Decommissioning state of Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility; Dismantling the Glove Box W-4,W-5,W-6-1,W-6-2 and equipment interior

Nagai, Yuya; Kimura, Yasuhisa; Takeuchi, Kentaro; Shuji, Yoshiyuki; Kawasaki, Takeshi; Hirano, Koji*; Tomiyama, Noboru*; Usui, Yasuhiro*; Nidaira, Seiichiro*; Shinozaki, Tomohiro*; et al.

JAEA-Technology 2025-003, 110 Pages, 2025/10

JAEA-Technology-2025-003.pdf:11.5MB

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) manages wide range of nuclear facilities. Many of these facilities are required to be performed adjustment with the aging and complement with the new regulatory standards and the earthquake resistant, since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. It is therefore desirable to promote decommissioning of facilities that have reached the end of their productive life in order to reduce risk and maintenance costs. However, the progress of facility decommissioning require large amount of money and radioactive waste storage space. In order to address these issues, JAEA has formulated a "The Medium/Long-Term Management Plan of JAEA Facilities" with three pillars: (1) consolidation and prioritization of facilities, (2) assurance of facility safety, and (3) back-end countermeasures. In this plan, Plutonium Fuel Fabrication Facility has been selected as primary decommissioned facility, and dismantling of equipment in the facilities have been underway. The following gloveboxes were dismantled between March 2020 and March 2022: Glovebox No. W-4, which houses the roasting furnace, washing and dewatering tank, and washing waste tank; Glovebox No. W-5, which houses the weighing tank; Glovebox No. W-6-1, which houses the flocculation-sedimentation tank, slurry-receiving tank, neutralization tank, and receiving tank; and Glovebox No. W-6-2, which houses the adjustment tank, adjustment liquid agitator, adsorption tower, discharge tank, discharge tank agitator, and adsorption tower. This report summarizes the results of the work and the findings obtained through the dismantling of these gloveboxes.

Extraordinary Mo adsorption; Utilizing spray-dried mesoporous alumina for clinical-grade generator development

Alowasheeir, A.*; Eguchi, Miharu*; Fujita, Yoshitaka; Tsuchiya, Kunihiko; Wakabayashi, Ryutaro*; Kimura, Tatsuo*; Ariga, Katsuhiko*; Hatano, Kentaro*; Fukumitsu, Nobuyoshi*; Yamauchi, Yusuke*

Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 97(10), p.uoae099_1 - uoae099_7, 2024/10

https://doi.org/10.1093/bulcsj/uoae099

no abstracts in English

Ferroaxial transitions in glaserite-type NaBa(PO) ( = Mg, Mn, Co, and Ni)

Kajita, Yoichi*; Nagai, Takayuki*; Yamagishi, Shigetada*; Kimura, Kenta*; Hagihara, Masato; Kimura, Tsuyoshi*

Chemistry of Materials, 36(15), p.7451 - 7458, 2024/08

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01406

Ferroaxial transitions in glaserite-type compounds; Database screening, phonon calculations, and experimental verification

Yamagishi, Shigetada*; Hayashida, Takeshi*; Misawa, Ryusuke*; Kimura, Kenta*; Hagihara, Masato; Murata, Tomoki*; Hirose, Sakyo*; Kimura, Tsuyoshi*

Chemistry of Materials, 35(2), p.747 - 754, 2023/01

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03540

Coexistence of magnetoelectric and antiferroelectric-like orders in MnTaO

Kimura, Kenta*; Yagi, Naoki*; Hasegawa, Shunsuke*; Hagihara, Masato; Miyake, Atsushi*; Tokunaga, Masashi*; Cao, H.*; Masuda, Takatsugu*; Kimura, Tsuyoshi*

Inorganic Chemistry, 60(20), p.15078 - 15084, 2021/10

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02461

Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, 2; Neutron scattering instruments

Nakajima, Kenji; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Ito, Shinichi*; Abe, Jun*; Aizawa, Kazuya; Aoki, Hiroyuki; Endo, Hitoshi*; Fujita, Masaki*; Funakoshi, Kenichi*; Gong, W.*; et al.

Quantum Beam Science (Internet), 1(3), p.9_1 - 9_59, 2017/12

https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs1030009

The neutron instruments suite, installed at the spallation neutron source of the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), is reviewed. MLF has 23 neutron beam ports and 21 instruments are in operation for user programs or are under commissioning. A unique and challenging instrumental suite in MLF has been realized via combination of a high-performance neutron source, optimized for neutron scattering, and unique instruments using cutting-edge technologies. All instruments are/will serve in world-leading investigations in a broad range of fields, from fundamental physics to industrial applications. In this review, overviews, characteristic features, and typical applications of the individual instruments are mentioned.

Misassigned neutron resonances of Nd and stellar neutron capture cross sections

Katabuchi, Tatsuya*; Matsuhashi, Taihei*; Terada, Kazushi; Igashira, Masayuki*; Mizumoto, Motoharu*; Hirose, Kentaro; Kimura, Atsushi; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Hara, Kaoru*; Harada, Hideo; et al.

Physical Review C, 91(3), p.037603_1 - 037603_5, 2015/03

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.91.037603

A Round robin program of master curve evaluation using miniature C(T) specimens, 3rd report; Comparison of under various selections of temperature conditions

Yamamoto, Masato*; Kimura, Akihiko*; Onizawa, Kunio; Yoshimoto, Kentaro*; Ogawa, Takuya*; Mabuchi, Yasuhiro*; Viehrig, H.-W.*; Miura, Naoki*; Soneda, Naoki*

Proceedings of 2014 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2014) (DVD-ROM), 7 Pages, 2014/07

https://doi.org/10.1115/PVP2014-28898

The Master Curve (MC) approach for the fracture toughness reference temperature To is expected to be a powerful tool to ensure the reliability of long-term used RPV steels. In order to get sufficient number of data for the MC approach related to the present surveillance program for RPVs, the use of miniature specimens is important. The test technique for the miniature specimens (Mini-CT) of 4 mm thick had been verified the basic applicability of MC approach by means of Mini-CT for the determination of fracture toughness of typical Japanese RPV steels. A round robin (RR) program was organized to assure the robustness of the technique. As the third step of RR program, blinded tests were carried out. Precise material information was not provided to the participants. From the results obtained, the scatter range in was within the acceptable scatter range specified in the testing standard. The selection of testing temperature seems to give limited effect like that in larger specimens.

Capture cross-section measurement of Am(n,) at J-PARC/MLF/ANNRI

Harada, Hideo; Ota, Masayuki; Kimura, Atsushi; Furutaka, Kazuyoshi; Hirose, Kentaro; Hara, Kaoru; Kin, Tadahiro*; Kitatani, Fumito; Koizumi, Mitsuo; Nakamura, Shoji; et al.

Nuclear Data Sheets, 119, p.61 - 64, 2014/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.019

Measurements of capture rays from the neutron resonances of Se and Se at the J-PARC/MLF/ANNRI

Hori, Junichi*; Yashima, Hiroshi*; Nakamura, Shoji; Furutaka, Kazuyoshi; Hara, Kaoru; Harada, Hideo; Hirose, Kentaro; Kimura, Atsushi; Kitatani, Fumito; Koizumi, Mitsuo; et al.

Nuclear Data Sheets, 119, p.128 - 131, 2014/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2014.08.036

In this work, we measured the capture rays from the neutron resonances of Se and Se. A neutron time-of-flight method was adopted for the measurements with a 4 Ge spectrometer installed at the Accurate Neutron-Nucleus Reaction measurement Instrument (ANNRI) in the J-PARC Material and Life science experimental Facility (MLF). The -ray pulse-height spectra corresponding to the 27-eV resonance of Se and the 113-, 212-, 291-, 342-, 690- and 864-eV resonances of Se were obtained by gating on the TOF regions, respectively. The relative intensities of those primary transitions were derived and compared with the previous experimental data. For the 27-eV resonance of Se, a strong primary transition to the 293-keV state was observed. As for Se, the quite differences of the decay pattern were found between the resonances.