Current situation of OECD/NEA, Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel debris (PreADES) project

仲吉 彬; Journeau, C.*; Rempe, J.*; Barrachin, M.*; Bottomley, D.; Nauchi, Y.*; Song, J. H.*

Proceedings of 2019 International Workshop on Post-Fukushima Challenges on Severe Accident Mitigation and Research Collaboration (SAMRC 2019) (USB Flash Drive),  ( ), 6 Pages, 2019/11

In recognition of the broad international interest in learning from post-accident examinations and other activities related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F), Japan recommended, to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear energy Agency/Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations (OECD/NEA/CSNI) in 2013, that they identified and followed up on opportunities to address safety research gaps. The CSNI set up the Senior Expert Group (SEG) on Safety Research Opportunities Post-Fukushima (SAREF). In 2016-2017, Preparatory Study on Analysis of Fuel Debris (PreADES) project was recommended by the SEG on SAREF as a near-term project. The PreADES project will summarize the collected knowledge and expertise of debris characterization and identify the needs for debris analyses that will most contribute to the decommissioning of 1F. The project also aims to improve the understanding of severe accidents and reactor safety assessments as well as creating appropriate and optimal methodologies for future debris sampling, retrieval, and storage. Consequently, the project provides important input for a future international project of sample examination based on long-term considerations. The PreADES project launched discussions among interested organizations at the preliminary meeting in July 2017 about the objectives, scope, output, and direction of the project. The contents of the PreADES project were agreed as the three following tasks: Task 1: Joint study on fuel debris' expected properties and characterization, Task 2: Identifying needs and major issues for future fuel debris sampling, retrieval, and analyses, Task 3: Planning of future international R&D framework. Currently, 4th meeting took place on July in Tokyo Japan. Task 1 is almost completed and Task 2 will be summarized soon.

Main findings, remaining uncertainties and lessons learned from the OECD/NEA BSAF Project

Pellegrini, M.*; Herranz, L.*; Sonnenkalb, M.*; Lind, T.*; 丸山 結; Gauntt, R.*; Bixler, N.*; Morreale, A.*; Dolganov, K.*; Sevon, T.*; et al.

Proceedings of 18th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-18) (USB Flash Drive), p.1147 - 1162, 2019/08

The OECD/NEA Benchmark Study at the Accident of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS project (BSAF) has started in 2012 until 2018 as one of the earliest responses to the accident at Fukushima Daiichi NPS. The project addressed the investigation of the accident at Units 1, 2 and 3 by severe accident (SA) codes focusing on thermal-hydraulics, core relocation, molten core/concrete interaction (MCCI) and fission products release and transport. The objectives of BSAF were to make up plausible scenarios based primarily on SA forensic analysis, support the decommissioning and inform SA codes modeling. The analysis and comparison among the institutes have brought up vital insights regarding the accident progression identifying periods of core meltdown and relocation, reactor vessel (RV) and primary containment vessel (PCV) leakage/failure through the comparison of pressure, water level and CAMS measurement. The combination of code results and inspections has provided a picture of the current state of the debris distribution and plant state. All units present a large relocation of core materials and all of them present ex-vessel debris with units 1 and 3 showing evidences of undergoing MCCI. Uncertainties have been identified in particular on the time and magnitude of events such as corium relocation in RV and into cavity floor, RV and PCV rupture events. Main uncertainties resulting from the project are the large and continuous MCCI progression predicted by basically all the SA codes and the leak pathways from RV to PCV and PCV to reactor building and environment. The BSAF project represents a pioneering exercise which has set the basis and provided lessons learned not only for code improvement but also for the development of new related projects to investigate in details further aspects of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS accident.

Comparison of heavy-ion transport simulations; Collision integral in a box

Zhang, Y.-X.*; Wang, Y,-J.*; Colonna, M.*; Danielewicz, P.*; 小野 章*; Tsang, M. B.*; Wolter, H.*; Xu, J.*; Chen, L.-W.*; Cozma, D.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 97(3), p.034625_1 - 034625_20, 2018/03

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.034625

2017年4月に開催された国際会議Transport2017において、重イオン核反応モデルの国際的な比較が議論された。重イオン加速器の安全評価や宇宙飛行士の被ばく評価等で重要な役割を果たすため、世界中で重イオン核反応の様々な理論モデルが開発されている。本研究はモデル間の共通点と差異を明らかにし、各モデルの問題点を明らかにした。比較において、辺の長さが20fmの直方体に320個の中性子と320個の陽子をランダム配置し、それらが時間発展に伴って起こす散乱の回数や散乱時のエネルギーなどを計算する条件が設定された。また、結果以外にも、理論モデルを構成するアルゴリズムについても比較を行った。発表者は重イオン核反応モデルJQMD(JAERI Quantum Molecular Dynamics)を用いて計算を行い、世界で開発されている15の計算コードによる計算結果と比較した。コードアルゴリズムの比較では、JQMDは必ず陽子から 優先的に衝突確率を計算し、その後に中性子の衝突を計算するため、物理描像の妥当性が指摘された。一方、JQMDは他のモデルとほぼ同じ計算結果を出すことも判明した。衝突回数や運動量の計算値が平均から2倍以上乖離するモデルもある中で、JQMDは本計算条件で安定した性能を発揮することが確認された。

The Application of radiochronometry during the 4th collaborative materials exercise of the nuclear forensics international technical working group (ITWG)

Kristo, M. J.*; Williams, R.*; Gaffney, A. M.*; Kayzar-Boggs, T. M.*; Schorzman, K. C.*; Lagerkvist, P.*; Vesterlund, A.*; Ramebck, H.*; Nelwamondo, A. N.*; Kotze, D.*; et al.

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 315(2), p.425 - 434, 2018/02

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5680-5

最新の核鑑識国際共同試料分析演習では、低濃縮ウラン試料について、10か国の核鑑識ラボラトリーが精製年代測定を実施して良好な結果を得た。これらの測定のうち、3つの異なる核種ペアを用いた精製年代測定も実施された。10か国の核鑑識ラボラトリーが提出した精製年代測定の結果は、実際の精製日と概ね一致した。また、質量分析法による結果は、放射線計測法を用いたものに比べて、高精度な結果を示した。さらに、一部のラボラトリーによって示されたU-Pa法とU-Th法による精製年代測定の結果の一致は、結果の確証性を高めた。

Uniaxial pressure effect on the magnetic ordered moment and transition temperatures in BaFeTAs ( = Co,Ni)

Tam, D. M.*; Song, Y.*; Man, H.*; Cheung, S. C.*; Yin, Z.*; Lu, X.*; Wang, W.*; Frandsen, B. A.*; Liu, L.*; Gong, Z.*; et al.

Physical Review B, 95(6), p.060505_1 - 060505_6, 2017/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.060505

We use neutron diffraction and muon spin relaxation to study the effect of in-plane uniaxial pressure on the antiferromagnetic (AF) orthorhombic phase in BaFeTAs and its Co- and Ni-substituted members near optimal superconductivity. In the low-temperature AF ordered state, uniaxial pressure necessary to detwin the orthorhombic crystals also increases the magnetic ordered moment, reaching an 11% increase under 40 MPa for BaFeCoAs, and a 15% increase for BaFeNiAs. We also observe an increase of the AF ordering temperature () of about 0.25 K/MPa in all compounds, consistent with density functional theory calculations that reveal better Fermi surface nesting for itinerant electrons under uniaxial pressure. The doping dependence of the magnetic ordered moment is captured by combining dynamical mean field theory with density functional theory, suggesting that the pressure-induced moment increase near optimal superconductivity is closely related to quantum fluctuations and the nearby electronic nematic phase.

Measurement of proton, deuteron, and triton production double differential cross sections on carbon by 290 MeV/nucleon Ar ions

梶本 剛*; 橋口 太郎*; 執行 信寛*; 佐藤 大樹; 魚住 祐介*; Song, T. Y.*; Lee, C. W.*; Kim, J. W.*; Yang, S. C.*; 古場 裕介*; et al.

JAEA-Conf 2014-002, p.127 - 132, 2015/02

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2014-002

高エネルギー加速器施設の遮蔽設計には、原子力機構を中心に開発されているPHITSや欧州原子核研究機構を中心に開発されているFLUKAなどのモンテカルロ法に基づく放射線輸送コードが利用されている。これら放射線輸送コードの予測精度を検証するには、核反応の素過程に関する二重微分断面積の実験データとの比較が必要である。しかし、重イオン入射反応に関する実験データは乏しく、荷電粒子生成に関するものはほとんど存在しない。そこで、放射線医学総合研究所のHIMAC加速器を用い290MeV/uのAr入射反応に対する炭素原子核からの陽子,重陽子及び三重陽子生成二重微分断面積を測定した。生成した荷電粒子は、ビーム軸に対して15, 30, 45, 60, 75及び90度方向に配置した液体有機シンチレータで検出した。各荷電粒子は、飛行時間と検出器でのエネルギー損失の情報から識別できる。実験データをPHITS及びFLUKAと比較したところ、陽子生成については実験データの傾向を再現するものの、重陽子及び三重陽子生成については、両コードで全く再現できず、各コードによる計算値の間にも大きな差があることが分かった。これは、既存の核反応模型では重陽子や三重陽子の放出に必要な核子の同伴および癒着過程を適切に取り扱えていないためと考えられる。本研究で得られる知見は、放射線輸送コードにおける核反応模型の改良に貢献することが期待できる。

Status and result of the KSTAR upgrade for the 2010's campaign

Yang, H. L.*; Kim, Y. S.*; Park, Y. M.*; Bae, Y. S.*; Kim, H. K.*; Kim, K. M.*; Lee, K. S.*; Kim, H. T.*; Bang, E. N.*; Joung, M.*; et al.

Proceedings of 23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2010) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2011/03

http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/physics/FEC/FEC2010/html/node436.htm#84701

韓国超伝導トカマク先進研究装置(KSTAR)における高楕円度でダイバータ配位を有するプラズマ生成を目指した2010年の運転のため、プラズマ形状制御に不可欠なハードウェア・システムが新たに据え付けられ改良された。この論文では、改良されたシステムの一般的な構成の概要を述べる。さらに、システムにおいてキーとなる幾つかの性能と試験結果についても報告する。

Study of ion-beam-induced damage and luminescence properties in terbium-implanted AlGaN

Park, J.-H.*; 若原 昭浩*; 岡田 浩*; 古川 雄三*; Kim, Y.-T.*; Chang, H.-J.*; Song, J.*; Shin, S.*; Lee, J.-H.*; 佐藤 真一郎; et al.

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 49(3), p.032401_1 - 032401_5, 2010/03

https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.49.032401

Terbium (Tb) ions were implanted into AlGaN epitaxial layers at room temperature to investigate ion-beam-induced damage and luminescence properties at various doses of - Tb/cm. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry/channeling (RBS/channeling) reveals that on-beam-induced damage level steeply increases and that the damage cannot be fully recovered even after rapid thermal annealing at 1100 C, when the dose exceeds Tb/cm. On the other hand, cathodoluminescence (CL) intensity related to Tb transitions increased initially and saturated above a dose of Tb/cm. The results suggest that Tb-related luminescence properties are much susceptible to defects and nonradiative defects, namely, Tb-defect complexes, are formed under low-dose conditions even at a very low structural defect density.

Experimental observation of bulk band dispersions in the oxide semiconductor ZnO using soft X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

小林 正起*; Song, G.-S.*; 片岡 隆史*; 坂本 勇太*; 藤森 淳; 大河内 拓雄*; 竹田 幸治; 岡根 哲夫; 斎藤 祐児; 山上 浩志; et al.

Journal of Applied Physics, 105(12), p.122403_1 - 122403_4, 2009/06

BB2009-1947.pdf:0.84MB

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3116223

ZnO is one of the most promising oxide semiconductors for applications to semiconductor electronics, especially for optical devices. Their inexpensiveness and environmental safety are also advantages for practical applications. The surface electronic structure of ZnO has been investigated so far using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) in the ultraviolet ray region (less than 150 eV), although those measurements are surface sensitive. Considering their potentiality of ZnO for extensive applications, it is desired to investigate the bulk electronic structure of ZnO experimentally. In this work, we have performed soft X-ray (SX) ARPES measurements on a ZnO thin film in order to probe the bulk electronic structure. All the obtained band dispersion reflects the hexagonal Brillouin zone of ZnO, indicating we succeeded in the observation of the band dispersion of ZnO by SX-ARPES.

Systematic changes of the electronic structure of the diluted ferromagnetic oxide Li-doped NiFeO with hole doping

小林 正起*; Hwang, J. I.*; Song, G.*; 大木 康弘*; 滝沢 優*; 藤森 淳; 竹田 幸治; 藤森 伸一; 寺井 恒太*; 岡根 哲夫; et al.

Physical Review B, 78(15), p.155322_1 - 155322_4, 2008/10

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.155322

The electronic structure of Li-doped NiFeO has been investigated using photoemission spectroscopy (PES) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The Ni core-level PES and XAS spectra were not changed by Li doping. In contrast, the Fe intensity increased with Li doping relative to the Fe intensity. However, the increase of Fe is only of the doped Li content, suggesting that most of the doped holes enter the O and/or the charge-transferred configuration Ni . The Fe partial density of states and the host valence-band emission near valence-band maximum increased with Li content, consistent with the increase of electrical conductivity. Based on these findings, percolation of bound magnetic polarons is proposed as an origin of the ferromagnetic behavior.