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Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Mizutani, Tomoko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Kono, Takahiko; Hosomi, Kenji; Hokama, Tomonori; Nishimura, Tomohiro; Matsubara, Natsumi; et al.
JAEA-Review 2018-025, 171 Pages, 2019/02
JAEA-Review-2018-025.pdf:3.81MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2016 to March 2017. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and were exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.
Strasser, P.*; Abe, Mitsushi*; Aoki, Masaharu*; Choi, S.*; Fukao, Yoshinori*; Higashi, Yoshitaka*; Higuchi, Takashi*; Iinuma, Hiromi*; Ikedo, Yutaka*; Ishida, Katsuhiko*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 198, p.00003_1 - 00003_8, 2019/01
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：99.06(Quantum Science & Technology)Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Mizutani, Tomoko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Hosomi, Kenji; Nagaoka, Mika; Hokama, Tomonori; Nishimura, Tomohiro; Koike, Yuko; et al.
JAEA-Review 2017-028, 177 Pages, 2018/01
JAEA-Review-2017-028.pdf:3.61MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2016 to March 2017. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and were exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.
Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Mizutani, Tomoko; Hosomi, Kenji; Nagaoka, Mika; Hokama, Tomonori; Yokoyama, Hiroya; Nishimura, Tomohiro; Matsubara, Natsumi; Maehara, Yushi; et al.
JAEA-Review 2016-035, 179 Pages, 2017/03
JAEA-Review-2016-035.pdf:4.2MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2015 to March 2016. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and were exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.
Strasser, P.*; Aoki, Masaharu*; Fukao, Yoshinori*; Higashi, Yoshitaka*; Higuchi, Takashi*; Iinuma, Hiromi*; Ikedo, Yutaka*; Ishida, Katsuhiko*; Ito, Takashi; Iwasaki, Masahiko*; et al.
Hyperfine Interactions, 237(1), p.124_1 - 124_9, 2016/12
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：90.97(Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical)Watanabe, Hitoshi; Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Takeyasu, Masanori; Mizutani, Tomoko; Isozaki, Tokuju*; Nagaoka, Mika; Hokama, Tomonori; Yokoyama, Hiroya; Nishimura, Tomohiro; et al.
JAEA-Review 2015-034, 175 Pages, 2016/03
JAEA-Review-2015-034.pdf:8.13MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2014 to March 2015. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in March 2011.
Watanabe, Hitoshi; Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Takeyasu, Masanori; Mizutani, Tomoko; Isozaki, Tokuju; Morisawa, Masato; Nagaoka, Mika; Hokama, Tomonori; Yokoyama, Hiroya; et al.
JAEA-Review 2014-042, 175 Pages, 2015/01
JAEA-Review-2014-042.pdf:10.89MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2013 to March 2014. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in March 2011.
Mizutani, Jun*; Ebara, Shinji*; Hashizume, Hidetoshi*; Yamano, Hidemasa
Proceedings of 10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-10) (USB Flash Drive), 12 Pages, 2014/12
In this study, the influence of the inflow condition upon the flow separation and pressure fluctuation characteristic was evaluated by using a 1/7-scale mockup of the cold-leg piping of Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. The inflow condition to the 3rd elbow was changed from previous studies by varying the distance between the 2nd and 3rd elbows from 6.4D to 9.4D, where D is the pipe diameter. The visualization experiment showed that the flow separation appeared in the intrados of the 3rd elbow as was the case with 6.4D and separated regions became larger than that in the case of 6.4D. This is because a swirling flow observed at the inlet of the 3rd elbow became weaker than that of the case of 6.4D. The frequency analysis of pressure fluctuations showed that gentle but apparent peaks in the power spectral density (PSD) distributions of pressure fluctuations were observed at about 0.4 of the Strouhal number around the separated regions, and this peak value was half of that in the case of 6.4D. In addition, prominent peaks in the PSD distributions were observed at about 0.6 of the Strouhal number in the downstream of the reattachment point in the intrados. The peak value was approximately 3 times larger than that in the case of 6.4D. The results revealed the weakened swirling flow made the separated region larger in the downstream and the pressure fluctuation magnitude stronger.
Sumiya, Shuichi; Watanabe, Hitoshi; Miyagawa, Naoto; Nakano, Masanao; Nakada, Akira; Fujita, Hiroki; Takeyasu, Masanori; Isozaki, Tokuju; Morisawa, Masato; Mizutani, Tomoko; et al.
JAEA-Review 2013-056, 181 Pages, 2014/03
JAEA-Review-2013-056.pdf:6.22MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2012 to March 2013. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in March 2011.
Sumiya, Shuichi; Watanabe, Hitoshi; Nakano, Masanao; Takeyasu, Masanori; Nakada, Akira; Fujita, Hiroki; Isozaki, Tokuju; Morisawa, Masato; Mizutani, Tomoko; Nagaoka, Mika; et al.
JAEA-Review 2013-009, 195 Pages, 2013/06
JAEA-Review-2013-009.pdf:3.35MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2011 to March 2012. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Tokyo Electric Power Co. in March 2011.
Sumiya, Shuichi; Watanabe, Hitoshi; Nakano, Masanao; Takeyasu, Masanori; Nakada, Akira; Fujita, Hiroki; Isozaki, Tokuju; Morisawa, Masato; Mizutani, Tomoko; Kokubun, Yuji; et al.
JAEA-Review 2012-015, 166 Pages, 2012/05
JAEA-Review-2012-015.pdf:3.53MB
Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2010 to March 2011. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Tokyo Electric Power Co. in 2011 March. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring program, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data exceeded the normal range of fluctuation by the accidental release was evaluated in the appendices.
Mizutani, Tomoko; Koarashi, Jun; Takeishi, Minoru
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 46(7), p.665 - 672, 2009/07
Times Cited Count：12 Percentile：62.36(Nuclear Science & Technology)Tokai reprocessing plant (TRP) has discharged low-level liquid-wastes to the Pacific Ocean since the start of its operation in 1977. We have performed the liquid effluent monitoring to realize an appropriate radioactive discharge control. Comparing simple and rapid analytical methods with labor-intensive radiochemical analyses demonstrated that the gross-alpha and gross-beta activities agreed well with the total activities of plutonium (Pu) isotopes and major beta-emitters (e.g. 
Sr and 
Cs), respectively. The records of the radioactive liquid discharge from the TRP showed that the normalized releases of all nuclides, except for 
H, were three or four orders of magnitude lower than those from the oversea reprocessing plants. This was probably due to the installation of multi-stage evaporators in the liquid waste treatment process in 1980. Plutonium radioactivity ratios (
Pu/
Pu) of the liquid effluents were determined to be 1.3-3.7, while those of the seabed sediment samples collected around the discharge point were 0.003-0.059, indicating no remarkable accumulation of Pu in the regional aquatic environment. The annual public doses were estimated to be less than 0.2 
Sv y
from the aquatic pathway. Thus, we concluded that there were no significant radiological effects on the aquatic environment and the public during the past 30-year operation of the TRP.
Takeishi, Minoru; Miyagawa, Naoto; Nakano, Masanao; Mizutani, Tomoko; Kono, Takahiko; Hiyama, Yoshinori*; Fujii, Jun*; Kikuchi, Masaaki*; Sagawa, Fumiaki*; Otani, Kazunori*
JAEA-Review 2007-041, 130 Pages, 2007/12
JAEA-Review-2007-041.pdf:25.46MB
Based on the regulations (the safety regulation of Tokai reprocessing plant, the safety regulation of nuclear fuel material usage facilities, radiation safety rule, the regulation about prevention from radiation hazards due to radioisotopes, which are related with the nuclear reguratory acts, and the local agreement concerning with security and environment conservation around nuclear facilities, the water pollution control law, and byelaw of Ibaraki prefecture), this report describes the effluent control results of low level liquid waste discharged from the JAEA's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories in the fiscal year 2006, from 1st April 2006 to 31st March 2007. In this period, the concentrations and the quantities of the discharged radioactive materials from the reprocessing plant, the plutonium fuel fabrication facilities, and the other facilities were much lower than the authorized limits of the above regulations.
Takeishi, Minoru; Miyagawa, Naoto; Uezu, Yasuhiro; Nakano, Masanao; Koarashi, Jun; Mizutani, Tomoko; Kono, Takahiko; Hiyama, Yoshinori*; Fujii, Yoshiyuki*; Kikuchi, Masaaki*; et al.
JAEA-Review 2006-024, 133 Pages, 2006/09
JAEA-Review-2006-024.pdf:6.69MB
Based on the regulations (the safety regulation of Tokai reprocessing plant, the safety regulation of nuclear fuel usage facilities, radiation safety rule, the regulation about prevention from radiation hazards due to radioisotopes, which are related with the nuclear reguratory acts, and the local agreement concerning with security and environment conservation around nuclear facilities, the water pollution control law, and byelaw of Ibaraki prefecture), this report describes the effluent control results of low level liquid waste discharged from the JAEA's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories in the fiscal year 2005, from 1st April 2005 to 31th March 2006. In this period, the concentrations and the quantities of the discharged radioactive materials from the reprocessing plant, the plutonium fuel fabrication facilities, and the other facilities were much lower than the authorized limits of the above regulations.
Notoya, Masako; Ayame, Junko; Komori, Yuko; Gunji, Ikuko; Rimiko, Tabata,; Mizutani, Tomoko; Rika, Yonezawa,
JNC TN8440 2005-009, 206 Pages, 2005/08
JNC-TN8440-2005-009.pdf:100.86MB
The Public Acceptance(P.A.) team, "Sweet Potato", was established in December 1996 to promote public understanding of nuclear. Tokai Village has been the center of nuclear energy development in Japan for almost forty years. Although the residents have been very supportive, the critical JCO accident in 1999 caused them a great deal of anxiety and distrust. Soon after, the P.A. team's objectives were altered to accommodate the resulting new needs of the public. The focus was shifted to local residents and young people in order that they would have better understanding of nuclear energy. Since 2001, one of the P.A. team's main activities has been giving "Nuclear Disaster and Radiation Prevention" and "Energy and Radiation" presentations at elementary schools and junior high schools throughout the Tokai region. This paper presents the findings, results and lessons learned from these and other activities, and will contribute to the future work of the PA team.
Takeishi, Minoru; Naoto, Miyagawa,; Hitoshi, Watanabe,; Uezu, Yasuhiro; Mizutani, Tomoko; Hiyama, Yoshinori*; Fujii, Jun*
JNC TN8440 2005-008, 136 Pages, 2005/08
JNC-TN8440-2005-008.pdf:4.14MB
This report was written about the effluent control in JNC Tokai Works from 1st April 2004 to 31th March 2005. In this period, the quantities and concentrations of retroactivities in liquid waste from Tokai Works were under the discharge limits of "Safety Regulations for the Tokai Reprocessing Plant " and regulations of government.
Shinohara, Kunihiko; Takeishi, Minoru; Hitoshi, Watanabe,; Uezu, Yasuhiro; Mizutani, Tomoko; Hiyama, Yoshinori*; Fujii, Jun*
JNC TN8440 2004-015, 138 Pages, 2004/12
JNC-TN8440-2004-015.pdf:7.78MB
This report was written about the effluent control in JNC Tokai Works from 1st April 2003 to 31th March 2004. In this period, the quantities and concentrations of retroactivities in liquid waste from Tokai Works were under the discharge limits of "Safety Regulations for the Tokai Reprocessing Plant" and regulations of government.
Ueta, Shohei; Aihara, Jun; Mizutani, Yoshitaka; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sakaba, Nariaki; Tachibana, Yukio; Honda, Masaki*; Tanaka, Hideki*; Furihata, Noboru*
no journal, ,
In the small-sized high temperature gas-cooled reactor, the improved fuel of which the burnup is designed over 100 GWd/t is used in order to upgrade economy and to decrease radioactive waste. On the other hand, to attain over three times higher burnup than that of a conventional HTTR fuel, 33 GWd/t, researches and developments of the fuel should be needed with regards to the design preventing the fuel from the failure by internal pressure due to gases in the coated fuel particle, the technologies for fabrication of the improved fuel, and the irradiation test to confirm its integrity under the irradiation. A design work, fabrication tests and a plan of the irradiation test for the improved fuel in order to demonstrate the performance are reported.
Ueta, Shohei; Aihara, Jun; Mizutani, Yoshitaka; Ohashi, Hirofumi; Sakaba, Nariaki; Tachibana, Yukio; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko
no journal, ,
Clean Burn High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (CBHTR) is loaded with the coated fuel particle having a fuel kernel made with solid solution of plutonium dioxide (PuO
) and yttrium stabilized zirconia (YSZ) as the inert matrix. To establish the fundamental technique of fabrication of PuO-YSZ coated fuel particle, research plans on fabrications of the fuel kernel by sol-gel process and of multi-ceramics coatings by chemical vapor deposition are reported.
Mizutani, Jun*; Takamura, Hiroyuki*; Ebara, Shinji*; Hashizume, Hidetoshi*; Yamano, Hidemasa
no journal, ,
In cold leg piping of primary cooling system of Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR), high Reynolds (Re) number and three dimensional arrangement of 3 elbow structure forms complex turbulent flow field, and pressure fluctuation induced by separation vortex release is postulated. inhibition of the separation is considered to lower the pressure fluctuation and changing inflow condition indicated possibility of inhibiting pressure fluctuation. In this study, 1/7 scale flow testing device simulating JSFR primary cold-leg piping was used to study conditions to reduce separation.
