High temperature gas-cooled reactors

Takeda, Tetsuaki*; Inagaki, Yoshiyuki; Aihara, Jun; Aoki, Takeshi; Fujiwara, Yusuke; Fukaya, Yuji; Goto, Minoru; Ho, H. Q.; Iigaki, Kazuhiko; Imai, Yoshiyuki; et al.

High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors; JSME Series in Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation, Vol.5, 464 Pages, 2021/02

https://doi.org/10.1016/C2018-0-05383-9

As a general overview of the research and development of a High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) in JAEA, this book describes the achievements by the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) on the designs, key component technologies such as fuel, reactor internals, high temperature components, etc., and operational experience such as rise-to-power tests, high temperature operation at 950C, safety demonstration tests, etc. In addition, based on the knowledge of the HTTR, the development of designs and component technologies such as high performance fuel, helium gas turbine and hydrogen production by IS process for commercial HTGRs are described. These results are very useful for the future development of HTGRs. This book is published as one of a series of technical books on fossil fuel and nuclear energy systems by the Power Energy Systems Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory Project; Synthesis of Phase II (Construction Phase) investigations to a depth of 350m

Sato, Toshinori; Sasamoto, Hiroshi; Ishii, Eiichi; Matsuoka, Toshiyuki; Hayano, Akira; Miyakawa, Kazuya; Fujita, Tomoo*; Tanai, Kenji; Nakayama, Masashi; Takeda, Masaki; et al.

JAEA-Research 2016-025, 313 Pages, 2017/03

JAEA-Research-2016-025.pdf:45.1MB

The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (URL) Project is being pursued by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to enhance the reliability of relevant disposal technologies through investigations of the deep geological environment within the host sedimentary formations at Horonobe, northern Hokkaido. This report summarizes the results of the Phase II investigations carried out from April 2005 to June 2014 to a depth of 350m. Integration of work from different disciplines into a "geosynthesis" ensures that the Phase II goals have been successfully achieved and identifies key issues that need to made to be addressed in the Phase II investigations Efforts are made to summarize as many lessons learnt from the Phase II investigations and other technical achievements as possible to form a "knowledge base" that will reinforce the technical basis for both implementation and the formulation of safety regulations.

Matrix diffusion and sorption of Cs, Na, I and HTO in granodiorite; Laboratory-scale results and their extrapolation to the in situ condition

Tachi, Yukio; Ebina, Takanori*; Takeda, Chizuko*; Saito, Toshihiko*; Takahashi, Hiroaki*; Ouchi, Yuji*; Martin, A. J.*

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 179, p.10 - 24, 2015/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2015.05.003

Matrix diffusion and sorption are important processes in the assessment of radionuclide transport in crystalline rocks. Diffusion and sorption parameters for Cs, Na, I and HTO were determined by through-diffusion and batch sorption experiments using granodiorite samples from the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland. The De values were in the order Cs, Na, HTO, I. The capacity factor and Kd values show the same trends. The dual depth profiles for Cs and Na can be interpreted by a near-surface Kd increment. The microscopic analysis indicated that this is caused by high porosity and sorption capacities in disturbed biotite minerals on the sample surface. The Kd values derived from the dual profiles are likely to correspond to Kd dependence on the grain sizes of crushed samples in the batch experiments. The results of the in situ LTD experiments were interpreted reasonably well by using transport parameters derived from laboratory data and extrapolating them to in situ conditions.

RELAP5 code study of ROSA/LSTF validation tests for PWR safety system using SG secondary-side depressurization

Takeda, Takeshi; Onuki, Akira*; Nishi, Hiroaki*

Proceedings of 10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-10) (USB Flash Drive), 13 Pages, 2014/12

Local structure analysis of BiWO

Yoneda, Yasuhiro; Kohara, Shinji*; Takeda, Hiroaki*; Tsurumi, Takaaki*

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 51(9), p.09LE06_1 - 09LE06_6, 2012/09

https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.51.09LE06

Local structure analysis of BiWO was performed by high-energy X-ray atomic pair-distribution function (PDF) analysis. We found a deviation between local and average structures owing to the different coherence length between BiO and WO layers. Bi atoms were displaced toward the -axis of the orthorhombic structure. The local off-center shift of Bi atoms coupled with thermal factor and negrected in the average structure. The coherence length of BiO layer increased with increasing temperature and splead in the whole crystal when the average structure changed from to structure.

Small-angle neutron scattering measurements of the averaged internal structures in neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) sintered magnets

Takeda, Masayasu; Suzuki, Junichi*; Akiya, Takahiro*; Kato, Hiroaki*

Nihon Kinzoku Gakkai-Shi, 76(3), p.165 - 176, 2012/03

https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.76.165

Correlation between the averaged internal structure and the coercive force of neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) sintered magnets investigated by small-angle neutron scattering

Takeda, Masayasu; Suzuki, Junichi; Yamaguchi, Daisuke; Akiya, Takahiro*; Kato, Hiroaki*; Une, Yasuhiro*; Sagawa, Masato*

Proceedings of 21st International Workshop on Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets and their Applications (REPM 2010), p.161 - 164, 2010/08

We performed small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets to get information on the averaged internal microstructure of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets including the interfacial structure which is a key parameter to achieve a high-coercivity Dy-free Nd-Fe-B sintered magnet. SANS patterns from the Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets measured with a two-dimensional detector of a small-angle neutron scattering spectrometer SANS-J-II in the research reactor JRR-3 were sensitive to the sintering and annealing condition of the samples. These results indicate that the SANS measurement is a promising tool to investigate the correlation between the coercivity and the internal microstructure of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets.

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.

Spiral spin structure in the Heisenberg pyrochlore magnet CdCrO

Matsuda, Masaaki; Takeda, Masayasu; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kakurai, Kazuhisa; Osawa, Akira*; Lelivre-Berna, E.*; Chung, J.-H.*; Ueda, Hiroaki*; Takagi, Hidenori*; Lee, S.-H.*

Physical Review B, 75(10), p.104415_1 - 104415_6, 2007/03

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.104415

A frustrated spinel CdCrO undergoes a three-dimensional spin-Peierls transition at = 7.8 K from a cubic paramagnetic to a tetragonal Nel state. The Nel state has a spiral magnetic structure with a characteristic wave vector of when the axis elongated. Here we report our spherical neutron polarimetry experiments to investigate the spiral spin structure in detail. Our results indicate that the spins lie in the plane perpendicular to the direction of the spiral modulation. We also found that the spiral structure in the plane is elliptical with the -component larger by 24% than the -component, suggesting a strong coupling between the magnetic structure and structural distortion. Unpolarized neutron diffraction under an external magnetic field has also been performed. The magnetic field dependence suggests existence of magnetic anisotropy in the Nel state, which is consistent with our previous inelastic studies.

Boundary structure of Mo/Si multilayers for soft X-ray mirrors

Ishino, Masahiko; Yoda, Osamu; Haishi, Yasuyuki*; Arimoto, Fumiko*; Takeda, Mitsuhiro*; Watanabe, Seiichi*; Onuki, Somei*; Abe, Hiroaki

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1, 41(5A), p.3052 - 3056, 2002/05

https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.41.3052

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