Geochemical factors for secondary mineral formation at naturally-occurring hyperalkaline spring in Oman ophiolite

Anraku, Sohtaro; Matsubara, Isamu*; Morimoto, Kazuya*; Sato, Tsutomu*

Nendo Kagaku, 55(2), p.17 - 30, 2017/00

http://doi.org/10.11362/jcssjnendokagaku.55.2_17

Anionic radionuclides are important for the long-term safety assessment of Japanese transuranic (TRU) waste disposal facilities. Degradation of cementitious materials used to construct the TRU waste disposal facilities, however, can produce a hyperalkaline leachate and so it is necessary to understand the reaction mechanisms that will control the behavior and fate of anionic radionuclides under these hyperalkaline conditions. An excellent natural analogue site to study relevant reaction mechanisms is provided in Oman where hyperalkaline spring waters (pH 11) from serpentinized peridotites discharge into moderately alkaline rivers. Aragonite was found in all secondary mineral samples, with accessory minerals of calcite, layered double hydroxide (LDH) and brucite. LDH was observed at the high Al concentration springs and brucite at the low Al concentration springs. Calcite was only found close to the springs. Distal calcite formation was inhibited due to high Mg concentrations in the river water. The spatial distribution of minerals therefore implicates the importance of the mixing ratio of spring to river water and the relative chemical compositions of the spring and river waters. Supporting mixing model calculations could successfully reproduce the precipitation of aragonite and LDH. The observed decrease in Ca concentration could be explained by aragonite precipitation. pH exerted a strong control on the precipitation of LDH and so too, therefore, on Al concentration. In the mixing water experiments containing up to 40% river water, LDH and brucite were both oversaturated, but brucite was not always identified by XRD. The possible inhibition of brucite by LDH precipitation was an unexpected result.

Accuracy of prediction method of cryogenic tensile strength for austenitic stainless steels in ITER toroidal field coil structure

Sakurai, Takeru; Iguchi, Masahide; Nakahira, Masataka; Saito, Toru*; Morimoto, Masaaki*; Inagaki, Takashi*; Hong, Y.-S.*; Matsui, Kunihiro; Hemmi, Tsutomu; Kajitani, Hideki; et al.

Physics Procedia, 67, p.536 - 542, 2015/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.06.072

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has developed the tensile strength prediction method at liquid helium temperature (4K) using the quadratic curve as a function of the content of carbon and nitrogen in order to establish the rationalized quality control of the austenitic stainless steel used in the ITER superconducting coil operating at 4K. ITER is under construction aiming to verify technical demonstration of a nuclear fusion generation. Toroidal Field Coil (TFC), one of superconducting system in ITER, have been started procurement of materials in 2012. JAEA is producing materials for actual product which are the forged materials with shape of rectangle, round bar, asymmetry and etc. JAEA has responsibility to procure all ITER TFC Structures. In this process, JAEA obtained many tensile strength of both room temperature and 4K about these structural materials, for example, JJ1: High manganese stainless steel for structure (0.03C-12Cr-12Ni-10Mn-5Mo- 0.24N) and 316LN: High nitrogen containing stainless steel (0.2Nitrogen). Based on these data, accuracy of 4K strength prediction method for actual TFC Structure materials was evaluated and reported in this study.

Production and decay properties of Hs and Hs

Sato, Nozomi; Haba, Hiromitsu*; Ichikawa, Takatoshi*; Kaji, Daiya*; Kudo, Yuki*; Morimoto, Koji*; Morita, Kosuke*; Ozeki, Kazutaka*; Sumita, Takayuki*; Yoneda, Akira*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 80(9), p.094201_1 - 094201_7, 2011/09

https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.80.094201

Decay properties of Hs and Hs produced in the Pb(Fe, ) [=1, 2] reactions were studied using a gas-filled recoil ion separator at the linear accelerator facility of RIKEN. A total of 6 decay chains were assigned to Hs. Cross sections for the Hs production in the Pb(Fe,) and Pb(Fe,) reactions were measured to be pb and pb, respectively. The isotope Hs decayed with a half-life of ms by -particle emission and spontaneous fission. The -particle energy of Hs was observed at 10.610.04 and 10.800.08 MeV. The spontaneous fission branch of Hs was found to be .

Decommissioning project of uranium conversion plant, 6; Analysis of work management data

Tanimoto, Masataka; Ikegami, Sohei; Tokuyasu, Takashi; Morimoto, Yasuyuki; Sugitsue, Noritake; Tachibana, Mitsuo; Ishigami, Tsutomu

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

A Plan of countermeasures against collapse in shaft sinking at great depth in soft sedimentary rock

Hagihara, Takeshi*; Nago, Makito*; Minamide, Masashi*; Ogawa, Hiroyuki*; Uyama, Mikinori*; Demma, Keisuke*; Kisu, Yoshio*; Morimoto, Tsutomu*; Kudo, Hajime; Tsusaka, Kimikazu

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Status of ITER TF coil procurement

Matsui, Kunihiro; Hemmi, Tsutomu; Iguchi, Masahide; Kajitani, Hideki; Nishi, Hiroshi; Chida, Yutaka; Morimoto, Masaaki; Koizumi, Norikiyo

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Mechanism and countermeasure of crack in the concrete liner for a shaft in soft sedimentary rock

Minamide, Masashi*; Hagihara, Takeshi*; Nago, Makito*; Ogawa, Hiroyuki*; Uyama, Mikinori*; Kisu, Yoshio*; Morimoto, Tsutomu*; Yabuki, Yoshio*; Kudo, Hajime; Inagaki, Daisuke; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Manufacturing strategy for ITER toroidal field coil structure

Hong, Y.-S.*; Iguchi, Masahide; Morimoto, Masaaki; Nakahira, Masataka; Hemmi, Tsutomu; Nishi, Hiroshi; Koizumi, Norikiyo

no journal, , 

Sector manufacturing and assembly of the JT-60SA vacuum vessel

Shibama, Yusuke; Okano, Fuminori; Yagyu, Junichi; Kaminaga, Atsushi; Miyo, Yasuhiko; Hayakawa, Atsuro*; Sagawa, Keiich*; Mochida, Tsutomu*; Morimoto, Tamotsu*; Hamada, Takashi*; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Fission experiment using Es-254 at JAEA Tokai tandem accelerator facility

Hirose, Kentaro; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Makii, Hiroyuki; Orlandi, R.; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Asai, Masato; Sato, Tetsuya; Ito, Yuta; Suzaki, Fumi; Nagame, Yuichiro*; et al.

no journal, , 

A specific phenomenon was found in fission-fragment mass distributions for nuclides around A=258 by spontaneous fission measurements. Fm256 splits into light and heavy fragments, like uranium isotopes, making two peaks in their mass distribution, whereas a sharp single peak was found in that of Fm258 which has only two more neutrons. In order to study such a specific phenomenon more widely, we performed an experiment of the multinucleon transfer fission in the O18+Es254 reaction at JAEA Tokai tandem accelerator facility.