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Sono, Hiroki; Tsukamoto, Michio; Aizawa, Eiju; Takeuchi, Masaki; Fukaya, Yuji; Iseda, Hirokatsu*; Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Sakuraba, Koichi; Tonoike, Kotaro
UTNL-R-0446, p.3_1 - 3_10, 2005/03
This report describes an investigation and countermeasures of the unexpected reactor shutdown of the TRACY facility at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute on June 17, 2004, caused by a malfunction of a safety rod of the facility. As a result of the investigation, the principal cause of the malfunction was ascribed to a drop in attraction of a binding magnet for the safety rod by a small piece of a foreign material. The following countermeasures were taken against its recurrence: prevention of incidence of foreign materials, reduction of the chance of intrusion of foreign materials into devices, and certain detection of foreign materials. This lesson learned through the experience is expected to be shared with the staffs concerned in reactor operation and maintenance.
Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Ono, Akio; Aizawa, Eiju
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(5), p.499 - 505, 2002/05
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:29.29(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Aizawa, Eiju; Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Sakuraba, Koichi; Tsukamoto, Michio; Sugawara, Susumu; Takeuchi, Masaki*; Miyauchi, Masakatsu; Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Ono, Akio
JAERI-Tech 2002-031, 120 Pages, 2002/03
TRACY (Transient Experiment Critical Facility) in NUCEF (Nuclear Safety Research Facility) is the pulse-type critical facility using uranyl nitrate solution which can carry out various supercritical experiments changing reactivity addition up to 3$.TRACY achieved its first criticality on 20th December 1995,and transient operations have been conducted Since1996.This report summarizes the operation data of 176 experiments from the first criticality to FY2000.
Nakajima, Ken; Yamane, Yuichi; Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Aizawa, Eiju; Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Miyoshi, Yoshinori
JAERI-Data/Code 2002-007, 123 Pages, 2002/03
no abstracts in English
Nakajima, Ken; Yamane, Yuichi; Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Aizawa, Eiju; Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Miyoshi, Yoshinori
JAERI-Data/Code 2002-006, 176 Pages, 2002/03
no abstracts in English
Nakajima, Ken; Yamane, Yuichi; Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Aizawa, Eiju; Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Miyoshi, Yoshinori
JAERI-Data/Code 2002-005, 158 Pages, 2002/03
no abstracts in English
Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Ono, Akio; Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Aizawa, Eiju; Yokoyama, Mitsutaka*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 38(8), p.591 - 599, 2001/08
Times Cited Count:6 Percentile:44.13(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Ogawa, Kazuhiko; Morita, Toshio*; Yanagisawa, Hiroshi; Aizawa, Eiju; Sakuraba, Koichi; Sugawara, Susumu; Ono, Akio
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 37(12), p.1088 - 1097, 2000/12
no abstracts in English
Aizawa, Eiju; Yamane, Yuichi
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TRACY (Transient experiment critical facility) is a reactor to perform supercritical experiments using low-enriched uranyl nitrate aqueous solution. In a supercritical experiment, up to 3$ of reactivity is inserted by withdrawing a control rod, called "transient rod," from the center of the core tank or feeding fuel solution into the core tank.Since 1996, TRACY supercritical experiments have been performed and transient data such as power, temperature and pressure have been measured and evaluated. Furthermore, we have developed a system to observe solution behavior under criticality accident condition for the elucidation of transient events. Those experiences we have gained through the TRACY experiments will be presented at the lecture in the 46th reactor physics summer seminar of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan.