Emergent impedance due to antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics

Yamane, Yuta*; Nakane, Jotaro*; Araki, Yasufumi; Ieda, Junichi

Physical Review B, 113(1), p.014421_1 - 014421_7, 2026/01

https://doi.org/10.1103/kdrj-39s7

Integrated thermal power measurement in the modified STACY for the performance inspections

Araki, Shohei; Aizawa, Eiju; Murakami, Takahiko; Arakaki, Yu; Tada, Yuta; Kamikawa, Yutaka; Hasegawa, Kenta; Yoshikawa, Tomoki; Sumiya, Masato; Seki, Masakazu; et al.

Annals of Nuclear Energy, 217, p.111323_1 - 111323_8, 2025/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2025.111323

JAEA has modified the STACY from a homogeneous system using solution fuel to a heterogeneous system using fuel rods in order to obtain criticality characteristics of fuel debris. The modification of the STACY was completed in December 2023. A series of performance inspections were conducted for the start of experimental operations. A new thermal power calibration is required for the performance inspections in order to operate at less than 200 W, which is the permitted thermal power. However, the thermal power measurement method and calibration data used in the former STACY is no longer available due to the modification of the modified STACY. We measured the thermal power of the STACY using the activation method that was improved to adapt to the measurement condition and calibrated the power meter system. Since the positions where activation foils could be installed were very limited, the thermal power was evaluated using numerical calculations supplemented by experimental data. Neutron flux data at the positions of the activation foil was measured by the activation method. Neutron distribution in the core was calculated by the Monte Carlo code MVP. A response function of the activation foil was calculated using the PHITS. The uncertainty of the thermal power measurement was conservatively estimated to be about 15%. Four operations were conducted for the thermal power measurement. The power meter was calibrated by using three operational data and tested with the one operational data. It was found that the indicated value of the meter adjusted by the STACY before the modification work would tend to overestimate the actual output by about 40%. In addition, the current calibration was able to calibrate the meter to within 3% accuracy.

Solvent extraction behaviors of rhodium and palladium in nitric acid solutions using amide extractants

Ito, Kengo*; Morita, Misaki*; Araki, Yuta*; Kato, Chizu*; Fukutani, Satoshi*; Matsumura, Tatsuro; Fujii, Toshiyuki*

Solvent Extraction Research and Development, Japan, 32(1), p.53 - 62, 2025/00

https://doi.org/10.15261/serdj.32.53

Rhodium (Rh) and Palladium (Pd) in high-level radioactive waste are primarily fission products. This Study focused on understanding the extraction behavior of these platinum group elements (PGEs) using the novel extractants -hexaoctylnitriloacetamide (HONTA) and alkyl diamideamine (ADAAM). Both extractants showed affinity for Pd, with distribution coefficients significantly exceeding 1, demonstrating their effectiveness in Pd separation. In contrast, the distribution coefficients for Rh were consistently below 10 , indicating low extraction efficiency from nitric acid. However, by leveraging the salting-out effect with calcium nitrate hydrate, a distribution coefficient of 570 for Rh was achieved using HONTA. To overcome the difficult back-extraction of PGEs with HONTA, experiments were conducted using HEDTA and thiourea. Back-extraction with HEDTA in high-concentration nitric acid (2M) resulted in 90% extraction of Pd, while thiourea-based back-extraction with nitric acid yielded over 40% extraction for Rh, with the maximum of 62.7% achieved using hydrochloric acid.

Room-temperature flexible manipulation of the quantum-metric structure in a topological chiral antiferromagnet

Han, J.*; Uchimura, Tomohiro*; Araki, Yasufumi; Yoon, J.-Y.*; Takeuchi, Yutaro*; Yamane, Yuta*; Kanai, Shun*; Ieda, Junichi; Ohno, Hideo*; Fukami, Shunsuke*

Nature Physics, 20(7), p.1110 - 1117, 2024/07

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02476-2

Quantum metric and Berry curvature are two fundamental and distinct factors to describe the geometry of quantum eigenstates. While Berry curvature is known for playing crucial roles in several condensed-matter states, quantum metric, which was predicted to induce new classes of topological phenomena, has rarely been touched, particularly in an ambient circumstance. Using a topological chiral antiferromagnet MnSn adjacent to Pt, at room temperature, we successfully manipulate the quantum-metric structure of electronic states through its interplay with the nanoscale spin texture at the MnSn/Pt interface. This is manifested by a time-reversal-odd second-order Hall effect that is robust against extrinsic electron scattering, in contrast to any transport effects from the Berry curvature. We also verify the flexibility of controlling the quantum-metric structure, as the interacting spin texture can be tuned by moderate magnetic fields or by interface engineering via spin-orbit interactions. Our work paves a way for harnessing the quantum-metric structure to unveil emerging topological physics in practical environments and to build applicable nonlinear devices.

Spin-orbital short-range order on a honeycomb-based lattice

Nakatsuji, Satoru*; Kuga, Kentaro*; Kimura, Kenta*; Satake, Ryuta*; Katayama, Naoyuki*; Nishibori, Eiji*; Sawa, Hiroshi*; Ishii, Rieko*; Hagiwara, Masayuki*; Bridges, F.*; et al.

Science, 336(6081), p.559 - 563, 2012/05

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1212154

Frustrated magnetic materials can remain disordered to the lowest temperatures. Such is the case for BaCuSbO, which is magnetically anisotropic at the atomic scale but curiously isotropic on mesoscopic length and time scales. We find that the frustration on the triangular lattice is imprinted in a nanostructured honeycomb lattice of Cu ions that resists a coherent static Jahn-Teller distortion. The resulting two-dimensional random-bond spin-1/2 system on the honeycomb lattice has a broad spectrum of spin-dimer like excitations and low-energy spin degrees of freedom that retain.

Current status and evolution of nuclear fusion development; Aiming at the achievement of the nuclear fusion energy

Araki, Masanori; Kamada, Yutaka; Mori, Masahiro; Nishitani, Takeo

Denki Hyoron, 92(10), p.38 - 44, 2007/10

A general view of the current status and evolution of nuclear fusion research and development in JAEA is reviewed. Concretely, the outline is shown about the fruitful results of research that are obtaining mainly on an experimental device JT-60 concisely, and the international thermonuclear experimental reactor ITER project (design and technical R&D activities, and details for construction) as well as a Broader Approach Activities for aiming at the achievement of a DEMO reactor and of a nuclear fusion energy.

The JT-60 neutral beam injection system

Matsuda, Shinzaburo; Akiba, Masato; Araki, Masanori; Dairaku, Masayuki; ; Horiike, Hiroshi; Ito, Takao; ; Kawai, Mikito; Komata, Masao; et al.

Fusion Engineering and Design, 5, p.85 - 100, 1987/00

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-3796(87)90580-1

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Critical experiments on Iron-Loaded Core at the modified STACY

Araki, Shohei; Yoshikawa, Tomoki; Arakaki, Yu; Kamikawa, Yutaka; Hasegawa, Kenta; Tada, Yuta; Sumiya, Masato; Seki, Masakazu; Aizawa, Eiju; Ishii, Junichi; et al.

no journal, , 

In order to understand the criticality characteristics of the fuel debris generated by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, it is essential to obtain critical experiment data that includes reactor structural materials such as iron and concrete that are considered to be contained in the fuel debris. To gather such critical experiment data, JAEA had conducted a major modification of the critical assembly STACY, and the modified STACY achieved first criticality in March 2024. In this presentation, we will discuss the experiments conducted in the modified STACY, with a particular focus on iron, which is considered to have a significant impact on criticality safety due to its strong neutron absorption effect.

Modification of STACY for the study of criticality characteristics of fuel debris, 18; Thermal power calibration

Araki, Shohei; Murakami, Takahiko; Kamikawa, Yutaka; Arakaki, Yu; Tada, Yuta; Aizawa, Eiju; Ishii, Junichi; Seki, Masakazu; Izawa, Kazuhiko; Gunji, Satoshi

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We conducted thermal power measurements and thermal power calibration for a performance test in the modified STACY. The activation method was adopted in the thermal power measurements. The core for the measurements consisted of 253 fuel rods and a sample driver. The gold foils used for the activation foil method were installed in the sample driver. The operation was carried out twice, at 20-W and 50-W. The neutron flux in the core and the response of the gold foil were calculated using MVP and PHITS, respectively, with JENDL-5 as the nuclear data. In each measurement, the integrated power was 4.2-Wh and 8.9-Wh, respectively. The indicated power with default setting was found to be about 50% higher than the evaluated value.

The Study of highly sensitivity technique for sodium leak detection using laser resonance ionization mass spectrometry to improve fast reactor plant safety

Aoyama, Takafumi; Ito, Chikara; Araki, Yoshio; Naito, Hiroyuki; Iwata, Yoshihiro; Okazaki, Koki*; Harano, Hideki*; Watanabe, Kenichi*; Iguchi, Tetsuo*; Takegawa, Nobuyuki*; et al.

no journal, , 

   Patent publication (In Japanese)

no abstracts in English