Summary results of subsidy program for the "Project of Decommissioning and Contaminated Water Management (Development of Analysis and Estimation Technology for Characterization of Fuel Debris (Development of Technologies for Enhanced Analysis Accuracy and Thermal Behavior Estimation of Fuel Debris))"

Koyama, Shinichi; Nakagiri, Toshio; Osaka, Masahiko; Yoshida, Hiroyuki; Kurata, Masaki; Ikeuchi, Hirotomo; Maeda, Koji; Sasaki, Shinji; Onishi, Takashi; Takano, Masahide; et al.

Hairo, Osensui Taisaku jigyo jimukyoku Homu Peji (Internet), 144 Pages, 2021/08

https://dccc-program.jp/3797

JAEA performed the subsidy program for the "Project of Decommissioning and Contaminated Water Management (Development of Analysis and Estimation Technology for Characterization of Fuel Debris (Development of Technologies for Enhanced Analysis Accuracy and Thermal Behavior Estimation of Fuel Debris))" in 2020JFY. This presentation summarized briefly the results of the project, which will be available shortly on the website of Management Office for the Project of Decommissioning and Contaminated Water Management.

Evaluation of the relative biological effectiveness of carbon ion beams in the cerebellum using the rat organotypic slice culture system

Yoshida, Yukari*; Suzuki, Yoshiyuki*; Al-Jahdari, W. S.*; Hamada, Nobuyuki*; Funayama, Tomoo; Shirai, Katsuyuki*; Kato, Hiroyuki*; Sakashita, Tetsuya; Kobayashi, Yasuhiko; Nakano, Takashi*

Journal of Radiation Research, 53(1), p.87 - 92, 2012/02

https://doi.org/10.1269/jrr.11139A

Development of a thermal-hydraulics experimental system for high Tc superconductors cooled by liquid hydrogen

Tatsumoto, Hideki; Shirai, Yasuyuki*; Shiotsu, Masahiro*; Hata, Koichi*; Kobayashi, Hiroaki*; Naruo, Yoshihiro*; Inatani, Yoshifumi*; Kato, Takashi; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Kinoshita, Katsuhiro*

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 234, p.032056_1 - 032056_9, 2010/07

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/234/3/032056

A thermal-hydraulics experimental system of liquid hydrogen was developed in order to investigate the forced flow heat transfer characteristics in the various cooling channels for wide ranges of subcoolings, flow velocities, and pressures up to supercritical. Forced flow through the channel is produced by adjusting the pressure difference between the tanks and the valve opening. The mass flow rate is measured from the weight change of the main tank. For the explosion protection, electrical equipments are covered with a nitrogen gas blanket layer and a remote control system has been established. The first cryogenic performance tests have confirmed that the experimental system has satisfied with the required performances. The forced convection heat transfer characteristics have been successfully measured at the pressure of 0.7 MPa for various flow velocities.

Forced convection heat transfer of subcooled liquid hydrogen in a small tube

Tatsumoto, Hideki; Shirai, Yasuyuki*; Shiotsu, Masahiro*; Hata, Koichi*; Kobayashi, Hiroaki*; Naruo, Yoshihiro*; Inatani, Yoshifumi*; Kato, Takashi; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Kinoshita, Katsuhiro*

Proceedings of International Cryogenic Engineering Conference 23 (ICEC-23) and International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2010 (ICMC 2010), p.491 - 496, 2010/07

Forced flow heat transfers of liquid hydrogen through a vertical tube with the diameter, d, of 3.0 mm were measured at the pressure of 0.7 MPa for various inlet temperatures and flow velocities. The non-boiling heat transfer coefficients agreed with those by the Dittus-Boelter correlation. The heat fluxes at the inception of boiling and the departure from nucleate boiling (DNB) heat fluxes were higher for higher flow velocity and subcooling. The DNB heat fluxes were higher for larger diameter, compared with those for = 6.0 mm. The effect of tube diameter and subcooling on the DNB heat flux was clarified.

Forced convection heat transfer of nitrogen at supercritical pressure

Tatsumoto, Hideki; Shirai, Yasuyuki*; Hata, Koichi*; Kato, Takashi; Shiotsu, Masahiro*

Proceedings of International Cryogenic Engineering Conference 22 (ICEC-22) and International Cryogenic Materials Conference 20 (ICMC 2008), p.383 - 388, 2009/00

Forced flow heat transfers of supercritical nitrogen in a horizontal tube was measured for wide range of inlet temperature and flow velocity conditions. The heat transfer coefficients agreed well with those predicted by Dittus-Boelter correlation for the surface temperature lower than pseudo-critical temperature, Tc'. When the surface temperature exceeds Tc', they become lower than those by the correlation. The heat transfer coefficients at a certain wall temperature became lower with decrease in Reynolds number (Re) down to about 8000. Further decrease in Re did not affect the heat transfer coefficients. The lowest limits agreed with those obtained for natural convection.

Numerical analysis of forced convection heat transfer of subcooled liquid nitrogen

Tatsumoto, Hideki; Shirai, Yasuyuki*; Hata, Koichi*; Kato, Takashi; Aso, Tomokazu; Otsu, Kiichi; Shiotsu, Masahiro*

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 18(2), p.1483 - 1486, 2008/06

https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2008.921981

The knowledge of forced flow heat transfer of liquid hydrogen is important for cooling design of hydrogen moderator system and HTS superconducting magnets such as MgB magnet. The use of a CFD code is necessary to understand the heat transport phenomena in the practical cooling channel of the magnets. As a first step of the study, forced flow heat transfer of liquid nitrogen in a horizontal tube, instead of liquid hydrogen, was analyzed in this work by using a CFD code. The solutions were compared with the authors' experimental data under the corresponding conditions. The solutions obtained by using the low Reynolds number model as a turbulent model agreed well with the experimental data for the Reynolds numbers () higher than 1. For 1, the solutions become lower than the experimental data. The heat transport mechanism in the horizontal tube was also clarified by the analyses.

Forced convection heat transfer of subcooled liquid nitrogen in horizontal tube

Tatsumoto, Hideki; Shirai, Yasuyuki*; Hata, Koichi*; Kato, Takashi; Shiotsu, Masahiro*

AIP Conference Proceedings 985, p.665 - 672, 2008/03

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2908652

The knowledge of forced convection heat transfer of liquid hydrogen is important for the cooling design of a material of a cold neutron moderator. An experimental apparatus that obtain forced flow without a pump was developed. As a first step of the study, the forced flow heat transfer of subcooled liquid nitrogen in a horizontal tube, instead of liquid hydrogen, was measured for the pressures (0.3 to 2.5 MPa). The inlet temperature was varied from 78 K to around its saturation temperature. The flow velocity was varied from 0.1 to 7 m/s. The heat transfer coefficients in non boiling region and the DNB heat fluxes were higher for higher flow velocity and higher subcooling. The measured values of Nu/Pr in non-boiling region were proportional to Re to the power of 0.8. With decrease in Re, they approached a constant value corresponding to that in a pool of liquid nitrogen. The correlation of DNB derived here can describe the experimental data within 15% difference was derived.

Laser prepulse dependency of proton-energy distributions in ultraintense laser-foil interactions with an online time-of-flight technique

Yogo, Akifumi; Daido, Hiroyuki; Fukumi, Atsushi*; Li, Z.*; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Nakamura, Shu*; Iwashita, Yoshihisa*; Shirai, Toshiyuki*; et al.

Physics of Plasmas, 14(4), p.043104_1 - 043104_6, 2007/04

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2721066

Fast protons are observed by a newly-developed time-of-flight spectrometer, which provides proton-energy distributions immediately after the irradiation of a laser pulse having an intensity of W/cm onto a 5-m-thick copper foil. The maximum proton energy is found to increase when the intensity of a fs-prepulse arriving 9 ns before the main pulse increases from 10 to 10 W/cm. Interferometric measurement indicates that the preformed-plasma expansion at the front surface is smaller than 15 m, which corresponds to the spatial resolution of the diagnostics. This sharp gradient of the plasma makes a beneficial effect on increasing the absorption efficiency of the main-pulse energy, resulting in the increase in the proton energy. This is supported by the result that the X-ray intensity from the laser plasma clearly increases with the prepulse intensity.

Development of laser driven proton sources and their applications

Daido, Hiroyuki; Sagisaka, Akito; Ogura, Koichi; Orimo, Satoshi; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Mori, Michiaki; Ma, J.-L.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Kanazawa, Shuhei; et al.

Proceedings of 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR 2007) (CD-ROM), p.77 - 79, 2007/00

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4391143

We are developing a proton accelerator using an intense lasers with a focused intensity of 10 W/cm. To monitor proton energy spectra as well as plasma parameters at each laser shot, we are using real time detectors. The proton energy of MeV is stably obtained for applications.

A Study on finding suitable parameters for constitutive models of evaluating long term mechanical behavior of buffer material

Nishimura, Mayuka; Tanai, Kenji; Takaji, Kazuhiko*; Hirai, Takashi*; Shiratake, Toshikazu*

JAEA-Research 2006-036, 82 Pages, 2006/06

JAEA-Research-2006-036.pdf:4.09MB

In order to evaluate the long term mechanical behavior of the Enginnered Barrier System (EBS), it is essential to set suitable parameters of constitutive models of the buffer material. In this report, the parameters of the Sekiguchi-Ohta model and the Adachi-Oka model are examined. The results are as follows; it is impossible to set the sole parameter which can evaluate both the deformation and the stress of the buffer material. But when selecting a suitable parameter for the object of evaluation, the mechanical behavior of buffer material can be approximately described. On the other hand, the range of the secondary consolidation coefficient of the bentonite ore is estimated to corroborate to the viscous parameter of the buffer material, using a natural analogue study. Finally, the mechanical behavior of the buffer material is analyzed using these parameters, and the maximum amount of settling of the overpack is estimated.