Investigation of sorption behavior of Cs in a river-sea system boundary area after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

高田 兵衛*; 脇山 義史*; 和田 敏裕*; 平尾 茂一*; 青野 辰雄*; 中西 貴宏; 御園生 敏治; 尻引 武彦; 青山 道夫*

Marine Chemistry, 262, p.104384_1 - 104384_6, 2024/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2024.104384

The radiocesium (Cs) distribution between dissolved and particulate phases was examined in river water and coastal seawater as a function of the Cs sorption behavior on suspended particles. Dissolved Cs activity concentrations in the Tomioka River (salinity 0.1) and in coastal seawater at Tomioka fishery port (salinity 30), Fukushima Prefecture, from June 2019 to October 2021 were 3.6-20 Bq/m (geometric mean 11 Bq/m) and 2.4-86 Bq/m (13 Bq/m), respectively. Although the suspended particle concentration was lower in the river (0.2-44 mg/L; geometric mean 2 mg/L) than in seawater (0.8-24 mg/L; 6.4 mg/L), the mean Cs activity on suspended particles was 11,000 Bq/kg-dry in the river versus 3,200 Bq/kg-dry in seawater. Proportions of ion-exchangeable, organically bound, and refractory fractions of Cs on suspended particles were determined by sequential extraction. The ion-exchangeable fraction accounted for 0.3-2.0% (mean 1.2%) and 0.4-1.3% (0.8%) at the river and port sites, respectively. The organically bound fraction accounted for 0.3-4.8% (1.8%) and 0.1-5.5% (2.1%) at the river and port sites, respectively. In both areas, the refractory fraction accounted for 90% of Cs. Unexpectedly, the ion-exchangeable fraction did not differ between the river and port sites, and the percentage at the river site did not vary during the sampling period. Therefore, the ion-exchangeable fraction in the river's lower reach was originally low or had decreased before the particles arrived there. The small labile Cs fraction on suspended particles indicates that the mobility of radiocesium to marine biota in this coastal region is low.

Study of the and shell gap for Ti and V by the first high-precision multireflection time-of-flight mass measurements at BigRIPS-SLOWRI

飯村 俊*; Rosenbusch, M.*; 高峰 愛子*; 角田 佑介*; 和田 道治*; Chen, S.*; Hou, D. S.*; Xian, W.*; 石山 博恒*; Yan, S.*; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 130(1), p.012501_1 - 012501_6, 2023/01

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.012501

The atomic masses of Sc, Ti, and V have been determined using the high-precision multireflection time-of-flight technique. The radioisotopes have been produced at RIKEN's Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) and delivered to the novel designed gas cell and multireflection system, which has been recently commissioned downstream of the ZeroDegree spectrometer following the BigRIPS separator. For Ti and V, the mass uncertainties have been reduced down to the order of 10 keV, shedding new light on the shell effect in Ti and V isotopes by the first high-precision mass measurements of the critical species Ti and V. With the new precision achieved, we reveal the nonexistence of the empirical two-neutron shell gaps for Ti and V, and the enhanced energy gap above the occupied p orbit is identified as a feature unique to Ca. We perform new Monte Carlo shell model calculations including the d and g orbits and compare the results with conventional shell model calculations, which exclude the g and the d orbits. The comparison indicates that the shell gap reduction in Ti is related to a partial occupation of the higher orbitals for the outer two valence neutrons at .

Beta decay of the axially asymmetric ground state of Re

渡邉 寛*; 渡辺 裕*; 平山 賀一*; Andreyev, A. N.; 橋本 尚志*; Kondev, F. G.*; Lane, G. J.*; Litvinov, Yu. A.*; Liu, J. J.*; 宮武 宇也*; et al.

Physics Letters B, 814, p.136088_1 - 136088_6, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136088

The decay of Re, which lies near the boundary between the regions of predicted prolate and oblate deformations, has been investigated using the KEK Isotope Separation System (KISS) in RIKEN Nishina Center. The ground state of Re has been assigned = based on the observed feedings and deduced log values towards the and states in Os, which is known as a typical -soft nucleus. The shape transition from axial symmetry to axial asymmetry in the Re isotopes is discussed from the viewpoint of single-particle structure using the nuclear Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model.

An Experimental setup for creating and imaging He excimer cluster tracers in superfluid helium-4 via neutron-He absorption reaction

Sonnenschein, V.*; 辻 義之*; 國立 將真*; 久保 渉*; 鈴木 颯*; 富田 英生*; 鬼柳 善明*; 井口 哲夫*; 松下 琢*; 和田 信雄*; et al.

Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(3), p.033318_1 - 033318_12, 2020/03

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5130919

For the purpose of future visualization of the flow field in superfluid helium-4, clusters of the triplet state excimer He are generated along the micro-scale recoil tracks of the neutron-absorption reaction n + He T + p. This reaction is induced by neutron irradiation of the He fraction contained in natural isotopic abundance liquid helium with neutron beams either from the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (J-PARC)/Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility or from the Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science. These He clusters are expected to be ideal tracers of the normal-fluid component in superfluid helium with several advantageous properties. Evidence of the excimer generation is inferred by detection of laser induced fluorescence emitted from the He clusters excited by a purpose-built short pulse gain-switched titanium:sapphire (Ti:sa) laser operating at a wavelength of 905 nm. The setup and performance characteristics of the laser system including the Ti:sa and two continuous wave re-pumping lasers are described. Detection at the fluorescence wavelength of 640 nm is performed by using optical bandpass filtered photomultiplier tubes (PMT). Electrical noise in the PMT acquisition traces could successfully be suppressed by post-processing with a simple algorithm. Despite other laser-related backgrounds, the excimer was clearly identified by its fluorescence decay characteristics. Production of the excimer was found to be proportional to the neutron flux, adjusted via insertion of different collimators into the neutron beam. These observations suggest that the apparatus we constructed does function in the expected manner and, therefore, has the potential for groundbreaking turbulence research with superfluid helium.

First direct mass measurements of nuclides around = 100 with a multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph

伊藤 由太*; Schury, P.*; 和田 道治*; 新井 郁也*; 羽場 宏光*; 平山 賀一*; 石澤 倫*; 加治 大哉*; 木村 創大*; 小浦 寛之; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 120(15), p.152501_1 - 152501_6, 2018/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.152501

冷たい核融合反応および熱い融合反応によって生成した変形閉殻中性子数152の近傍に位置する原子核Es, Fm、および超フェルミウム原子核Md, Noの質量の直接測定を、多反射時間飛行質量分析装置(MR-TOF)を用いて実施した。EsおよびMdの質量測定は世界で初めての成果である。さらにMdの質量を崩壊連鎖のアンカーポイントとして用いてBhおよびMtまでの重い原子核の質量を決定した。これらの新測定された質量を理論質量計算と比較し、巨視的・微視的模型の予測値と良い一致が見られることを示した。近接する3つの質量値から求められる経験的殻ギャップエネルギーを今回の質量値から求め、MdおよびLrに対する変形閉殻中性子数の存在を裏付ける結果を得た。

First online multireflection time-of-flight mass measurements of isobar chains produced by fusion-evaporation reactions; Toward identification of superheavy elements via mass spectroscopy

Schury, P.*; 和田 道治*; 伊藤 由太*; 加治 大哉*; 新井 郁也*; MacCormick, M.*; Murray, I.*; 羽場 宏光*; Jeong, S.*; 木村 創大*; et al.

Physical Review C, 95(1), p.011305_1 - 011305_6, 2017/01

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.011305

多反射時間飛行質量分析装置を理化学研究所設置の気体充填型反跳分離装置-II型(GARIS-II)と連結したガスセルに配置し、崩壊連鎖を伴う重原子核の質量の直接測定を実施した。融合-蒸発反応で生成された原子核をGARIS-IIを用いて分離し、ヘリウムガスセルで止めて目的の原子核を捕集した。本実験でFr-Rn-At-Po, Fr-Rn-At-Po-Bi及びFr-Rn-Atの3つの同重体鎖の時間飛行スペクトルが観測された。その結果、Fr, Rn、そしてAtの原子質量値が精密に決定された、今回の解析において、Bi, Po, Rn、そしてAtの同定は10個以下という少量のイオン数でなされた。この成果は 次のステップとして実施する予定である(生成量が極少量の)超重元素イオンの質量分析につながる成果となる。

Measurement of non-condensable gas in a PWR small-break LOCA simulation test with LSTF for OECD/NEA ROSA project and RELAP5 post-test analysis

竹田 武司; 大和田 明彦; 中村 秀夫

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 51, p.112 - 121, 2013/11

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2013.07.007

An OECD/NEA ROSA Project experiment was conducted simulating a PWR 0.5% cold leg small-break LOCA with steam generator (SG) secondary-side depressurization as an accident management measure to clarify such complex phenomena as non-uniform flow among the SG U-tubes under natural circulation (NC) with air as non-condensable gas. The gas concentration was measured at the SG outlet plenum by using a gas measurement device to measure oxygen concentration in steam-gas mixture that is developed employing a Zirconia sensor. Non-uniform flow behaviors were observed in the SG U-tubes with non-condensable gas ingress. Air concentration in steam-gas mixture was estimated to be about 40-50% at the SG outlet plena after the U-tube downflow side became empty of liquid. Post-test analysis by RELAP5/MOD3.2.1.2 code revealed that the code underpredicts the primary pressure a bit after the gas inflow with some discrepancies in the SG U-tube liquid level and the NC mass flow rate.

Tolerance of anhydrobiotic eggs of the tardigrade to extreme environments

堀川 大樹*; 山口 理美*; 坂下 哲哉; 田中 大介*; 浜田 信行*; 行弘 文子*; 桑原 宏和*; 國枝 武和*; 渡邊 匡彦*; 中原 雄一*; et al.

Astrobiology, 12(4), p.283 - 289, 2012/04

https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2011.0669

クマムシの乾燥休眠状態である卵の孵化率について、宇宙空間の特徴的な極限環境要因である放射線(Heイオン線),極低温,高真空に対する耐性を調べた。その結果、50%が孵化できない線量が約500Gy, -196度に曝されても70%以上が孵化し、610Paの高真空においた後でも孵化することができることがわかった。以上の結果から、宇宙空間であってもクマムシの耐性能力により、乾眠状態であるならば、存在できる可能性が示唆された。

Resonant magnetic X-ray diffraction study on successive metamagnetic transitions in TbB

稲見 俊哉; 大和田 謙二; 松田 康弘*; Ouyang, Z. W.*; 野尻 浩之*; 松村 武*; 奥山 大輔*; 村上 洋一*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 78(3), p.033707_1 - 033707_4, 2009/03

https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.78.033707

Resonant magnetic X-ray diffraction experiments on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice TbB were carried out under pulsed magnetic fields up to 30 T at 8 K. TbB exhibits a multi-step magnetization process above 16 T below about 20 K when magnetic fields are applied along the -axis. We examined the intensity of the 010 magnetic reflection as a function of magnetic field and found that the magnetization plateau phases are accompanied by large XY components of magnetic moments. We propose novel magnetic structures which consist of XY spins and Ising spins for the plateau phases. We also propose that energy level-crossing and its inherent degeneracy give rise to the successive met magnetic transitions in TbB.

Establishment of a rearing system of the extremotolerant tardigrade ; A New model animal for astrobiology

堀川 大樹*; 國枝 武和*; 阿部 渉*; 渡邊 匡彦*; 中原 雄一*; 行弘 文子*; 坂下 哲哉; 浜田 信行*; 和田 成一*; 舟山 知夫; et al.

Astrobiology, 8(3), p.549 - 556, 2008/06

https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2007.0139

クマムシの一種、ヨコヅナクマムシが藻類を餌として培養可能であることを報告する。本飼育条件にて、クマムシの平均寿命は35日、卵の孵化に要する時間が5.7日、孵化後9日で排卵した。本種の培養個体の乾眠能力を調査したところ、卵,幼体,成体のいずれの発生段階においても乾眠に移行できることがわかった。さらに、乾眠状態の成体は-196Cの超低温や100Cの高温,99.8%のアセトニトリル,1GPaの超高圧,5000GyのHeイオン照射にも耐えうることがわかった。以上の結果から、ヨコヅナクマムシは、宇宙生物学における多細胞生物研究のモデルとして有用であると考えられる。