Decommissioning of uranium handling facility for development of nuclear fuel manufacturing equipment

Kageyama, Tomio; Denuma, Akio; Koizumi, Jin*; Odakura, Manabu*; Haginoya, Masahiro*; Isaka, Shinichi*; Kadowaki, Hiroyuki*; Kobayashi, Shingo*; Morimoto, Taisei*; Kato, Yoshiaki*; et al.

JAEA-Technology 2022-033, 130 Pages, 2023/03

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Uranium handling facility for development of nuclear fuel manufacturing equipment (Mockup room) was constructed in 1972. The Mockup room has a weak seismic resistance and is deteriorating with age. Also, the original purpose with this facility have been achieved and there are no new development plans using this facility. Therefore, interior equipment installed in this facility had been dismantled and removed since March 2019. After that, the Mockup room was inspected for contamination, and then controlled area in the Mockup room was cancelled on March 29th 2022. A total of 6,549 workers (not including security witnesses) were required for this work. The amount of non-radioactive waste generated by this work was 31,300 kg. The amount of radioactive waste generated by this work was 3,734 kg of combustible waste (103 drums), 4,393 kg of flame resistance waste (61 drums), 37,790 kg of non-combustible waste (124 drums, 19 containers). This report describes about the dismantling and removing the interior equipment in the Mockup room, the amount of waste generated by this work, and procedure for cancellation the controlled area in the facility.

The Surface composition of asteroid 162173 Ryugu from Hayabusa2 near-infrared spectroscopy

Kitazato, Kohei*; Milliken, R. E.*; Iwata, Takahiro*; Abe, Masanao*; Otake, Makiko*; Matsuura, Shuji*; Arai, Takehiko*; Nakauchi, Yusuke*; Nakamura, Tomoki*; Matsuoka, Moe*; et al.

Science, 364(6437), p.272 - 275, 2019/04

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav7432

The near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, the target of Hayabusa2 sample return mission, is believed to be a primitive carbonaceous object. The Near Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS3) on Hayabusa2 acquired reflectance spectra of Ryugu's surface to provide direct measurements of the surface composition and geological context for the returned samples. A weak, narrow absorption feature centered at 2.72 micron was detected across the entire observed surface, indicating that hydroxyl (OH)-bearing minerals are ubiquitous there. The intensity of the OH feature and low albedo are similar to thermally- and/or shock-metamorphosed carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. There are few variations in the OH-band position, consistent with Ryugu being a compositionally homogeneous rubble-pile object generated from impact fragments of an undifferentiated aqueously altered parent body.

Pretreatment works for disposal of radioactive wastes produced by research activities, 1

Ishihara, Keisuke; Yokota, Akira; Kanazawa, Shingo; Iketani, Shotaro; Sudo, Tomoyuki; Myodo, Masato; Irie, Hirobumi; Kato, Mitsugu; Iseda, Hirokatsu; Kishimoto, Katsumi; et al.

JAEA-Technology 2016-024, 108 Pages, 2016/12

JAEA-Technology-2016-024.pdf:29.74MB

Radioactive isotope, nuclear fuel material and radiation generators are utilized in research institutes, universities, hospitals, private enterprises, etc. As a result, various low-level radioactive wastes (hereinafter referred to as non-nuclear radioactive wastes) are produced. Disposal site for non-nuclear radioactive wastes have not been settled yet and those wastes are stored in storage facilities of each operator for a long period. The Advanced Volume Reduction Facilities (AVRF) are built to produce waste packages so that they satisfy requirements for shallow underground disposal. In the AVRF, low-level beta-gamma solid radioactive wastes produced in the Nuclear Science Research Institute are mainly treated. To produce waste packages meeting requirements for disposal safely and efficiently, it is necessary to cut large radioactive wastes into pieces of suitable size and segregate those depending on their types of material. This report summarizes activities of pretreatment to dispose of non-nuclear radioactive wastes in the AVRF.

A Study for proposal of welded joint strength reduction factors of modified 9Cr-1Mo steel for Japan sodium cooled fast reactor (JSFR)

Wakai, Takashi; Onizawa, Takashi; Kato, Takehiko*; Date, Shingo*; Kikuchi, Koichi*; Sato, Kenichiro*

Proceedings of 2013 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2013) (DVD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2013/07

Development of transfer pot for JSFR ex-vessel fuel handling

Hirata, Shingo; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Kato, Atsushi; Uto, Nariaki; Obata, Hiroyuki*; Kotake, Shoji*

Proceedings of International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles (FR 2009) (CD-ROM), 10 Pages, 2012/00

http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/meetings/PDFplus/2009/cn176/cn176_BoeS.pdf

In Fast Reactor Cycle Technology Development (FaCT) project, Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR) is going to adopt an advanced fuel handling system. As for ex-vessel spent fuel handling, a pot which contains two fuel subassemblies simultaneously and is applicable size to compact reactor vessel, has been developing so as to shorten a refueling period leading to an improvement of plant availability. The pot is required to provide sufficient cooling capability even in case of transportation malfunction during transportation of spent fuel subassemblies with high decay heat. In the present study, experimental and analytical studies to evaluate the cooling capacity of the pot are summarized.

Conceptual design for Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor, 3; Development of advanced fuel handling system for JSFR

Kato, Atsushi; Hirata, Shingo; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Uto, Nariaki; Obata, Hiroyuki; Kotake, Shoji

Proceedings of 2009 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '09) (CD-ROM), p.9281_1 - 9281_6, 2009/05

One of the most important challenges to commercialize a Fast Reactor is to increase economic competitiveness. For that purpose, Japan Sodium cooled Fast Reactor (hereafter JSFR) aims to simplify the plant system and reduce the raw and processed material by adopting innovative technologies. In the JSFR design, a single rotating plug and a reactor upper inner structure (hereafter UIS) with a vertically penetrating slit are proposed, so that the fuel handling machine (hereafter FHM) can access any subassembly by horizontal movement of the FHM arm in the slit space. The feature of this FHM enables no need for the UIS removal when the rotational plug moves round above the core, which can achieve a compact reactor vessel to enhance the economic competitiveness. We fabricated the full scale FHM test equipment to perform comprehensive tests in the air for demonstrating the feasibility of the key characteristics of this FHM concept.

Study of the fuel handling system in the FaCT project, 1; Mock-up tests of the fuel handling machine in the air

Kato, Atsushi; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Hirata, Shingo; Uto, Nariaki; Kotake, Shoji*; Obata, Hiroyuki*

no journal, , 

In JSFR development, we have fabricated the mock-up of the fuel handling machine to verify the basic feasibility in the air that achieve the compact reactor vessel.

Development of fuel handling system in FaCT project, 2; Dry spent fuel cleaning test

Obata, Hiroyuki*; Chikazawa, Yoshitaka; Kato, Atsushi; Hirata, Shingo

no journal, , 

In the FaCT project, a dry spent fuel cleaning system has been investigated as one of components in commercialized reactor fuel handling system. In this study, cleaning experiments using a mockup fuel subassembly has been conducted to evaluate feasibility of the dry spent fuel cleaning system.

Transport and supply process of Na and Be depositions in Tsuruga city

Yoshida, Keisuke; Kato, Shingo; Inoue, Mutsuo*; Ishizuka, Akihiro; Okuyama, Shinichi

no journal, , 

Na is observed for environmental monitoring of Monju fast breeder reactor because Monju reactor contains Na in primary coolant. But Na is produced in upper atmosphere, therefore, Na is detected in assembled deposition sample. To increase accuracy of environmental monitoring, it is necessary to understand transport and supply process of Na and Be depositions from high latitude region where a lot of Na is produced. We collect deposition samples at Tsuruga city to measure Na and collect Be deposition data in 5 sites in Fukui prefecture and Ishikawa prefecture. Because Na and Be shows good correlation, Na have same behavior with Be. Be deposition is maximum at Kanazawa city and minimum at Shika town, but Be deposition is maximum in Winter season at all sites. Be deposition and precipitation shows correlation. From the above, Winter monsoon transport Be and Na from high latitude region and precipitation provide these nuclides to ground surface at Tsuruga city. The deference of Be deposition in Winter season is likely owing to height of mountain and distance of sampling sites.

Variation of Be-7 and Na-22 in deposition sample and mesoscale meteorological phenomena in Tsuruga city in winter season

Kato, Shingo; Yoshida, Keisuke; Inoue, Mutsuo*; Yamashita, Masahiro; Okuyama, Shinichi; Ishimori, Yuu

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English