New phenomenon observed in thermal release of Tc from molten MoO

Kawabata, Masako; Nagai, Yasuki; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji*; Sato, Nozomi*; Ota, Akio*; Shiina, Takayuki*; Kawauchi, Yukimasa*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 84(2), p.023201_1 - 023201_4, 2015/02

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.84.023201

Tc for medical use can be separated by thermochromatography from a molten MoO sample. Effect of moist oxygen gas on the Tc release from molten MoO samples was investigated using a Mo/Tc generator. Mo was produced with Mo(n,2n)Mo. A new phenomenon has been observed: release rate, separation- and recovery-efficiencies of Tc were higher in the moist oxygen gas than those in the dry oxygen gas. The present result is a significant progress towards the stable production of a high quality Tc from a molten MoO sample with high separation efficiency. The result would also give us a new insight into the interaction between the moist oxygen gas and the molten MoO.

Inspection of the steam generator heat transfer tubes for FBR Monju restart

Takahashi, Kenji; Shiina, Akira; Onizawa, Takahiro; Ibaki, Shoji; Yamaguchi, Toshihiko; Tagawa, Akihiro

Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-17) (CD-ROM), 9 Pages, 2009/07

Japanese prototype FBR Monju will restart its operation for the first time since the sodium leak accident in 1995. Concerning heat transfer tubes of the steam generator (SG) units, presumable deteriorations were studied and the integrity is confirmed when they have no lack of thickness by corrosion after the long-term suspension. It was impossible to test the tubes directly, then three tests were applied, which were ECT, VT (visual test) and leak test. ECT is to check for the lack of thickness caused by regional corrosion. VT checked for the global corrosion and the bottom of the tube. Leak test checked for pin-holes (penetrating holes). Total evaluation proved no significant lack of thickness and pin-holes in the tube.

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High quality Tc obtained from Mo produced by Mo(n,2n) using accelerator neutrons

Nagai, Yasuki; Kawabata, Masako; Sato, Nozomi*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Ota, Akio; Shiina, Takayuki; Kawauchi, Yukimasa

no journal, , 

Tc, the daughter nuclide of Mo, is widely used for medical diagnosis. In Japan, about 0.9 million diagnostic procedures are carried out using Tc. Mo has been mostly produced using U in research reactors. Because of recent shortages of Mo, a variety of alternative production methods of Mo or Tc were proposed. We proposed to produce Mo by Mo(n,2n) using neutrons from an accelerator. The route is characterized to produce a large quantity of high-quality Mo with a minimum level of radioactive wastes, since the cross section of the Mo(n,2n)Mo reaction at 11 En 18 MeV is large, and the cross sections of the (n,He), (n,n'p), and (n,p) reactions on Mo are quite small. Intense neutrons are available because of recent progresses of accelerator and target technologies. In the talk, we show our recent experimental results to obtain Tc with high-quality using Mo produced by Mo(n,2n).

Inspection of the steam generators for FBR Monju, 1; Summary and intention

Shiina, Akira; Yamaguchi, Toshihiko; Onizawa, Takahiro; Kurosawa, Norifumi; Takahashi, Kenji; Ibaki, Shoji

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Development of an ECT sensor for SG tubes at high temperatures

Shiina, Akira; Yamashita, Takuya; Watanabe, Toshio; Imai, Yoshiyuki*; Ono, Koichi*

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English