Japan, high-level radioactive waste (HLW) will be emplaced in a stable host rock formation deeper than 300 meters underground for geological disposal. It is important to understand heterogeneous distribution of hydraulic conductivity from the viewpoints of the safety assessment of geological disposal of HLW and construction of underground facilities. Inverse analysis based on the transient data is an efficient technique for estimating the heterogeneous distribution. In this study, numerical experiments with the adjoint state method and the ensemble Kalman filter were carried out in order to understand effective method for application of these inverse analysis. As a result of this study, the capability of each analysis techniques was shown.
Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Onoe, Hironori; Kohashi, Akio; Watanabe, Masahisa
Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-23) (DVD-ROM), 7 Pages, 2015/05
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company is facing contaminated water issues. The amount of contaminated water is continuously increasing due to groundwater leakage into the underground part of reactor and turbine buildings. Therefore, it is important to understand the groundwater flow conditions at the site and to predict the impact of countermeasures taken for isolating groundwater from the source of the contamination, i.e. the reactor buildings. Installations, such as of land-side and sea-side impermeable walls have been planned as countermeasures. In this study, groundwater flow modeling has been performed to estimate the response of groundwater flow conditions to the countermeasures. From the modeling, groundwater conditions and changes in response to implementation of the countermeasures could be reasonably estimated. The results indicate that the countermeasures will decrease the volume of inflow into underground part of the buildings. This means that the countermeasures will be effective in reducing the discharge volume of contaminated groundwater to ocean.
Horiguchi, Hironori; Nakamura, Takemi; Motohashi, Jun; Kashimura, Takanori; Ichimura, Shigeju; Sasajima, Fumio
JAEA-Technology 2012-003, 38 Pages, 2012/03
Clinical trials of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) for malignant brain tumors and head and neck cancers have been performed at the research reactor JRR-4. BNCT is a kind of radiation therapy using a nuclear reaction with thermal neutrons and boron (B) elements administered to a patient. The design specifications of all types of reflector elements were changed due to a trouble of a reflector element in JRR-4. In the production of the new reflector elements, they were designed with the influence for the neutron beam facility by the analytical calculation. After the installation of the new reflector elements, the performance of the neutron beam facility was verified by measurement such as a free air experiment and a water phantom experiment. The calculation error used in the treatment planning for BNCT can be estimated by comparing the results of our calculation with the corresponding experimental data.
Nakamura, Takemi; Horiguchi, Hironori; Kishi, Toshiaki; Motohashi, Jun; Sasajima, Fumio; Kumada, Hiroaki*
Proceedings of 14th International Congress on Neutron Capture Therapy (ICNCT-14) (CD-ROM), p.379 - 382, 2010/10
The clinical trials of BNCT have been conducted using JRR-4. The JRR-4 stopped in January 2008, because the graphite reflector was considerably damaged. For this reason, the specifications of graphite reflectors were renewal. All existing graphite reflectors of JRR-4 were changed by new graphite reflectors. The resumption of JRR-4 was carried out with new graphite reflectors in February 2010. We measured the characteristics of neutron beam at the JRR-4 Neutron Beam Facility. A cylindrical water phantom was put the gap for 1cm from the beam port. TLD and gold wire were inserted within the phantom when the phantom was irradiated. The results of the measured thermal neutron flux and the dose in water were compared with MCNP calculations. The calculated results showed the same tendency with the experimental results. These results are proceeding well and will be reported in full paper at July 2010.
Sato, Kazuyoshi; Hashimoto, Masayoshi*; Nagamatsu, Nobuhide*; Yagenji, Akira; Sekiya, Shigeki*; Takahashi, Hideo*; Motohashi, Keiichi*; Ogino, Shunji*; Kataoka, Takahiro*; Ohashi, Hironori*; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2006-006, 587 Pages, 2006/03
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Onoe, Hironori; Beppu, Shinji; Onuki, Kenji; Kohashi, Akio; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Saegusa, Hiromitsu
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Masumoto, Kiyoshi*; Onoe, Hironori; Kohashi, Akio; Yamamoto, Shinya*
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Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*; Kohashi, Akio; Saegusa, Hiromitsu
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Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Honda, Makoto*; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
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Beppu, Shinji; Onoe, Hironori; Kohashi, Akio; Ueno, Tetsuro; Takayasu, Kentaro; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Ishibashi, Masayuki; Sawada, Atsushi
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Ozaki, Yusuke; Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
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The objective of this study is verification of feasibility to estimate hydraulic conductivity with inversion method of water head data in fault zone. Hydraulic conductivity in a fault zone is focused on as a target of inversion because the fault would significantly affect a water head field. A series of numerical test with synthetic model is performed under the condition that the number of fault to estimate hydraulic conductivity and the degree of freedom of hydraulic conductivity distribution in a fault zone is different. The information of hydraulic conductivity outside the faults and location of fault is given to the inversion a priori. Our inversion results shows that the accuracy of estimation is improved by constrain to the number of fault to estimate the hydraulic conductivity and freedom of hydraulic conductivity distribution in a fault. In addition, the number of fault to estimate the hydraulic conductivity should be limited for the certain estimation of hydraulic conductivity in all faults.
Ozaki, Yusuke; Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori
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Keya, Hiromichi; Takayasu, Kentaro; Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Takeuchi, Ryuji
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Ozaki, Yusuke; Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
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Ozaki, Yusuke; Kohashi, Akio; Keya, Hiromichi; Onoe, Hironori; Takeuchi, Ryuji
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In Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory, groundwater recovery experiment test is performed at a part of research tunnel at 500m depth for research of recovery process of subsurface environment disturbed by construction of subsurface structure. During 2017, three times temporal decompression tests of hydraulic pressure in closure test drift keeping closed condition were conducted. We report the reproductivity of time variation of hydraulic pressure during the tests. We also report the estimation results of hydrogeological structure from the data during tests.
Ozaki, Yusuke; Matsui, Hiroya; Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori
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In this study, we introduce the hydro-mechanical behavior observed in the fracture granite medium. The rock deformation due to the change in hydraulic pressure according to the borehole drilling was observed at the 500m stage in Mizunami underground research laboratory. The observed data of rock deformation shows the elastic behavior although the several fractures are observed in the monitoring borehole. We conduct a numerical simulation for the evaluation of this behavior by using finite element methods. The magnitude of simulated deformation is similar value with the observed data. From these results, we conclude that the movement of fracture joints is slight and the subsurface facility is stable to the change in hydraulic response.