Development of fission product chemistry database ECUME for the LWR severe accident

Miwa, Shuhei; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Miyahara, Naoya; Nishioka, Shunichiro; Suzuki, Eriko; Horiguchi, Naoki; Liu, J.; Miradji, F.; Imoto, Jumpei; Afiqa, B. M.; et al.

Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 7(3), p.19-00537_1 - 19-00537_11, 2020/06

https://doi.org/10.1299/mej.19-00537

We constructed the fission product (FP) chemistry database named ECUME for LWR severe accident. This version of ECUME is equipped with dataset of the chemical reactions and their kinetics constants for the reactions of cesium(Cs)-iodine(I)-boron(B)-molybdenum(Mo)-oxygen(O)-hydrogen(H) system in gas phase, the elemental model for the high temperature chemical reaction of Cs with stainless steel applied as the structural material in a reactor, and thermodynamic data for CsBO vapor species and solids of CsSiO and CsFeSiO for these chemical reactions. The ECUME will provide estimation of Cs distribution due to the evaluation of effects of interaction with BWR control material B and stainless steel on Cs behavior in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

Development of fission product chemistry database ECUME for the LWR severe accident

Miwa, Shuhei; Miyahara, Naoya; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Nishioka, Shunichiro; Suzuki, Eriko; Horiguchi, Naoki; Liu, J.; Miradji, F.; Imoto, Jumpei; Afiqa, B. M.; et al.

Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-27) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2019/05

https://doi.org/10.1299/jsmeicone.2019.27.1993

We constructed the first version of fission product (FP) chemistry database named ECUME for LWR severe accident. The first version of ECUME is equipped with dataset of the chemical reactions and their kinetics constants for the reactions of cesium(Cs)-iodine(I)-boron(B)-molybdenum(Mo)-oxygen(O)-hydrogen(H) system in gas phase, the elemental model for the high temperature chemical reaction of Cs with stainless steel, and thermodynamic data for CsBO vapor species and solids of CsSiO and CsFeSiO. The ECUME will provide more accurate estimation of Cs distribution due to the evaluation of effects of interaction with BWR control material B and stainless steel on Cs behavior in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

Results and progress of fundamental research on FP chemistry

Osaka, Masahiko; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Miwa, Shuhei; Miyahara, Naoya; Suzuki, Eriko; Suzuki, Chikashi; Horiguchi, Naoki; Imoto, Jumpei; Liu, J.; Nishioka, Shunichiro; et al.

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Fundamental research on fission product (FP) chemistry is underway at Japan Atomic Energy Agency. The purpose is to establish a FP chemistry database in each region of a LWR under severe accident conditions. Improvement of FP chemical models based on this database is also an important task of the research. Research outputs are reflected to the research and development of decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) and the enhancement of LWR safety. Four research items have thus been established considering the specific issues of 1F and the priority in the source term research area, as follows: - Effects of boron (B) release kinetics and thermal-hydraulic conditions on FP behavior, - Cesium (Cs) chemisorption and reactions with structural materials, - Establishment of a thermodynamic and thermophysical properties database for FP compounds, - Development of experimental and analytical techniques for the reproduction of FP behavior. In this paper, results and progress of the research are presented.

Quantum modelling of Cs substances in the case of LWR severe accident

Miradji, F.; Suzuki, Chikashi; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Osaka, Masahiko

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Structural and thermal properties of Cs-Fe-Si-O systems under LWR severe accident by DFT calculations

Miradji, F.; Suzuki, Chikashi; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Osaka, Masahiko

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Cesium chemisorption behavior onto stainless steel at temperatures higher than 1073 K

Nakajima, Kunihisa; Nishioka, Shunichiro; Suzuki, Eriko; Miradji, F.; Osaka, Masahiko

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Radioactive cesium (Cs) localized in the upper region of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) is one of the major concerns, especially in the case of the fuel debris retrieval accessing from top of the RPV. For estimation of amount of Cs chemisorbed onto structure materials, Cs chemisorption model is developed and incorporated into present severe accident codes. However, this chemisorption model cannot accurately reproduce experimental results. Therefore, this study elucidates essential factors influencing the Cs chemisorption behavior and construct the Cs chemisorption model considering these factors. It was found that this model can more accurately reproduce not only our experimental results but also the results used to construct the existing chemisorption model.

Development of Ru chemistry database under severe accident conditions of nuclear facilities

Miyahara, Naoya; Miwa, Shuhei; Miradji, F.; Liu, J.; Horiguchi, Naoki; Osaka, Masahiko

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In order to contribute to the improvement of source term under severe accidents of nuclear facilities, a database of gaseous phase chemical reaction rate constants in the Ru-N-O-H system was developed. The data implemented in the database were prepared by either literature review or, if the literature data was not available, ab-initio based calculation. It was confirmed by preliminary analyses that there is no lack of reaction path in the database and the changes of Ru chemical forms were successfully calculated. These results indicated that the developed database would be useful to evaluate Ru chemical forms considering the chemical reaction kinetics.

Fission product chemistry database ECUME

Imoto, Jumpei; Miwa, Shuhei; Miyahara, Naoya; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Nishioka, Shunichiro; Suzuki, Eriko; Horiguchi, Naoki; Liu, J.; Miradji, F.; Afiqa, B. M.; et al.

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Fission product (FP) chemistry database ECUME (Effective Chemistry database of fission products Under Multiphase rEaction) consists of three kinds of datasets: CRK (dataset for Chemical Reaction Kinetics), EM (Elemental Model set) and TD (ThermoDynamic dataset). The present ECUME is equipped with the CRK for the reaction of Cs-I-B-Mo-O-H system in gas phase, the EM for the Cs chemical reaction with stainless steel (SS) (Cs chemisorption onto SS) and the TD for CsBO vapor species and solid CsSiO and CsFeSiO. The Cs chemisorption behavior model has successfully reproduced the effects of CsOH vapor concentration in gas phase and Si content in SS on the Cs chemisorption behavior which were not able to be considered by the existing model. The ECUME are expected to contribute to more accurate evaluation of FP distribution in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.