Experimental verification of operational conditions for the 3rd glass melter in TVF

Asahi, Yoshimitsu; Fukuda, Shigeki; Shiramizu, Daiki; Miyata, Koshi; Tone, Masaya; Katsuoka, Nanako; Maeda, Yuta; Aoyama, Yusuke; Niitsuma, Koichi; Kobayashi, Hidekazu; et al.

JAEA-Technology 2024-024, 271 Pages, 2025/03

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A glass melter for the vitrification process of highly active liquid waste in the Tokai Reprocessing Plant, TVF's 3rd melter, was built, and the glass of 18 vitrified waste canisters in weight was melted and poured through a cold test operation. The molten glass surface was covered by a cold cap from feeding fiberglass cartridges saturated with non-radioactive simulant liquid waste as raw material, whose components are equivalent to actual waste. Differences in inherent characteristics of the thermal behavior between the 2nd and the 3rd melter due to the difference in design were considered to establish the procedure to control the new melter. The melter's condition was stabilized at a higher glass temperature and the cooling of 1 kW less in each of the two main electrodes, compared to the 2nd one. Under 39 kW joule heating of the main electrodes with 26 Nm3/h coolant flow rate, it showed the capability to finish heating the bottom furnace in 5 hours before pouring, 2 hours shorter than the 2nd melter. Measurements of the temperature distributions in molten glass and casing surface yielded data that is efficient for developing a simulation model. After Platinum Group Elements (PGE) concentration saturates in the molten glass, feeding raw material and discharging glass were suspended to examine a holding state, indicating PGE settling could retard. During the holding test, observation of the melting process of the cold cap declared that the surface was covered by a thin layer with almost non-fluidity. It will be a reason for choosing the no-slip condition of a fluid calculation, even in the hot-top condition. The investigation of PGE discharging behavior by analyzing the elemental composition of poured glass showed the accumulated PGE amount in the 3rd melter is small compared to the 2nd melter. Inspection of the melter inside after draining out concluded that there were neither significant residual glass nor refractory fragments.

Recent progress in the energy recovery linac project in Japan

Sakanaka, Shogo*; Akemoto, Mitsuo*; Aoto, Tomohiro*; Arakawa, Dai*; Asaoka, Seiji*; Enomoto, Atsushi*; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Furukawa, Kazuro*; Furuya, Takaaki*; Haga, Kaiichi*; et al.

Proceedings of 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '10) (Internet), p.2338 - 2340, 2010/05

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/IPAC10/papers/tupe091.pdf

Future synchrotron light source using a 5-GeV energy recovery linac (ERL) is under proposal by our Japanese collaboration team, and we are conducting R&D efforts for that. We are developing high-brightness DC photocathode guns, two types of cryomodules for both injector and main superconducting (SC) linacs, and 1.3 GHz high CW-power RF sources. We are also constructing the Compact ERL (cERL) for demonstrating the recirculation of low-emittance, high-current beams using above-mentioned critical technologies.

MeV- and sub-MeV-photon sources based on Compton backscattering at SPring-8 and KPSI-JAEA

Kawase, Keigo; Kando, Masaki; Hayakawa, Takehito; Daito, Izuru; Kondo, Shuji; Homma, Takayuki; Kameshima, Takashi; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Chen, L.*; Fukuda, Yuji; et al.

Nuclear Physics Review, 26(Suppl.), p.94 - 99, 2009/07

We constructed MeV- and sub-MeV-photon sources by means of Compton backscattering with a laser light and an electron beam at SPring-8 and KPSI-JAEA. MeV-photon source consists of a continuous-wave optically-pumped far infrared laser and an 8-GeV stored electron beam. Sub-MeV-photon source consists of a Nd:YAG pulse-laser and an 150-MeV electron beam accelerated by a microtron. Both source have been succeeded backscattered photon generation. In this talk, I will present characteristics and future prospects of these photon sources.

ZnO as fast scintillators evaluated with Ni-like Ag laser

Furukawa, Yusuke*; Tanaka, Momoko; Murakami, Hidetoshi*; Saito, Shigeki*; Sarukura, Nobuhiko*; Nishikino, Masaharu; Yamatani, Hiroshi; Nishimura, Hiroaki*; Mima, Kunioki*; Kagamitani, Yuji*; et al.

Reza Kenkyu, 36(APLS), p.1028 - 1030, 2008/12

https://doi.org/10.2184/lsj.36.1028

Optical technologies in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) region have been receiving strong interests for the next generation lithography. Here we report properties of ZnO as scintillators in the EUV region, and to demonstrate the feasibility of using a Ni-like Ag EUV laser operated at 13.9-nm to evaluate these properties. The ZnO sample was irradiated with EUV laser pulses and the fluorescence was measured using a streak camera fitted with a spectrograph. A clear, excitonic, fluorescence peak was observed at around 380 nm with a decay lifetime of 3 ns. The prominent peak fluorescence is ideal for EUV detection and further applications including imaging.

Progress in R&D efforts on the energy recovery linac in Japan

Sakanaka, Shogo*; Ago, Tomonori*; Enomoto, Atsushi*; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Furukawa, Kazuro*; Furuya, Takaaki*; Haga, Kaiichi*; Harada, Kentaro*; Hiramatsu, Shigenori*; Honda, Toru*; et al.

Proceedings of 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC '08) (CD-ROM), p.205 - 207, 2008/06

Future synchrotron light sources based on the energy-recovery linacs (ERLs) are expected to be capable of producing super-brilliant and/or ultra-short pulses of synchrotron radiation. Our Japanese collaboration team is making efforts for realizing an ERL-based hard X-ray source. We report recent progress in our R&D efforts.

Hydrothermal method grown large-sized zinc oxide single crystal as fast scintillator for future extreme ultraviolet lithography

Tanaka, Momoko; Nishikino, Masaharu; Yamatani, Hiroshi; Nagashima, Keisuke; Kimura, Toyoaki; Furukawa, Yusuke*; Murakami, Hidetoshi*; Saito, Shigeki*; Sarukura, Nobuhiko*; Nishimura, Hiroaki*; et al.

Applied Physics Letters, 91(23), p.231117_1 - 231117_3, 2007/12

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2815920

The scintillation properties of a hydrothermal method grown zinc oxide (ZnO) crystal are evaluated for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) laser excitation at 13.9 nm wavelength. The exciton emission lifetime at around 380 nm is determined to be 1.1 ns, almost identical to ultraviolet laser excitation cases. This fast response time is sufficiently short for characterizing EUV lithography light sources having a few nanoseconds duration. The availability of large size ZnO crystal up to 3-inch is quite attractive for future lithography and imaging applications.

Status of RF system for the J-PARC linac

Chishiro, Etsuji; Hori, Toshihiko*; Kobayashi, Tetsuya; Suzuki, Hiroyuki*; Suganuma, Kazuaki; Yamazaki, Masayoshi*; Anami, Shozo*; Fang, Z.*; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Fukui, Yuji*; et al.

Proceedings of 2nd Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan and 30th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.236 - 238, 2005/07

no abstracts in English

Development of the J-PARC 324MHz klystron

Tezuka, Katsuhiko*; Miyake, Setsuo*; Sakamoto, Mitsunori*; Chishiro, Etsuji; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Kawamura, Masato*; Anami, Shozo*

Proceedings of 28th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.372 - 374, 2003/07

no abstracts in English

Effect of magnetism on phonon dispersion of SrFeAs via inelastic X-ray scattering

Murai, Naoki*; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Uchiyama, Hiroshi*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Ishikawa, Daisuke*; Kobayashi, Tatsuya*; Nakamura, Hiroki; Machida, Masahiko; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Miyasaka, Shigeki*; et al.

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no abstracts in English

Magneto-elastic coupling in detwinned Sr(FeCo)As by inelastic X-ray scattering

Murai, Naoki*; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Nakajima, Masamichi*; Kobayashi, Tatsuya*; Uchiyama, Hiroshi*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Ishikawa, Daisuke*; Nakamura, Hiroki; Machida, Masahiko; Miyasaka, Shigeki*; et al.

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