Impact of molybdenum on iodine chemistry during fission product transport phenomenology

Rizaal, M.; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Suzuki, Eriko; Miwa, Shuhei

Annals of Nuclear Energy, 218, p.111433_1 - 111433_10, 2025/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2025.111433

Gaseous and aerosol formations in the pseudo-binary CsI-MoO reaction system

Rizaal, M.; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Suzuki, Eriko; Miwa, Shuhei

Proceedings of 11th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research Conference (ERMSAR 2024) (Internet), 11 Pages, 2024/05

https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000174165

Survey on technical issues of fission products behavior for improvement of decommissioning work efficiency and source term predicting accuracy; Report on the activity of this research committee for 2 years

Katsumura, Kosuke*; Takagi, Junichi*; Hosomi, Kenji*; Miyahara, Naoya*; Koma, Yoshikazu; Imoto, Jumpei; Karasawa, Hidetoshi; Miwa, Shuhei; Shiotsu, Hiroyuki; Hidaka, Akihide*; et al.

Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi ATOMO, 65(11), p.674 - 679, 2023/11

https://doi.org/10.3327/jaesjb.65.11_674

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Improvement of model for cesium chemisorption onto stainless steel in severe accident analysis code SAMPSON (Joint research)

Miwa, Shuhei; Karasawa, Hidetoshi; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Kino, Chiaki*; Suzuki, Eriko; Imoto, Jumpei

JAEA-Data/Code 2021-022, 32 Pages, 2023/01

JAEA-Data-Code-2021-022.pdf:1.41MB
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The improved model for cesium (Cs) chemisorption onto stainless steel (SS) in the fission product (FP) chemistry database named ECUME was incorporated into the severe accident (SA) analysis code SAMPSON for the more accurate estimation of Cs distribution within nuclear reactor vessels in the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F). The SAMPSON with the improved model was verified based on the analysis results reproducing the experimental results which were subjected to the modeling of Cs chemisorption behavior. Then, the experiment in the facility with the temperature gradient tube to simulate SA conditions such as temperature decrease and aerosol formation was analyzed to confirm availability of the improved model to the analysis of Cs chemisorption onto SS. The SAMPSON with the improved model successfully reproduced the experimental results, which indicates that the improved model and the analytical method such as setting a method of node-junction, models of aerosol formation and the calculation method of saturated CsOH vapor pressure can be applicable to the analysis of Cs chemisorption behavior. As the information on water-solubility of Cs deposits was also prerequisite to estimate the Cs distribution in the 1F because Cs can be transported through aqueous phase after the SA, the water-solubility of chemisorbed Cs compounds was investigated. The chemisorbed compounds on SS304 have been identified to CsFeO at 873 K to 973 K with higher water-solubility, CsFeSiO at 973 K to 1273 K and CsSiO at 1073 K to 1273 K with lower water-solubility. From these results, the water-solubility of chemisorbed Cs compounds can be estimated according to the SA analysis conditions such as temperature in the reactor and the CsOH concentration affecting the amount of chemisorbed Cs.

A New method of measuring ruthenium activity in ruthenium-containing alloys by using thermogravimetric analysis

Liu, J.; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Miwa, Shuhei; Shirasu, Noriko; Osaka, Masahiko

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 59(4), p.484 - 490, 2022/04

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2021.1979432

Revaporization behavior of cesium and iodine compounds from their deposits in the steam-boron atmosphere

Rizaal, M.; Miwa, Shuhei; Suzuki, Eriko; Imoto, Jumpei; Osaka, Masahiko; Goullo, M.*

ACS Omega (Internet), 6(48), p.32695 - 32708, 2021/12

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c04441

Synthesis of simulated fuels containing CsI under gas-tight condition

Liu, J.; Miwa, Shuhei; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Osaka, Masahiko

Nuclear Materials and Energy (Internet), 26, p.100916_1 - 100916_6, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2021.100916

Experimental study on transport behavior of cesium iodide in the reactor coolant system under LWR severe accident conditions

Miyahara, Naoya; Miwa, Shuhei; Goullo, M.*; Imoto, Jumpei; Horiguchi, Naoki; Sato, Isamu*; Osaka, Masahiko

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 57(12), p.1287 - 1296, 2020/12

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2020.1782281

In order to clarify the cesium iodide (CsI) transport behavior with a focus on the mechanisms of gaseous iodine formation in the reactor coolant system of LWR under a severe accident condition, a reproductive experiment of CsI transport behavior was conducted using a facility equipped with a thermal gradient tube. Various analyses on deposits and airborne materials during transportation could elucidate two mechanisms for the gaseous iodine formation. One was the gaseous phase chemical reaction in Cs-I-O-H system at relatively high-temperature region, which led to gaseous iodine transport to the lower temperature region without any further changes in gas species due to the kinetics limitation effects. The other one was the chemical reactions related to condensed phase of CsI, namely those of CsI deposits on walls with surface of stainless steel to form CsCrO compound and CsI aerosol particles with steam, which were newly found in this study.

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.

Evaporation of ruthenium from simulated fission-produced alloy precipitates in a nuclear fuel

Liu, J.; Miyahara, Naoya; Miwa, Shuhei; Takano, Masahide; Hidaka, Akihide; Osaka, Masahiko

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 527, p.151819_1 - 151819_7, 2019/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.151819

To evaluate the effect of each constituent element on the evaporation rate of ruthenium (Ru) from fission-produced alloy precipitates, the oxidation and evaporation behaviors of metallic Ru, molybdenum (Mo), palladium (Pd), rhodium (Rh) and Mo-Ru-Pd-Rh alloy powders were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis under oxidizing atmospheres from 1473 to 1723 K. The findings led to the following conclusions: (1) The quick oxidation of Mo into condensed Mo oxides can effectively suppress the oxidation and evaporation of Ru in alloy powders; (2) After the complete evaporation of Mo, the evaporation loss rate of Ru would be directly influenced by the Ru activity in the Ru-Pd-Rh alloys, which is determined by the composition of alloys.