Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2022

Kokubun, Yuji; Nakada, Akira; Seya, Natsumi; Koike, Yuko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Yamada, Ryohei*; Uchiyama, Rei; Yamashita, Daichi; Nagai, Shinji; et al.

JAEA-Review 2023-046, 164 Pages, 2024/03

JAEA-Review-2023-046.pdf:4.2MB

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories conducts environmental radiation monitoring around the reprocessing plant in accordance with the "Safety Regulations for Reprocessing Plant of JAEA, Part IV: Environmental Monitoring". This report summarizes the results of environmental radiation monitoring conducted during the period from April 2022 to March 2023 and the results of dose calculations for the surrounding public due to the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere and ocean. In the results of the above environmental radiation monitoring, many items were affected by radioactive materials emitted from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (changed to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. on April 1, 2016), which occurred in March 2011. Also included as appendices are an overview of the environmental monitoring plan, an overview of measurement methods, measurement results and their changes over time, meteorological statistics results, radioactive waste release status, and an evaluation of the data which deviated of the normal range.

Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2020

Nakada, Akira; Nakano, Masanao; Kanai, Katsuta; Seya, Natsumi; Nishimura, Shusaku; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Futagawa, Kazuo; Yamada, Ryohei; Uchiyama, Rei; et al.

JAEA-Review 2021-062, 163 Pages, 2022/02

JAEA-Review-2021-062.pdf:2.87MB

Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2020 to March 2021. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (the trade name was changed to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. on April 1, 2016) in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.

Radiation monitoring using manned helicopter around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the fiscal year 2013 (Contract research)

Sanada, Yukihisa; Nishizawa, Yukiyasu; Urabe, Yoshimi; Yamada, Tsutomu; Ishida, Mutsushi; Sato, Yoshiharu; Hirayama, Hirokatsu; Takamura, Yoshihide; Nishihara, Katsuya; Imura, Mitsuo; et al.

JAEA-Research 2014-012, 110 Pages, 2014/08

JAEA-Research-2014-012.pdf:169.17MB
JAEA-Research-2014-012(errata).pdf:0.27MB

By the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), caused by the East Japan earthquake and the following tsunami occurred on March 11, 2011, a large amount of radioactive materials was released from the NPP. This document was summarized in the results of the aerial radiation monitoring using the manned helicopter in the fiscal 2013.

Momentum-resolved charge excitations in high- cuprates studied by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

Ishii, Kenji; Hoesch, M.*; Inami, Toshiya; Kuzushita, Kaori*; Owada, Kenji; Tsubota, Masami; Murakami, Yoichi; Mizuki, Junichiro; Endo, Yasuo; Tsutsui, Kenji*; et al.

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 69(12), p.3118 - 3124, 2008/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2008.06.041

Doping Momentum dependence of charge dynamics in NdCeCuO (x=0, 0.075, and 0.15) studied by Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering

Ishii, Kenji; Tsutsui, Kenji*; Endo, Yasuo*; Toyama, Takami*; Maekawa, Sadamichi*; Hoesch, M.; Kuzushita, Kaori; Inami, Toshiya; Tsubota, Masami; Yamada, Kazuyoshi*; et al.

AIP Conference Proceedings 850, p.403 - 404, 2006/09

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2354756

We report a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) study of charge excitations in the electron-doped high- superconductor NdCeCuO. The intraband and interband excitations across the Fermi energy are separated for the first time by tuning the experimental conditions properly to measure charge excitations at low energy. A dispersion relation with -dependent width emerges clearly in the intraband excitation, while the intensity of the interband excitation is concentrated around 2 eV near the zone center. The experimental results are consistent with theoretical calculation of the RIXS spectra based on the Hubbard model.

Nuclidic mass formula on a spherical basis with an improved even-odd term

Koura, Hiroyuki; Tachibana, Takahiro*; Uno, Masahiro*; Yamada, Masami*

Progress of Theoretical Physics, 113(2), p.305 - 325, 2005/02

https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.113.305

A nuclidic mass formula composed of a gross term, an even-odd term and a shell term is presented as a revised version of the mass formula constructed by the present authors and published in 2000. The gross term has almost the same functional form as in the previous formula, but the parameter values in it are somewhat different. The even-odd term is treated more carefully, and a considerable improvement is brought about. The shell term is exactly the same as the previous one; it was obtained using spherical single-particle potentials and by treating the deformed nucleus as a superposition of spherical nuclei. The new mass formula is applicable to nuclei with 1 and 1. The root-mean-square deviation from experimental masses is 0.658 MeV, which is less than that of the previous mass formula, 0.680 MeV.

Post-spinel transition in MgSiO determined by high in situ X-ray diffractometry

Katsura, Tomoo*; Yamada, Hitoshi*; Shimmei, Toru*; Kubo, Atsushi*; Ono, Shigeaki*; Kanzaki, Masami*; Yoneda, Akira*; Walter, M. J.*; Ito, Eiji*; Urakawa, Satoru*; et al.

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 136(1-2), p.11 - 24, 2003/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9201(03)00019-0

no abstracts in English

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in strongly correlated electron systems

Ishii, Kenji; Tsutsui, Kenji*; Endo, Yasuo*; Toyama, Takami*; Inami, Toshiya; Owada, Kenji; Kuzushita, Kaori*; Hoesch, M.; Tsubota, Masami; Mizuki, Junichiro; et al.

no journal, , 

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering studies on high- superconductors NdCeCuO and YBaCuO are presented. In NdCuO and YBaCuO, which are Mott insulators, an excitation across the Mott gap is observed around 2 eV. The spectral weight of this excitation shifts to higher energy with increasing the momentum transfer and the dispersion of the excitation is larger along the direction than the direction. An intraband excitation in the upper Hubbard band emerges in the spectra of electron-doped NdCeCuO. As a function of the momentum transfer in the CuO plane, the excitation shifts to higher energy up to 2-2.5 eV at the zone boundary, accompanied by an increase of the spectral width. On the other hand, excitations from two inequivalent Cu sites in hole-doped YBaCuO are distinguished by the momentum dependence and the Mott gap of the CuO chain site is found to be much smaller than that of the CuO plane site.