少量燃料デブリの構外輸送に向けたA型輸送容器の適用性評価

坂本 雅洋; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; Riyana E. S.; 溝上 暢人*; 溝上 伸也*

JAEA-Research 2024-017, 14 Pages, 2025/03

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東京電力ホールディングス株式会社福島第一原子力発電所では、2号機から燃料デブリの試験的取り出しを行い、回収物を構外輸送し茨城地区で分析することが計画されている。取り出された燃料デブリの分析結果は、将来的な燃料デブリ管理の各工程(取り出し、収納、移送、保管等)の検討にフィードバックされ、必要な技術開発に活用することが期待されている。試験的取り出しでサンプリングされる燃料デブリは数グラム程度が予定されており、その後、段階的に取り出し規模を拡大させていくことになる。試験的取り出しにおいては、構外輸送に係る関係法令に則って事前に合理的な輸送容器を検討することが必要になる。本報では物質組成や性状が不明瞭な燃料デブリ回収物の安全評価に資するため、少量燃料デブリの構外輸送に向けたA型輸送容器の適用性評価を行った。

Development of a theoretical scaling factor method for the inventory estimation of difficult-to-measure nuclide Cs-135 in fuel debris and radioactive wastes

坂本 雅洋; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; Riyana E. S.; 金子 純一*; 溝上 暢人*; 溝上 伸也*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 10 Pages, 2025/00

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2025.2478926

In this paper, we propose a new nuclide inventory estimation method based on computational methods, called a "theoretical scaling factor method" for difficult-to-measure (DTM) nuclides in fuel debris and radioactive wastes. The theoretical scaling factor method provides a method similar to a conventional scaling factor method. The theoretical scaling factor method, however, does not require performing many measurements to obtain correlations between a key nuclide which is easy-to-measure and a DTM nuclide. Instead of actual analytical measurements, the results of theoretical calculations are used. A correlation equation between the key nuclide and the DTM nuclide is created based on the results of theoretical calculations, and the DTM nuclide is deterministically estimated using the measurement value of the key nuclide only. In this paper, we selected Cs-135 as the DTM nuclide and Cs-137 as the key nuclide. Cs-135 has a long half-life of 2.310 years and is one of the important fission products in the safety evaluation for the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste, because it dissolves and migrates in groundwater easily. We confirmed the validity of the proposed method using measured data of Cs-137 and Cs-135 on radioactive wastes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) accident obtained by many researchers. It can be used as a rational and efficient technology to reduce the analysis costs of various types of fuel debris and radioactive waste present at 1F.

Characterization of bremsstrahlung and -rays of fuel debris

松村 太伊知; 奥村 啓介; 藤田 学*; 坂本 雅洋; 寺島 顕一; Riyana, E. S.

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 199, p.110298_1 - 110298_8, 2022/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110298

The characterization of bremsstrahlung and -rays from fuel debris differs from that of spent fuels evaluated to date, due to factors such as material composition and release of volatile fission products. In this work, in order to clarify the conditions under which the effect of bremsstrahlung compared to the total photons (bremsstrahlung and -rays) in fuel debris is maximized, the average energies and dose rates from the energy spectra of bremsstrahlung and -rays on the fuel debris surface were obtained using a Monte Carlo simulation. In the simulation, the average energies and dose rates were evaluated with consideration of the composition, size, fission product release, and retrieval time of the fuel debris. The simulation showed that the composition with the largest amount of change to the average total photons energy caused by bremsstrahlung was the molten fuel debris, and the composition with the maximum fraction of bremsstrahlung in the dose rate was the UO. The maximum value of the fraction of bremsstrahlung in the dose rate was evaluated to be about 17%. This work is expected to contribute to the prediction of the radiation characteristics of the fuel debris that will be retrieved from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the near future.

Gamma detector response simulation inside the pedestal of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Riyana, E. S.; 奥村 啓介; 寺島 顕一; 松村 太伊知; 坂本 雅洋

Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 7(3), p.19-00543_1 - 19-00543_8, 2020/06

https://doi.org/10.1299/mej.19-00543

Prediction of the fuel debris location and distribution inside the primary containment vessel (PCV) of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important to decide further decommissioning step and strategy. The radiation measurements in the past internal investigations have not yet provided enough information to predict fuel debris location and its distribution inside PCV. To support further measurement efforts, we simulate the detector response inside the PCV. The calculation result could provide a base on deciding suitable detector systems to assist the efforts on searching, localizing and defining distributions of the fuel debris.

Preliminary study of neutron intensity and spectrum of various fuel debris

松村 太伊知; 奥村 啓介; 坂本 雅洋; 寺島 顕一; Riyana E. S.; 近藤 千博*

no journal, , 

Retrieving objects with a small amount, such as a few grams, will begin soon at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station as the start of decommissioning process. The retrieved objects will be sorted as fuel debris and others for reducing the amount of long-time storage. Since the fuel debris emits neutrons, the knowledge of emitted neutron features is necessary for the design of neutron detectors. For this purpose, we estimated the number and energy spectra of (, ) and the spontaneous fission neutrons emitted from 1 g of fuel debris by calculation using the SOURCES 4C code. The calculations were performed for five types of fuel debris, according to the elapsed time from the accident, burnup, and fuel type. The results showed that the average neutron energy is 2 MeV regardless of the fuel debris type, however, the intensity changed four orders of magnitude according to the fuel debris type.

Preliminary study on nuclear materials imaging in fuel debris from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station using a neutron pinhole camera

Riyana E. S.; 坂本 雅洋; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫

no journal, , 

Information on the quantity of nuclear materials in fuel debris is crucial in screening and categorizing the fuel debris for storage consideration and quantity reduction. However, the types of materials (U, Pu, steel, Zr, concrete, etc.), physical form, chemical form, and density involved in the fuel debris may have a wide variety, and it is difficult to quantify nuclear materials inside it. Since most neutron emitters are actinides (such as U, Pu, and Cm) and non-volatile, the distribution of those neutron sources also represents the distribution of nuclear materials in fuel debris. We propose a method to observe nuclear materials distribution in fuel debris by acquiring spatial distribution of neutron sources using a neutron pinhole camera.

Depletion calculation of subcritical system with consideration of spontaneous fission reaction

Riyana, E. S.; 奥村 啓介; 坂本 雅洋; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一

no journal, , 

We enabled to consider the spontaneous fission reaction in subcritical neutron multiplying system by modifying the OpenMC depletion calculation code version 0.11. With the code, it is possible to estimate the quantity of short half-life fission products in the subcritical system. As a demonstration and fuel debris storage preliminary study, the code was applied to the fuel debris storage canister filled with nuclear materials and spontaneous fission nuclides. As a result, the ability was successfully shown to provide the information on short half-life fission products over time and to provide the relationship between the activity ratio of 88Kr-to-135Xe and effective neutron multiplication factor.

東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の全炉心3次元核種インベントリ計算,2; 計算手法と2号機に対する結果

坂本 雅洋; 奥村 啓介; 多田 健一; 西原 健司; 溝上 伸也*; 溝上 暢人*; 三木 陽介*; 金子 誠司*

no journal, , 

本発表では「東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の全炉心3次元核種インベントリ計算」のシリーズ発表の第2報として、全炉心3次元核種インベントリ計算手法の概要と、本手法を用いて評価した福島第一原子力発電所(1F)2号機の結果について報告する。本計算では、実際の燃料集合体仕様と実機運転管理データに基づき、BWR特有の炉心軸方向ボイド率分布や比出力の時間変化、並びに初期組成を詳細に考慮した炉内の3次元全13,152領域(燃料集合体数548軸方向分割数24)に対し、約1,600核種のインベントリデータ(重量や放射能量等)を取得した。この核種インベントリデータには、燃料集合体中に含まれる微量不純物の放射化物(Co-60やC-14等)も含まれる。また、従来のORIGEN計算では正確な評価が困難であった可燃性毒物入り燃料棒中のGd同位体核種も考慮することができる。

炉内核種インベントリの再評価; 事故直前における詳細な3次元核種インベントリデータの開発

坂本 雅洋; 奥村 啓介

no journal, , 

本報は、東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故直前における13号機の炉内核種インベントリ再評価研究の概要について紹介するものである。

Correlation between the canisters criticality and activity ratio of short-half-life noble-gas fission products under various fuel debris material compositions

Riyana, E. S.; 坂本 雅洋; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; 奥村 啓介

no journal, , 

We investigated the possibility of estimating the effective neutron multiplication factor (k) of the fuel-debris canister using remote gas-radioactivity measurement. The fuel-debris compositions inside a canister may vary and depend on the fuel-debris location inside the primary containment vessel and fuel-debris removal process. Our calculation result demonstrates the correlation between k and the activity ratio of Kr-to-Xe for the various fuel debris material conditions such as fuel burn-up degree before the accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Stations (1F), canister filling rate, water fraction, and fuel-debris type.