Overhaul of the Primary cooling system heat exchanger in JRR-3

Uno, Yuki; Ouchi, Yasuhiro; Ouchi, Satoshi; Baba, Ryota; Kikuchi, Masanobu; Kawamata, Satoshi

JAEA-Technology 2021-046, 39 Pages, 2023/02

JAEA-Technology-2021-046.pdf:3.76MB

JRR-3 (Japan Research Reactor No.3) is a light water research reactor cooling pool type light water deceleration of low-enriched uranium up to 20MW thermal power. November 1990, begin to operation in modified that we are provided to users as a high neutron flux form reactor facility in various types of irradiation facilities and neutron beam experiment equipment. Currently, JRR-3 has completed the period of facility inspections, which had been extended due to the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and has been able to conformity to the New Regulatory Requirements. It has also resumed operation for the first time in about 10 years. FY 2017, overhauled the primary cooling heat exchanger No.1 and No.2 based on a maintenance plan. This is report for take advantage what inspection and maintenance of future about overhaul of the primary cooling system heat exchanger for collect of inspection records and performance.

Time-resolved soft X-ray imaging of femtosecond laser ablation process in metals

Tomita, Takuro*; Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Minami, Yasuo*; Takei, Ryota*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Takayoshi, Shodai*; Kaihori, Takeshi*; Morita, Toshimasa; et al.

Journal of Laser Micro/Nanoengineering, 9(2), p.137 - 142, 2014/06

https://doi.org/10.2961/jlmn.2014.02.0011

Femtosecond laser ablation processes on platinum, gold, and tungsten were observed by the single shot pump and probe reflective imaging using a soft X-ray laser probe. To avoid the timing error due to the jitter, we adopted a posteriori correction technique by simultaneous measurement of timing between the pump and probe pulses for every single shot, using a soft X-ray streak camera. A clear difference was found in the temporal behavior of the dynamical response of the soft X-ray reflectivity depending on the irradiated laser fluence in these three materials. On the other hand, the narrow dark rings were found in Pt and W, while an additional bright ring was found outside the dark disk in Au. Our result gives the experimental data comparable with various numerical simulations.

Observation of the nano-scale surface dynamics of femtosecond laser ablation by time-resolved soft X-ray imaging technique

Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Minami, Yasuo*; Takei, Ryota*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Takayoshi, Shodai*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Hatomi, Daiki*; et al.

Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.8849, p.88490E_1 - 88490E_6, 2013/09

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2022834

We have developed the pump and probe interferometer and reflective imaging technique of the metal surfaces during the femtosecond laser ablation by using the laser-driven soft X-ray laser at the wavelength of 13.9 nm. The pumping laser used for ablation was a Ti: Sapphire laser pulse with the duration of 80 fs pulse at a central wavelength of 795 nm, and had a gaussian spatial profile. By using the X-ray imaging technique, the time resolved image of nano-scaled ablation dynamics of the platinum and the gold pumped by a femtosecond laser pulse was obtained.

Direct measurement of the femto-second laser ablation dynamics by using the single-shot soft X-ray laser interferometer

Hasegawa, Noboru; Nishikino, Masaharu; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Suemoto, Toru; Tomita, Takuro*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Terakawa, Kota*; Minami, Yasuo*; Takei, Ryota*

no journal, , 

The dynamical processes of the laser-induced surface modifications such as laser ablation come to attract much attention for the micro processing by the ultra-short laser pulse. The soft X-ray laser (SXRL) is suitable for probing the initial process of the surface morphological changes, because it has the suitable wavelength (= 13.9 nm, penetration depth = 5 nm), short duration (= 7 ps) and large photon numbers (larger than 1e+10 photons/shot). In this study, we have developed the femto-second laser pump and soft X-ray laser probe system with the soft X-ray interferometer in order to observe the dynamical processes of the femto-second laser ablation. By using this system, we succeed to obtain the temporal evolution of the laser induced Pt surface. From this result, it was revealed that the expansion speed of the ablation front at the center (= 1500 m/s) of the ablation area in the initial stage of the ablation process.

Observation of femtosecond laser ablation of platinum target by soft X-ray laser interferometory

Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Takei, Ryota*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Suemoto, Toru

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Time-resolved observation of the femto-second laser ablation dynamics by using the plasma X-ray laser

Hasegawa, Noboru; Nishikino, Masaharu; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Suemoto, Toru; Tomita, Takuro*; Takei, Ryota*; Baba, Motoyoshi*

no journal, , 

The dynamical processes of the laser-induced surface modifications such as laser ablation come to attract much attention for the micro processing by the ultra-short laser pulse. The soft X-ray laser (SXRL) is suitable for probing the initial process of the surface morphological changes, because it has the suitable wavelength (= 13.9 nm, penetration depth = 5 nm), short duration (= 7 ps) and large photon numbers (larger than 1e+10 photons/shot). In this study, we have developed the femto-second laser pump and soft X-ray laser probe system with the soft X-ray interferometer in order to observe the dynamical processes of the femto-second laser ablation. By using this system, we measured the surface roughness and surface modifications of the laser induced metal surface. From this result, we succeeded to obtain the clear dependence for the material (Pt, Au, W) of the laser ablation dynamics.

Observation of the surface dynamics of femtosecond laser ablation by time-resolved soft X-ray imaging technique

Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru; Tomita, Takuro*; Minami, Yasuo*; Takei, Ryota*; Baba, Motoyoshi*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Takayoshi, Shodai*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; et al.

no journal, , 

We have developed the pump and probe interferometer and reflective imaging technique of the metal surfaces during the femtosecond laser ablation by using the laser-driven soft X-ray laser at the wavelength of 13.9 nm. The pumping laser used for the ablation was a Ti: Sapphire laser pulse with the duration of 80 fs pulse at a central wavelength of 795 nm, and had a gaussian spatial profile. By using the X-ray imaging technique, the time resolved image of nano-scaled ablation dynamics of the platinum, the gold, the tungsten were obtained. We have compared the plasma expansion measured by the X-ray interferometer with the ablated hole measured by the atomic force microscopy, and discussed the fluence dependence of the femtosecond laser ablation.

Observation of the femto-second laser ablation process on metal surface using the soft X-ray laser probe

Yamagiwa, Mitsuru; Hasegawa, Noboru; Nishikino, Masaharu; Tomita, Takuro*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Hatomi, Daiki*; Ito, Atsushi*; Minami, Yasuo*; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Observation of the femto-second laser ablation dynamics of metals by using the soft X-ray probe, 1

Hasegawa, Noboru; Nishikino, Masaharu; Tomita, Takuro*; Eyama, Tsuyoshi*; Kakimoto, Naoya*; Hatomi, Daiki*; Onishi, Naofumi*; Ito, Atsushi*; Minami, Yasuo*; Takei, Ryota*; et al.

no journal, , 

We have observed the temporal evolution of the femto-second laser irradiated metal surface by using the soft X-ray laser probe at the wavelength of 13.9 nm. We have succeeded to obtain the temporal evolution of the ablation front from the result of the soft X-ray reflective imaging and interferogram. We will report about "the Newton's ring generated between the ablation front and the metal surface" and "the ablation front dynamics observed by the soft X-ray shadow graph".

Development of a vane-shaped electrode Paul trap for decay spectroscopy of trapped radioactive ions

Uchibaba, Yuta; Ito, Yuta; Sato, Tetsuya; Aoki, Ryota; Asai, Masato; Gong, G.; Miyachi, Yuta*; Nagame, Yuichiro*; Natori, Hina*; Tsukada, Kazuaki

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In anticipation of precise mass measurement of superheavy nuclei with an atomic number of 104 or more, we are developing an ion trap for the purpose of improving the accuracy of mass determination by prior identification of ions to be measured by decay spectroscopy and correlation with decay information. In order to capture radiation from trapped unstable nuclear ions at a large solid angle, we have developed a vane electrode type ion trap using a thin plate-like vane electrode. As an indication of performance, the trap lifetime and accumulated charge were evaluated in comparison with a circular electrode type ion trap.