Applicability evaluation of candidate technologies for nuclear material quantification in fuel debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station; Passive gamma technique

Shiba, Tomooki; Tomikawa, Hirofumi; Sagara, Hiroshi*; Ishimi, Akihiro

57th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM 2016), Vol.1, p.365 - 374, 2017/02

Fission products (FPs) such as Ce and Eu seem to be very low volatile even in high temperature environment in the severe accident of nuclear reactors. They are supposed to chemically coexist with nuclear fuel. In our passive gamma ray spectroscopy, gamma rays from such FPs are measured and their amount and burnup are estimated. Then we multiply the mass ratio of the FPs and nuclear materials, and we obtain the mass of nuclear material of interest. According to hypothetical fuel debris and canister models, we performed simulation of leakage gamma rays from canister of debris. gamma ray source spectra were derived from the composition of the hypothetical fuel debris and the photon transport calculation was carried out. In addition, we conducted experiments of gamma ray measurement from intact spent fuels irradiated in the Experimental Fast Reactor Joyo in order to validate the prediction performance of the simulation by the comparison of the experiments and simulation.

The H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB); A Comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts

Yamasaki, Chisato*; Murakami, Katsuhiko*; Fujii, Yasuyuki*; Sato, Yoshiharu*; Harada, Erimi*; Takeda, Junichi*; Taniya, Takayuki*; Sakate, Ryuichi*; Kikugawa, Shingo*; Shimada, Makoto*; et al.

Nucleic Acids Research, 36(Database), p.D793 - D799, 2008/01

https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm999

Here we report the new features and improvements in our latest release of the H-Invitational Database, a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts. H-InvDB, originally developed as an integrated database of the human transcriptome based on extensive annotation of large sets of fulllength cDNA (FLcDNA) clones, now provides annotation for 120 558 human mRNAs extracted from the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD), in addition to 54 978 human FLcDNAs, in the latest release H-InvDB. We mapped those human transcripts onto the human genome sequences (NCBI build 36.1) and determined 34 699 human gene clusters, which could define 34 057 protein-coding and 642 non-protein-coding loci; 858 transcribed loci overlapped with predicted pseudogenes.

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Katsunuma, Yoshio*; Higuchi, Masanori*; Shiba, Akihiro*; Kataigi, Isao*

JNC TJ7410 2005-011, 64 Pages, 2004/02

JNC-TJ7410-2005-011.PDF:14.94MB

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Passive spectrometry of low-volatile FPs for accountancy of special nuclear material in molten core material of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Detectability of leakage -ray and fundamental characteristics of U-Ce/Eu compound

Tomikawa, Hirofumi; Sagara, Hiroshi*; Shiba, Tomooki*; Ishimi, Akihiro; Osaka, Masahiko; Watahiki, Masaru; Kuno, Yusuke

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For nuclear material accountancy of molten core material in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station units 1, 2 and 3 (1F1, 1F2 and 1F3), a variety of technologies are being evaluated from the viewpoint of applicability for in-situ measurement. For one of the technologies, a feasibility study of passive spectroscopy of low-volatile fission products (FPs) has been performed by reviewing TMI-2 experience, and studying the correlation of actinides and FPs inventory in the cores of 1F1, 1F2 and 1F3, considering the sensitivity of axial neutron spectrum, void, burnup, enrichment distribution unique to BWR fuel, and leakage -ray from molten core materials sphere model. In this paper, numerical simulation of leakage -ray from molten core materials in a hypothetical canister is dealt with for determination of radioactivity of low-volatile high-energy emission FPs, which could be utilized for special nuclear material (SNM) quantity estimation coupled with SNM/FPs ratio derived from core inventory calculations. This paper also presents the summary of survey results of high-temperature chemical stability of lanthanides coexisting with nuclear material in a certain atmospheres and temperatures simulating severe accident.