Conceptual design for Japan Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor, 4; Developmental study of steel plate reinforced concrete containment vessel for JSFR

Negishi, Kazuo; Hosoya, Takusaburo; Sato, Kenichiro*; Somaki, Takahiro*; Matsuo, Ippei*; Shimizu, Katsusuke*

Proceedings of 2009 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '09) (CD-ROM), p.9418_1 - 9418_7, 2009/05

An innovative containment vessel, namely Steel plate reinforced Concrete Containment Vessel (SCCV) is developed for Japan Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (JSFR). Reducing plant construction cost is one of the most important issues for commercialization of fast reactors. This study investigated construction issues including the building structure and the construction method as well as design issues in terms of the applicability of SCCV to fast reactors. An experimental study including loading and/or heating tests has been carried out to investigate the fundamental structural features, which would be provided to develop methodology to evaluate the feasibility of SCCV under the severe conditions. In this paper, the test plan is described as well as the first test results.

Demonstration tests for manufacturing the ITER vacuum vessel

Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Onozuka, Masanori*; Usui, Yukinori*; Urata, Kazuhiro*; Tsujita, Yoshihiro*; Nakahira, Masataka; Takeda, Nobukazu; Kakudate, Satoshi; Omori, Junji; Shibanuma, Kiyoshi

Fusion Engineering and Design, 82(15-24), p.2081 - 2088, 2007/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2007.08.015

To confirm the manufacturing and assembly process of the ITER vacuum vessel (VV), a series of related tests has been conducted. (1) Using a full-scale partial mock-up, fabrication methods are to be examined to determine feasibility. (2) To simulate a series of field-joint assembly operations, a test stand was built. (3) To provide an appropriate shield gas supply on the back side of the outer shell during field-joint welding, three types of back-seal structures have been tested. (4) The applicability of UT methods for volumetric inspection has been investigated. (5) Applicability of Liquid Penetrant Testing as a surface examination for the VV interior surface (i.e. ultra-vacuum side) has been investigated.

Thermo-structural analysis and design consideration of the replaceable backwall in IFMIF liquid lithium target

Nakamura, Hiroo; Ida, Mizuho; Chida, Teruo; Shiba, Kiyoyuki; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Sugimoto, Masayoshi

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 367-370(2), p.1543 - 1548, 2007/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2007.04.021

The IFMIF is an accelerator-based intense neutron source for testing candidate materials of fusion reactor. Intense neutrons are emitted inside the Li flow through a backwall. The backwall made of 316L stainless steel or RAFM is attached to the target assembly with a lip seal welded by YAG laser. Since the backwall is operating under a severe neutron irradiation of 50 dpa/year and a maximum nuclear heating rate of 25 W/cm, thermo-structural design is one of critical issues in a target design. Thermal stress was calculated by ABAQUS code. As a permissible stress, yield strength at 300C was used. In a case of the 316 stainless steel backwall, a maximum thermal stress was more than the permissible stress(164MPa). On the other hand, in case of the F82H backwall, a maximum thermal stress is was below the permissible stress(455MPa). Therefore, F82H is recommended as a backwall material.

Study on assembly techniques and procedures for ITER tokamak device

Obara, Kenjiro; Kakudate, Satoshi; Shibanuma, Kiyoshi; Sago, Hiromi*; Ue, Koichi*; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Onozuka, Masanori*

JAEA-Technology 2006-034, 85 Pages, 2006/06

JAEA-Technology-2006-034.pdf:9.18MB

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) tokamak is composed of many kinds of components. The dimensions and weight of the respective components are around a few ten-meters and several hundred-tons. In addition, the whole tokamak assembly, which are composed of these components, are roughly estimated, 26 m in diameter, 18 m in height and over 16,500 tons in total weight. On the other hand, as for positioning and assembly tolerances of these components are required to be a high accuracy of 3mm in spite of large size and heavy weight. The assembly procedures and techniques of the ITER tokamak are therefore studied, taking account of the tolerance requirements. Based on the above background, the assembly procedures and techniques, which are able to assemble the tokamak with high accuracy, are described in the present report. The following newly developed tokamak assembly procedures and techniques, jigs and tools for assembly and metrology concept based on the available knowledge and experiences of the installation of the large components, in order to improve the IT (International Team) design toward the more realistic one. As a result, we show the realistic tokamak assembly procedures and techniques to be able to assemble the large and heavy ITER tokamak with high accuracy. (1)Assembly and alignment of the toroidal field coil with high accuracy. (2)Simplification of the assembly procedures, and the jigs/tools and procedures to reduce the misalignment. (3)Assembly procedures and techniques for the vacuum vessel to reduce the weld distortion. (4)Supporting procedures and techniques of the vacuum vessel sector to prevent the toridal field coil from the deformation due to the dead weight of the vacuum vessel sector. (5)Datum points and lines for the required positions and assembly tolerances during tokamak assembly.

Review of JAERI activities on the IFMIF liquid lithium target in FY2004

Nakamura, Hiroo; Ida, Mizuho*; Matsuhiro, Kenjiro; Fischer, U.*; Hayashi, Takumi; Mori, Seiji*; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Nishitani, Takeo; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Simakov, S.*; et al.

JAERI-Review 2005-005, 40 Pages, 2005/03

JAERI-Review-2005-005.pdf:3.52MB

The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is being jointly planned to provide an accelerator-based Deuterium-Lithium (Li) neutron source to produce intense high energy neutrons (2 MW/m) up to 200 dpa and a sufficient irradiation volume (500 cm) for testing the candidate materials and components up to about a full lifetime of their anticipated use in ITER and DEMO. To realize such a condition, 40 MeV deuteron beam with a current of 250 mA is injected into high speed liquid Li flow with a speed of 20 m/s. In target system, radioactive species such as 7Be, tritium and activated corrosion products are generated. In addition, back wall operates under severe conditions of neutron irradiation damage (about 50 dpa/y). In this paper, the thermal and thermal stress analyses, the accessibility evaluation of the IFMIF Li loop, and the tritium inventory and permeation of the IFMIF Li loop are summarized as JAERI activities on the IFMIF target system performed in FY2004.

Numerical evaluation of experimental models to investigate the dynamic behavior of the ITER tokamak assembly

Onozuka, Masanori*; Takeda, Nobukazu; Nakahira, Masataka; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Nakamura, Tomomichi*

Fusion Engineering and Design, 69(1-4), p.757 - 762, 2003/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-3796(03)00139-X

The dynamic behavior of the ITER tokamak assembly has been investigated. Three experimental models have been considered to validate the numerical analysis methods for the dynamic events, mainly seismic events. A 1/8-scaled tokamak model, which is based on the 1998 ITER design, is under construction. Non-linear vibration characteristics, such as damping, can only be identified by a full-scale model. Therefore, a full-scale gravity support structure for the coil system has been designed and will be tested. In addition, for the sub-scaled tokamak model, the VV is assumed to be a rigid structure. This assumption is to be verified using a 1/20-scaled model. The above experimental models and their testing conditions have analytically and numerically evaluated. For example, both the static and dynamic spring constants obtained by static analysis and eigen-value analysis, respectively, were evaluated to be in good agreement.

Geometrical influence on repeated impact durability of alumina insulation film coated by plasma spraying method

Kanari, Moriyasu*; Abe, Tetsuya; Tanzawa, Sadamitsu; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; ;

JAERI-Research 99-012, 21 Pages, 1999/02

JAERI-Research-99-012.pdf:2.26MB

no abstracts in English

Design of the ITER vacuum vessel

Ioki, Kimihiro*; G.Johnson*; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; D.Williamson*

Fusion Engineering and Design, 27, p.39 - 51, 1995/00

https://doi.org/10.1016/0920-3796(94)00310-4

no abstracts in English

Aseismatic analysis of ITER vacuum vessel, 1; Modeling and eigenvalue analysis

Futakawa, Masatoshi; Koizumi, Koichi; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Takatsu, Hideyuki; ;

JAERI-M 92-164, 58 Pages, 1992/11

JAERI-M-92-164.pdf:1.92MB

no abstracts in English

Design of divertor support structure

; Nishio, Satoshi; ; Koizumi, Koichi; Shimizu, Katsusuke*; Sasaki, Takashi*; Tada, Eisuke

JAERI-M 92-108, 62 Pages, 1992/07

JAERI-M-92-108.pdf:1.59MB

no abstracts in English