Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2018

Nakano, Masanao; Fujii, Tomoko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Kono, Takahiko; Hosomi, Kenji; Nishimura, Shusaku; Matsubara, Natsumi; Maehara, Yushi; Narita, Ryosuke; et al.

JAEA-Review 2019-048, 165 Pages, 2020/03

JAEA-Review-2019-048.pdf:2.69MB

Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2018 to March 2019. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (the trade name was changed to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. on April 1, 2016) in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.

TEM observation of growth process of zirconium hydride in zircaloy-4 during hydrogen ion implantation

Shinohara, Yasunari*; Abe, Hiroaki*; Iwai, Takeo*; Sekimura, Naoto*; Kido, Toshiya*; Yamamoto, Hiroyuki; Taguchi, Tomitsugu

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 46(6), p.564 - 571, 2009/06

https://doi.org/10.3327/jnst.46.564

observation during hydrogen ion implantation was performed with a TEM installed in an ion accelerator to investigate the growth process of Zr hydride in Zicaloy-4. To clarify the effect of radiation damage, some samples were irradiated with 4 MeV Ni ions prior to hydrogen implantation. Growth processes of Zr hydrides accompanying the formation of dislocations were observed. The crystallographic relationship between the Zr matrix and Zr hydrides was identical with that found in previous studies: inter- and intragranular hydrides exhibiting a tendency to grow in the 110 direction. This growth can be attributed to a shear mechanism. In specimens preirradiated with Ni ions, the growth rate of hydrides was suppressed, but the growth direction was not affected by radiation defects. It was also confirmed that the black spots induced by Ni ion irradiation grew during hydrogen ion implantation, suggesting the formation of hydrides at the defects.