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Sanada, Yukihisa; Nishizawa, Yukiyasu; Yamada, Tsutomu; Ikeda, Kazutaka*; Matsui, Masashi*; Tsuchida, Kiyofumi; Sato, Yoshiharu; Hirayama, Hirokatsu; Takamura, Yoshihide; Nishihara, Katsuya; et al.
JAEA-Research 2013-049, 129 Pages, 2014/03
JAEA-Research-2013-049.pdf:15.5MB
By the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), caused by the East Japan earthquake and the following tsunami occurred on March 11, 2011, a large amount of radioactive materials was released from the NPP. In recent years, technologies for autonomous unmanned helicopters (AUHs) have been developed and applied to natural disasters. In expectation of the application of the AUHs to aerial radiation monitoring, we had developed a remote radiation monitoring system. Then, we measured the radiation level by using unmanned helicopter in soil contaminated areas by radioactive cesium emitted from the NPP to evaluate ambient dose-rate distribution around the areas and to investigate the decontamination effect by the measurements before and after decontamination treatment. Here, we reports on the measurement technique and the result.
Sakaba, Nariaki; Hirayama, Yoshiaki*
Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Energy System for Future Generation and Global Sustainability (GLOBAL 2005) (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2005/10
The high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is capable of producing a massive quantity of hydrogen with no carbon dioxide emission during its production by a thermo chemical IS (Iodine-Sulphur) process. The HTTR (High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor), which is the first high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in Japan, will be connected to some heat utilization system in the near future. The thermo chemical IS process is one of the progressive candidates. The metallic material of the heat transfer tube of the intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) and liner in the concentric hot gas duct in the HTTR-IS system, which allows usage in high-temperature conditions, is the nickel-based high-temperature alloy Hastelloy XR. Since the coolant helium contains small amounts of impurities, it is necessary to control the chemical composition in order to minimize corrosion of the Hastelloy XR. Major corrosion phenomena of the Hastelloy XR are carburization, decarburization, oxidation, and carbon deposition depending upon the particular gas composition and its temperature. The carburization and decarburization phenomena can be restricted by controlling the carbon activity and oxygen partial pressure. This paper describes the effect of each coolant impurity for the carburization and decarburization. Also a chemical composition limit was evaluated to avoid the Hastelloy XR corrosion.
C operation of the HTTRSakaba, Nariaki; Matsuzawa, Takaharu*; Hirayama, Yoshiaki*; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Nishihara, Tetsuo; Takeda, Tetsuaki
Proceedings of 2005 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '05) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2005/05
The permeation of hydrogen isotopes through the Hastelloy XR high-temperature alloy adopted for the heat exchanger pipes of the intermediate heat exchanger in the HTTR (High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor) is one of the concerns in the hydrogen production system, which will be connected to the HTTR in the near future. An evaluation of the hydrogen permeation between the primary and secondary coolant through the Hastelloy XR was performed using the hydrogen concentration data observed during the initial 950C operation of the HTTR. The hydrogen permeability of the Hastelloy XR was estimated conservatively high as follows. The activation energy E
and pre-exponential factor F of the permeability of hydrogen were E = 62 kJ/mol and F = 3.6
10
cm
(NTP)/(cm s Pa
), respectively, in the temperature range from 735K to 940K. The results implied that some oxidized film had been formed on the surface of the heat exchanger pipes of the intermediate heat exchanger.