Measurement and analysis of Echizen pottery anagama; Toward a scientific elucidation of the firing process

Terauchi, Makoto  ; Watanabe, Toshio ; Sakakibara, Yasuhide  ; Tanaka, Teruhisa*; Masudaya, Kosei*

JAEA has had many kinds of meetings for technology exchange willingly as an activity to widely make use of the accumulation of the results of research and development on the way to develop FBR "Monju" in general industry. In this report, one of the local traditional industries of Fukui Prefecture, "Echizen pottery" is featured to show an activity of technological exchange. JAEA established a "technological exchange group on Echizen pottery" to scientifically find out the process until firing ends by analyzing behaviors including temperature distribution and flow condition of the inside of anagama with an analyzing technology (thermal Hydraulics), one of our representative research results. This is a report to show the content which has been discussed and evaluated based on the results of firing experiments and their analysis in this group.