Document collection of the 41st Technical Special Committee on Fugen Decommissioning

Koda, Yuya; Matsuno, Hiroki; Matsushima, Akira; Kubota, Shintaro; Toda, Keisuke; Nakamura, Yasuyuki

JAEA-Review 2024-003, 38 Pages, 2024/06

JAEA-Review-2024-003.pdf:4.94MB

"Fugen Decommissioning Engineering Center", in planning and carrying out our decommissioning technical development, organizes "Technical special committee on Fugen decommissioning" which consists of the members well-informed, aiming to make good use of Fugen as a place for technological development which is opened domestic and international, as the central place in research and development base of Fukui prefecture, and to utilize the outcome in our decommissioning to the technical development effectively. This report consists of presentation paper are "The current status of Fugen decommissioning", "Regarding dismantling and decontamination of steam drums", "Knowledge of radiation management in dismantling contaminated equipment", "Achievements and considerations for identifying and separating contaminated parts of nonradioactive waste" and "Regarding technology development plans for nuclear reactor dismantling" which is presented in the 41st Technical Special Committee on Fugen Decommissioning.

Efficient hydrogen isotope separation by tunneling effect using graphene-based heterogeneous electrocatalysts in electrochemical hydrogen isotope pumping

Yasuda, Satoshi; Matsushima, Hisayoshi*; Harada, Kenji*; Tanii, Risako*; Terasawa, Tomoo; Yano, Masahiro; Asaoka, Hidehito; Gueriba, J. S.*; Dio, W. A.*; Fukutani, Katsuyuki

ACS Nano, 16(9), p.14362 - 14369, 2022/09

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c04655

The fabrication of hydrogen isotope enrichment system is essential for the development of industrial, medical, life science, and nuclear fusion fields, therefore alternative enrichment techniques with high separation factor and economic feasibility have been still explored. Herein, we report the fabrication of heterogeneous electrode with layered structures consisting of palladium and graphene layers for polymer electrolyte membrane electrochemical hydrogen pumping for the hydrogen isotope enrichment. We demonstrated significant bias voltage dependence of hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) separation ability and its high H/D at lower bias voltage. Theoretical analysis also demonstrated that the observed high H/D at low bias voltage stems from hydrogen isotopes tunneling through atomically-thick graphene during the electrochemical reaction, and the bias dependent H/D results in a transition from the quantum tunneling regime to classical over- barrier regime for hydrogen isotopes transfer via the graphene. These findings provide new insight for a novel economical methodology of efficient hydrogen isotope enrichment.

Study on hydrogen generation from cement solidified products loading low-level radioactive liquid wastes at Tokai Reprocessing Plant

Sato, Fuminori; Matsushima, Ryotatsu; Ito, Yoshiyuki

QST-M-16; QST Takasaki Annual Report 2017, P. 60, 2019/03

https://repo.qst.go.jp/records/74834

Hydrogen gas generation by -radiation from cement solidified products loading low-level radioactive liquid waste generated at LWTF in Tokai Reprocessing Facility was studied.

Decommissioning activities in FUGEN

Kitamura, Koichi; Kutsuna, Hideki; Matsushima, Akira; Koda, Yuya; Iwai, Hiroki

Dekomisshoningu Giho, (51), p.2 - 10, 2015/04

Fugen Decommissioning Engineering Center (herein after called as "FUGEN") obtained the approval of the decommissioning program on February 2008. FUGEN has been carrying out decommissioning works based on its decommissioning program since then. Now is in initial stage, the dismantling works was launched in turbine system whose contamination was relatively low level and their various data have been accumulating. And the draining heavy water, tritium decontamination and transferring of heavy water were carried out safely and reasonably. The preparation for the clearance system and the research and development works for the reactor core dismantling have been progressed steadily as well. Meanwhile, FUGEN has affiliation with local industries and universities for collaboration research, and has exchanged the decommissioning information with domestic and overseas organizations continuously.

Evaluation of fracture toughness of fine-grained isotropic graphites for HTGR

Yamada, Teruaki*; Matsushima, Yuki*; Kuroda, Masatoshi*; Sumita, Junya; Shibata, Taiju; Fujita, Ichiro*; Sawa, Kazuhiro

Proceedings of 6th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology (HTR 2012) (USB Flash Drive), 6 Pages, 2012/10

In order to investigate the effects of the experimental methodology and the notch angle on the fracture toughness of the fine-grained isotropic nuclear graphites IG-110 and IG-430, the three-point-bending test, which has been recently proposed as the methodology to evaluate the fracture toughness of graphite for high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs), was performed using two types of the specimens with different notch angles. The results obtained in this study could be summarized as follows: (1) The values of the fracture toughness of IG-110 and IG-430 measured in this study were 0.890 (MPam) and 1.031 (MPam), respectively. It was also found that the value of the fracture toughness of IG-110 was nearly equal to or smaller than the values obtained by the other method reported previously. (2) The values of the fracture toughness of the fine-grained isotropic graphites were not affected between the notch angles introduced by the incisive razor blade. (3) The ratio of the tensile strengths of IG-110 and IG-430 was estimated from Griffith Theory using the experimental data obtained in this study. The estimated strength ratio was in good agreement with the strength ratio obtained from the supplier's data.

Decommissioning program of FUGEN and current activities

Tezuka, Masashi; Mizui, Hiroyuki; Matsushima, Akira; Nakamura, Yasuyuki; Hayashi, Hirokazu; Sano, Kazuya; Nanko, Takashi; Morishita, Yoshitsugu

Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Sustainable Options & Industrial Perspectives (Global 2009) (CD-ROM), p.2815 - 2821, 2009/09

FUGEN is a proto-type heavy water moderated, boiling light water cooled, pressure tube type reactor with 165MWe and has been shut downed on Mar. 2003. Following the approval of decommissioning program in 2008, stage of FUGEN was changed to the decommissioning of the facilities. The program consists of following four periods; (1) Spent fuel transportation, (2) Periphery facilities dismantlement, (3) Reactor dismantlement and (4) Building demolition. It is expected that the whole decommissioning will be completed until 2028. As a part of the work in the spent fuel transportation period, the main steam system and the feeder water system etc. are being dismantled in the turbine building. The remaining tritium in the heavy water system is also being removed for facilitating the dismantlement of the heavy water system. Moreover, method on dismantlement of the reactor core is being studied with considering the process under the water for the radiation shielding and the dust suppression.

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Nemoto, Shinichi; Sakai, Toshiyuki*; Sanyoshi, Hirotaka; Kikuchi, Kenji; Iwasaki, Isao*; Kuribayashi, Masakazu*; Matsushima, Kazumi*

PNC TN8410 93-283, 86 Pages, 1993/11

PNC-TN8410-93-283.pdf:2.38MB

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Establishment of evaluation method using material analysis of simulated fuel assembly heating test, 1; Outline of simulated fuel assembly heating test using non-transfer type plasma heating

Abe, Yuta; Nakagiri, Toshio; Yamashita, Takuya; Noro, Junji*; Matsushima, Tomohiro*; Kawakami, Tomohiko*

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Hydrogen isotope gas separation used graphene-metal electrode in hydrogen pumping method

Yasuda, Satoshi; Matsushima, Hisayoshi*; Asaoka, Hidehito; Fukutani, Katsuyuki*

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Effect of notch-tip geometry on the fracture toughness of fine-grained isotropic graphite

Matsushima, Yuki*; Yamada, Teruaki*; Kuroda, Masatoshi*; Sumita, Junya; Shibata, Taiju; Sawa, Kazuhiro

no journal, , 

In order to investigate the effect of notch-tip geometry on the fracture toughness of fine-grained isotropic graphite ETU-10, three-point-bending fracture toughness tests have been performed by using two types of single-edge notched beam specimens with different notch angles of approximately 15 and 30. The values of the fracture toughness were calculated based on linear elastic fracture mechanics by using the maximum force which could be obtained by the load-displacement curve. As a result, the values of the fracture toughness of the specimens with the notch angles of approximately 15 and 30 were 0.933 MPa mand 0.926 MPa m, respectively. This suggested that the values of the fracture toughness were not affected between the notch angles. Further work has been ongoing to discuss the effect of the notch-tip geometry such as angle and root radius of notch in terms of finite element analysis.