Recontamination prevention technologies to prevent radioactive cesium from its runoff from not decontaminated forests to living areas

Nagasu, Ryosuke*; Tanabe, Daijiro*; Yokotsuka, Satoshi*; Kumazawa, Noriyuki*; Ajiki, Takaya*; Aizawa, Yusuke*; Naganawa, Hirochika; Nagano, Tetsushi; Yanase, Nobuyuki*; Mitamura, Hisayoshi*; et al.

Kankyo Joka Gijutsu, 17(2), p.58 - 61, 2018/03

A new technology to suppress cesium migration from forests has been developed collaboratively by Ibaraki University, Kumagai-gumi Co., Ltd. and its group company, Technos, and JAEA. The new technology utilizes polyelectrolytes (polymers with electric charges) and clay minerals to control Cs migration with the aid of natural forces such as rainfall and rainwater runoff. In Imitate-mura, Fukushima, verification tests of the new technology have been performed and its effect on controlling Cs migration from forests to grass farm adjoining the forests has been proven.

Simultaneous measurement of neutron-induced fission and capture cross sections for Am at neutron energies below fission threshold

Hirose, Kentaro; Nishio, Katsuhisa; Makii, Hiroyuki; Nishinaka, Ichiro*; Ota, Shuya*; Nagayama, Tatsuro*; Tamura, Nobuyuki*; Goto, Shinichi*; Andreyev, A. N.; Vermeulen, M. J.; et al.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 856, p.133 - 138, 2017/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.12.021

Decontamination and volume reduction of cesium-contaminated soil by combining soil solidification with interpolyelectrolyte complex and wet classification

Yamashita, Yuji*; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Nagano, Tetsushi; Mitamura, Hisayoshi; Naganawa, Hirochika

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 305(2), p.583 - 587, 2015/08

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4016-6

We propose a method for the decontamination and waste volume reduction of cesium-contaminated soil. The soils were solidified with an interpolyelectrolyte complex solution and classified into several size fractions by wet sieving. -ray spectrometry of these fractions showed that the distribution ratio of the activity concentration of coarse soil particles decreased, whereas that of soil particles under 0.075 mm increased relative to reference samples. Results show that the fine soil particles, on which radioactive cesium accumulates, were removed from the surface of the coarse soil particles during, and remained in the washing water.

Continuous liquid-liquid extraction of nickel from simulated electroless nickel plating liquid wastes by using a counter current emulsion flow extractor

Nagano, Tetsushi; Mitamura, Hisayoshi; Yamashita, Yuji; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Suzuki, Hideya; Naganawa, Hirochika

Solvent Extraction Research and Development, Japan, 21(1), p.111 - 117, 2014/00

https://doi.org/10.15261/serdj.21.1

Simulated electroless nickel plating liquid wastes have been processed by using an emulsion flow extractor of a counter current type with a special focus on influences of dilution of the liquid wastes on the extraction performance. The emulsion flow extractor provides an efficient liquid-liquid extraction by sending solutions without additional stirring or shaking. A solvent used in the present study was Shellsol D70 solution containing LIX84-I as an extractant for nickel and PC88A as an accelerating agent. As a result, it was found that increasing degree of dilution with water resulted in improvement of nickel extractabilities obtained from the emulsion flow experiments with a maximum value of 96% as well as those obtained from batch experiments. Droplet sizes at the lower and the upper sides of emulsion phases, estimated by using high-speed microscope, were 214 36 m and 415 110 m, respectively.

Method for monitoring radioactive cesium concentration in water using cesium adsorption disk and GM survey meter

Nagano, Tetsushi; Mitamura, Hisayoshi; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Naganawa, Hirochika; Yasuda, Kenichiro; Yoshida, Zenko; Yamaguchi, Hiroaki*

Nihon Hoshasen Anzen Kanri Gakkai-Shi, 11(2), p.139 - 145, 2012/11

https://doi.org/10.11269/jjrsm.11.139

An on-site monitoring method for radioactive cesium concentration in water using a cesium adsorption disk and a GM survey meter has been developed to rapidly and easily ascertain whether the water quality meets standards on radiological contaminants in water. In this method, both dissolved and suspended forms of radioactive cesium are collected on the cesium adsorption disk by means of filtration of a water sample. Beta counting rate of the disk is converted into radioactivity using a conservative calibration factor obtained here. The present on-site method was applied to monitoring of decontaminated water of an outdoor school swimming pool in Date city after Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.

Evaluation of the affinity of some toxic elements to schwertmannite in natural streams contaminated with acid mine drainage

Nagano, Tetsushi; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Hanzawa, Yukiko; Takada, Morio*; Mitamura, Hisayoshi; Sato, Tsutomu*; Naganawa, Hirochika

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 216(1-4), p.153 - 166, 2011/03

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-010-0523-9

Schwertmannite is a poorly-crystalline ferric sulphate mineral that secondarily forms in acid mine drainages (AMD) as a result of the oxidative weathering of pyrite (FeS2), and is known to work as a naturally-occurring scavenger of some toxic elements in AMD-contaminated streams due to its high fixation potentials. In this study, to examine the feasibility of using schwertmannite in water purification technique, we evaluate the affinity of some selected elements to schwertmannite using two parameters: (1) conventional apparent solid-liquid partition coefficients between schwertmannite and stream waters, and (2) newly introduced parameters that correspond to ratios of ions fixed by schwertmannite to those existing as dissolved phases. As a result, both of the two parameters revealed that schwertmannite has high fixation potential for fluvial transport of various toxic anions such as V, Cr, As, Mo and Sb in AMD-contaminated streams, and that it could be used for purification of waters contaminated with these toxic anions.

27th report of ITPA topical group meeting

Osakabe, Masaki*; Shinohara, Koji; Toi, Kazuo*; Todo, Yasushi*; Hamamatsu, Kiyotaka; Murakami, Sadayoshi*; Yamamoto, Satoshi*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Sakamoto, Yoshiteru; Tanaka, Kenji*; et al.

Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 85(12), p.839 - 842, 2009/12

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/40016957892

no abstracts in English

Report on ITPA meetings, 24

Idomura, Yasuhiro; Yoshida, Maiko; Yagi, Masatoshi*; Tanaka, Kenji*; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Sakamoto, Yoshiteru; Tamura, Naoki*; Oyama, Naoyuki; Urano, Hajime; Aiba, Nobuyuki; et al.

Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 84(12), p.952 - 955, 2008/12

http://www.jspf.or.jp/Journal/PDF_JSPF/jspf2008_12/jspf2008_12-952.pdf

no abstracts in English

Diagnostics system of JT-60U

Sugie, Tatsuo; Hatae, Takaki; Koide, Yoshihiko; Fujita, Takaaki; Kusama, Yoshinori; Nishitani, Takeo; Isayama, Akihiko; Sato, Masayasu; Shinohara, Koji; Asakura, Nobuyuki; et al.

Fusion Science and Technology (JT-60 Special Issue), 42(2-3), p.482 - 511, 2002/09

https://doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A242

The diagnostic system of JT-60U (JT-60upgrade) is composed of about 50 individual diagnostic devices. Recently, the detailed radial profile measurements of plasma parameters have been improved, so that the internal structure of plasmas has been explored. The understanding of plasma confinement has been enhanced by density and temperature fluctuation measurements using a mm-wave reflectometer and electron cyclotron emission measurements respectively. In addition, the real-time control experiments of electron density, neutron yield, radiated power and electron temperature gradient have been carried out successfully by corresponding diagnostic devices. These measurements and the real time control contribute to improving plasma performance. Diagnostic devices for next generation fusion devices such as a CO2 laser interferometer/polarimeter and a CO2 laser collective Thomson scattering system have been developed.

Extraction and separation of cadmium(II) from process residue of scallop by "emulsion flow"

Ishioka, Minami; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Nagano, Tetsushi; Mitamura, Hisayoshi; Ohashi, Akira*; Yamaguchi, Akira*; Kim, H.-B.*; Naganawa, Hirochika

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English