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Structural investigation of thorium in molten lithium-calcium fluoride mixtures for salt treatment process in molten salt reactor

Numakura, Masahiko*; Sato, Nobuaki*; Bessada, C.*; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Akatsuka, Hiroshi*; Nezu, Atsushi*; Shimohara, Yasuaki*; Tajima, Keisuke*; Kawano, Hirokazu*; Nakahagi, Takeshi*; et al.

Progress in Nuclear Energy, 53(7), p.994 - 998, 2011/11

 Times Cited Count:13 Percentile:69.86(Nuclear Science & Technology)

X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements on thorium fluoride in molten lithium-calcium fluoride mixtures and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of zirconium and yttrium fluoride in molten lithium-calcium fluoride mixtures have been carried out. In the molten state, coordination number of thorium and inter ionic distances between thorium and fluorine in the first neighbor are nearly constant in all mixtures. However the fluctuation factors (Debye-Waller factor and C$$_3$$ cumulant) increase until $$x$$CaF$$_2$$ = 0.17 and decrease by addition of excess CaF$$_2$$. It means that the local structure around Th$$^{4+}$$ is disordered until $$x$$CaF$$_2$$=0.17 and stabilized over $$x$$CaF$$_2$$ = 0.17. The variation of fluctuation factors is related to the number density of F$$^-$$ in ThF$$_4$$ mixtures and the stability of local structure around Th$$^{4+}$$ increases with decreasing the number density of F$$^-$$ in ThF$$_4$$ mixtures. This tendency is common to those in the ZrF$$_4$$ and YF$$_3$$ mixtures.

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Study on mixing behavior of rare earth chloride in molten alkali chloride by molecular dynamics (MD) calculation

Numakura, Masahiko; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Suzuki, Shinichi; Kobayashi, Toru*; Akutsu, Kazuhiro; Madden, P. A.*; Okamoto, Yoshihiro

JAEA-Research 2009-003, 26 Pages, 2009/04

JAEA-Research-2009-003.pdf:4.29MB

We investigated the mixing behavior of molten TbCl$$_3$$ in LiCl-KCl eutectuic melt by MD simulation. Also, simulation of molten YCl$$_3$$ and LaCl$$_3$$ systems were performed to elucidate the difference of the structural change by the difference in cation size (Y$$^{3+}$$$$<$$Tb$$^{3+}$$$$<$$La$$^{3+}$$). The coordination number of the molten pure YCl$$_3$$, TbCl$$_3$$ and LaCl$$_3$$ are mainly 6, 7 and 8 respectively. We consider that, in the molten pure state, the coordination number is influenced by the cation size. However, independent of cation size, the molten MCl$$_3$$ tend to be formed the stable 6-fold structure by the mixing with LiCl-KCl eutectic. And, MD simulations on MCl$$_3$$-LiCl and MCl$$_3$$-KCl systems revealed that the mixing effect was different between LiCl and KCl.

Journal Articles

XAFS studies on actinide-pyridine-diamide complexes for development of an innovative separation process

Shiwaku, Hideaki; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Kobayashi, Toru; Numakura, Masahiko; Suzuki, Shinichi; Okamoto, Yoshihiro

Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Speciation, Techniques, and Facilities for Radioactive Materials at Synchrotron Light Sources (Actinide-XAS-2006), p.301 - 306, 2007/05

no abstracts in English

Oral presentation

Structural analysis of lanthanide-1,10-phenanthroline complexes in alcohol solution by XAFS and UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy

Numakura, Masahiko; Ikeda, Atsushi; Kobayashi, Toru; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Suzuki, Shinichi; Yaita, Tsuyoshi

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no abstracts in English

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The XAFS structural analysis of the actinide and lanthanide complexes with the hybrid type chelating agent pyridine diamide (PDA)

Shiwaku, Hideaki; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Kobayashi, Toru; Numakura, Masahiko; Suzuki, Shinichi; Okamoto, Yoshihiro

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no abstracts in English

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Synthesis of new oxygen-nitrogen donor type ligands and its ion recognition properties for tri- and tetra-valent actinides and lanthanides

Shiwaku, Hideaki; Kobayashi, Toru; Numakura, Masahiko; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Suzuki, Shinichi; Suda, Hiroki*; Fujii, Yuki*

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no abstracts in English

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Influence of substituent effect phenanthroline on the structure of lanthanides complexes

Numakura, Masahiko; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Kobayashi, Toru; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Suzuki, Shinichi; Ikeda, Atsushi*

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Influences of thee different phenanthorolines (Phens) with which substituent differs, i.e., Phen, Methyl-Phen:MPhen, and Nitro-Phen:NPhen, on their structure and electronic structure formation were studied by EXAFS and XPS methods. The radial structural functions of EXAFS suggested that Lu ion forms 1:3, 1:2, and 1:1 complexes in metal to Phen ratios with Phen, MPhen, and NPhen, respectively. Moreover, the process of which Phen nitrogen with a small backscattering factor exchanges with chloride ion with a large one was clearly observed in the radial structural function of EXAFS. XPS spectra did not show any difference in both the valence level and inner-shell structures among the spectra for three Phens, while clear differences on the spectra of valence level between light lanthanide and heavy lanthanide complexes were observed.

Oral presentation

Quick scan XAFS study of high-temperature molten salts

Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Numakura, Masahiko; Kobayashi, Toru; Akutsu, Kazuhiro; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Suzuki, Shinichi

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We have studied peculiar behaviors of lanthanide ion in molten chlorides by using high-energy XAFS measurement techniques in the SPring-8. The sample is usually used under static condition in the measurement, since it is sealed off in a quartz cell under reduced pressure. However, there are many reactions in the pyrochemistry of spent nuclear fuels. In the present study, we tried to obtain a XAFS pattern in a few minutes using the Quick scan XAFS (QXAFS) technique developed in the BL11XU, SPring-8. In the QXAFS measurement, a XAFS spectrum of the La K-absorption edge of molten salts were obtained in 5 minutes. It is far shorter than 30-60 minutes in the normal step-scan XAFS measurement. According to the data analysis, it was clarified that the QXAFS data can be used enough to observe molten salt reactions.

Oral presentation

High-energy XAFS study of molten terbium trichloride mixtures

Numakura, Masahiko; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Suzuki, Shinichi; Kobayashi, Toru; Akutsu, Kazuhiro; Matsuura, Haruaki*

no journal, , 

The high energy XAFS using K-absorption edge is very effective to obtain information on behavior of small amount of rare earth elements in molten chlorides. In the present study, we performed the XAFS measurement to obtain the local structure change for molten TbCl$$_3$$ and the mixture of 40% TbCl$$_3$$ with LiCl-KCl eutectic, 15% TbCl$$_3$$ with LiCl-KCl eutectic and 1.5% TbCl$$_3$$ with LiCl-KCl eutectic. We found that as the concentration of TbCl$$_3$$ is lower, the coordination number decrease a little and become near 6 but the nearest Tb-Cl distance is almost same. In addition, we found that Debye-Waller factor become very small. We also performed molecular dynamics simulation to obtain the information of structure change. This simulation showed the intense structure change occurs at vicinity of 25% TbCl$$_3$$ with LiCl-KCl eutectic. Its simulation result accorded with this XAFS experiment result.

Oral presentation

Separation of lanthanide ion by aromatic nitrogen ligands and fluorescent property of the extracted complex

Shiwaku, Hideaki; Akutsu, Kazuhiro; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Kobayashi, Toru; Numakura, Masahiko; Nakano, Yoshiharu*; Mahara, Saori*; Fujii, Yuki*

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

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Study on the molecular design of new compound for actinide recognition

Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Ikeda, Takashi; Kobayashi, Toru*; Suzuki, Shinichi; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Ikeda, Atsushi; Akutsu, Kazuhiro; Numakura, Masahiko

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

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Extraction properties of lanthanides by various aromatic nitrogen ligands

Akutsu, Kazuhiro; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Suzuki, Shinichi; Ikeda, Atsushi; Kobayashi, Toru*; Numakura, Masahiko; Mahara, Saori*; Nakano, Yoshiharu*; Fujii, Yuki*; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

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Structural analysis of molten TbF$$_3$$-LiF

Numakura, Masahiko*; Bessada, C.*; Ory, S.*; Rakhamatullin, A.*; Akatsuka, Hiroshi*; Nezu, Atsushi*; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Matsuura, Haruaki*

no journal, , 

To investigate the local structure of molten TbF$$_3$$ - LiF (x[TbF$$_3$$ = 0.2), X-ray absorption fine structure technique (XAFS) was applied using by BL11XU in SPring-8. By several analyses, e.g. X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry, it had been confirmed that TbF$$_{3}$$ and boron nitride reacted at less than 1073 K even under helium gas flow environment, thus, we focused on the spectrum obtained below 1073 K. According to the curve fitting, the interionic distance obtained from the data of heating between 933 K and 1013 K was shorter than solid state. It would be surely molten state of TbF$$_3$$ - LiF (x[TbF$$_3$$] = 0.2), since the value of distance obtained, i.e. 2.26${AA}$ corresponds to the sum of ionic radii of Tb$$^{3+}$$ and F$$^-$$.

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