少量燃料デブリの構外輸送に向けたA型輸送容器の適用性評価

坂本 雅洋; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; Riyana E. S.; 溝上 暢人*; 溝上 伸也*

JAEA-Research 2024-017, 14 Pages, 2025/03

JAEA-Research-2024-017.pdf:1.34MB

東京電力ホールディングス株式会社福島第一原子力発電所では、2号機から燃料デブリの試験的取り出しを行い、回収物を構外輸送し茨城地区で分析することが計画されている。取り出された燃料デブリの分析結果は、将来的な燃料デブリ管理の各工程(取り出し、収納、移送、保管等)の検討にフィードバックされ、必要な技術開発に活用することが期待されている。試験的取り出しでサンプリングされる燃料デブリは数グラム程度が予定されており、その後、段階的に取り出し規模を拡大させていくことになる。試験的取り出しにおいては、構外輸送に係る関係法令に則って事前に合理的な輸送容器を検討することが必要になる。本報では物質組成や性状が不明瞭な燃料デブリ回収物の安全評価に資するため、少量燃料デブリの構外輸送に向けたA型輸送容器の適用性評価を行った。

Development of a theoretical scaling factor method for the inventory estimation of difficult-to-measure nuclide Cs-135 in fuel debris and radioactive wastes

坂本 雅洋; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; Riyana E. S.; 金子 純一*; 溝上 暢人*; 溝上 伸也*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 10 Pages, 2025/00

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2025.2478926

In this paper, we propose a new nuclide inventory estimation method based on computational methods, called a "theoretical scaling factor method" for difficult-to-measure (DTM) nuclides in fuel debris and radioactive wastes. The theoretical scaling factor method provides a method similar to a conventional scaling factor method. The theoretical scaling factor method, however, does not require performing many measurements to obtain correlations between a key nuclide which is easy-to-measure and a DTM nuclide. Instead of actual analytical measurements, the results of theoretical calculations are used. A correlation equation between the key nuclide and the DTM nuclide is created based on the results of theoretical calculations, and the DTM nuclide is deterministically estimated using the measurement value of the key nuclide only. In this paper, we selected Cs-135 as the DTM nuclide and Cs-137 as the key nuclide. Cs-135 has a long half-life of 2.310 years and is one of the important fission products in the safety evaluation for the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste, because it dissolves and migrates in groundwater easily. We confirmed the validity of the proposed method using measured data of Cs-137 and Cs-135 on radioactive wastes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) accident obtained by many researchers. It can be used as a rational and efficient technology to reduce the analysis costs of various types of fuel debris and radioactive waste present at 1F.

Characterization of bremsstrahlung and -rays of fuel debris

松村 太伊知; 奥村 啓介; 藤田 学*; 坂本 雅洋; 寺島 顕一; Riyana, E. S.

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 199, p.110298_1 - 110298_8, 2022/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110298

The characterization of bremsstrahlung and -rays from fuel debris differs from that of spent fuels evaluated to date, due to factors such as material composition and release of volatile fission products. In this work, in order to clarify the conditions under which the effect of bremsstrahlung compared to the total photons (bremsstrahlung and -rays) in fuel debris is maximized, the average energies and dose rates from the energy spectra of bremsstrahlung and -rays on the fuel debris surface were obtained using a Monte Carlo simulation. In the simulation, the average energies and dose rates were evaluated with consideration of the composition, size, fission product release, and retrieval time of the fuel debris. The simulation showed that the composition with the largest amount of change to the average total photons energy caused by bremsstrahlung was the molten fuel debris, and the composition with the maximum fraction of bremsstrahlung in the dose rate was the UO. The maximum value of the fraction of bremsstrahlung in the dose rate was evaluated to be about 17%. This work is expected to contribute to the prediction of the radiation characteristics of the fuel debris that will be retrieved from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the near future.

Gamma detector response simulation inside the pedestal of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Riyana, E. S.; 奥村 啓介; 寺島 顕一; 松村 太伊知; 坂本 雅洋

Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 7(3), p.19-00543_1 - 19-00543_8, 2020/06

https://doi.org/10.1299/mej.19-00543

Prediction of the fuel debris location and distribution inside the primary containment vessel (PCV) of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important to decide further decommissioning step and strategy. The radiation measurements in the past internal investigations have not yet provided enough information to predict fuel debris location and its distribution inside PCV. To support further measurement efforts, we simulate the detector response inside the PCV. The calculation result could provide a base on deciding suitable detector systems to assist the efforts on searching, localizing and defining distributions of the fuel debris.

JMTRを用いた放射性医薬品製造プロセスの整備計画

飯村 光一; 坂本 太一; 菅野 勝; 堀 直彦

FAPIG, (178), p.14 - 18, 2009/02

日本原子力研究開発機構大洗研究開発センターでは、2011年度に材料試験炉(JMTR)を再稼働させる予定で改修計画が進められている。再稼働後におけるJMTRの有効利用の一環として、放射性医薬品として核医学の分野で最も多く用いられているテクネチウム-99m(Tc)の親核種であるモリブデン-99(Mo)の製造が計画されている。Moは、その供給をすべて輸入に依存している状況にあることから、産業界と共同でMoの一部国産化を目指すものである。本書では、Moの製造に必要な照射装置の選定や照射後工程において製品化のために必要な装置等の基本計画について紹介する。

JMTRを用いたMo製造設備の概念検討

飯村 光一; 細川 甚作; 菅野 勝; 北島 敏雄; 中川 哲也; 坂本 太一; 堀 直彦; 河村 弘

JAEA-Technology 2008-035, 47 Pages, 2008/06

JAEA-Technology-2008-035.pdf:7.91MB

日本原子力研究開発機構大洗研究開発センターでは、2011年度に材料試験炉(JMTR)を再稼働させる予定で改修計画が進められている。再稼働後におけるJMTRの有効利用の一環として、放射性医薬品として核医学の分野で最も多く用いられているテクネチウム-99m(Tc)の親核種であるモリブデン-99(Mo)の製造が計画されている。Moは、その供給をすべて輸入に依存している状況にあることから、産業界と共同でMoの一部国産化を目指すものである。本報告書では、Moの製造に必要な照射装置の選定,構成及び照射後工程において製品化のために必要な装置等の技術的な検討並びに製造にかかわるコスト面の検討結果について述べる。

Preliminary study of neutron intensity and spectrum of various fuel debris

松村 太伊知; 奥村 啓介; 坂本 雅洋; 寺島 顕一; Riyana E. S.; 近藤 千博*

no journal, , 

Retrieving objects with a small amount, such as a few grams, will begin soon at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station as the start of decommissioning process. The retrieved objects will be sorted as fuel debris and others for reducing the amount of long-time storage. Since the fuel debris emits neutrons, the knowledge of emitted neutron features is necessary for the design of neutron detectors. For this purpose, we estimated the number and energy spectra of (, ) and the spontaneous fission neutrons emitted from 1 g of fuel debris by calculation using the SOURCES 4C code. The calculations were performed for five types of fuel debris, according to the elapsed time from the accident, burnup, and fuel type. The results showed that the average neutron energy is 2 MeV regardless of the fuel debris type, however, the intensity changed four orders of magnitude according to the fuel debris type.

Time dependent correlation between the criticality and short-half-life noble-gas fission products of fuel debris

Riyana E. S.; 坂本 雅洋; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫

no journal, , 

The activity ratio of short half-life noble gas fission products, Kr to Xe (A(Kr/Xe)), has close relationship with the criticality () in the primary containment vessel (PCV) or fuel debris canister, in which fuel debris are accumulated. In this paper, we investigated the time-dependence of the A(Kr/Xe) when the k changes according to an incident such as the change of geometry in the PCV. Our calculation shows a slow change of the A(Kr/Xe) value with the maximum or minimum values before settling in a new stable value after several hours from the change. The applicability and the suitability of the A(Kr/Xe) time-dependent measurement is discussed for the monitoring of the in PCV.

Preliminary study on nuclear materials imaging in fuel debris from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station using a neutron pinhole camera

Riyana E. S.; 坂本 雅洋; 松村 太伊知; 寺島 顕一; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫

no journal, , 

Information on the quantity of nuclear materials in fuel debris is crucial in screening and categorizing the fuel debris for storage consideration and quantity reduction. However, the types of materials (U, Pu, steel, Zr, concrete, etc.), physical form, chemical form, and density involved in the fuel debris may have a wide variety, and it is difficult to quantify nuclear materials inside it. Since most neutron emitters are actinides (such as U, Pu, and Cm) and non-volatile, the distribution of those neutron sources also represents the distribution of nuclear materials in fuel debris. We propose a method to observe nuclear materials distribution in fuel debris by acquiring spatial distribution of neutron sources using a neutron pinhole camera.

14MeV高速中性子を用いた遅発中性子の検出による燃料デブリ中のウラン量評価のシミュレーション

松村 太伊知; 奥村 啓介; 神野 郁夫; Riyana E. S.; 寺島 顕一; 坂本 雅洋; 佐藤 若英*

no journal, , 

福島第一原子力発電所の廃炉において、回収物中の核燃料物質の有無また含有量を把握することは重要である。核燃料物質として中性子によって誘導核分裂を起こすU(MAを含む)を想定し、14MeV高速中性子の照射で発生する遅発中性子を用いてU量の評価が可能な手法を提案する。