Applicability evaluation of Type A transport container for off-site transportation of small-amount of fuel debris

Sakamoto, Masahiro; Okumura, Keisuke; Kanno, Ikuo; Matsumura, Taichi; Terashima, Kenichi; Riyana, E. S.; Mizokami, Masato*; Mizokami, Shinya*

JAEA-Research 2024-017, 14 Pages, 2025/03

JAEA-Research-2024-017.pdf:1.34MB

In the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F), a trial retrieval of fuel debris with small-amount from Unit 2 is planned. The retrieved fuel debris will be transported out of 1F to Institutes in Ibaraki prefecture for analysis. The analyzed results will be utilized for the improvement of the processes (retrieval, transportation and storage) in the fuel debris management as feedback, and also for the development of technologies necessary in the future. The weight of fuel debris in the trial retrieval is planned to be a few grams. After the trial, the scale of retrieval will be expanded step by step. In the trial retrieval, a rational transportation container should be considered beforehand, according to the laws and regulations associated with the off-site transportation. The transportation container has a classification and the classification is decided according to the radioactivity of the material in the container. In this report, we evaluated the applicability of the Type A transport container to contribute to the safety assessment of retrieved fuel debris.

Development of a theoretical scaling factor method for the inventory estimation of difficult-to-measure nuclide Cs-135 in fuel debris and radioactive wastes

Sakamoto, Masahiro; Okumura, Keisuke; Kanno, Ikuo; Matsumura, Taichi; Terashima, Kenichi; Riyana, E. S.; Kaneko, Junichi*; Mizokami, Masato*; Mizokami, Shinya*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 10 Pages, 2025/00

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2025.2478926

Characterization of bremsstrahlung and -rays of fuel debris

Matsumura, Taichi; Okumura, Keisuke; Fujita, Manabu*; Sakamoto, Masahiro; Terashima, Kenichi; Riyana, E. S.

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 199, p.110298_1 - 110298_8, 2022/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110298

A Prediction method for the dose rate of fuel debris depending on the constituent elements

Terashima, Kenichi; Okumura, Keisuke

Journal of Advanced Simulation in Science and Engineering (Internet), 8(1), p.73 - 86, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.15748/jasse.8.73

Calculation of gamma and neutron emission characteristics emitted from fuel debris of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Riyana, E. S.; Okumura, Keisuke; Terashima, Kenichi

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 56(9-10), p.922 - 931, 2019/09

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2019.1621781

Machine-learning guided discovery of a new thermoelectric material

Iwasaki, Yuma*; Takeuchi, Ichiro*; Stanev, V.*; Gilad Kusne, A.*; Ishida, Masahiko*; Kirihara, Akihiro*; Ihara, Kazuki*; Sawada, Ryoto*; Terashima, Koichi*; Someya, Hiroko*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 9, p.2751_1 - 2751_7, 2019/02

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39278-z

Development of a decay heat estimation method for various fuel debris

Sakamoto, Masahiro; Terashima, Kenichi; Matsumura, Taichi; Fujita, Manabu*; Okumura, Keisuke

no journal, , 

It is important to estimate the decay heat of the fuel debris at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in examining the cooling method and evaluating the heat removal of the debris transport and storage containers for debris retrieval. However, fuel debris is not easy to estimate the decay heat because the composition of nuclides is not clear like the spent fuel whose combustion history is clear. Therefore, we developed a method to easily calculate the decay heat of debris considering parameters such as debris weight, burnup, nuclide release rate, and elapsed time etc.

Application of bubble detector to fuel debris detection

Terashima, Kenichi; Sakamoto, Masahiro; Matsumura, Taichi; Kaburagi, Masaaki; Riyana, E. S.; Nomi, Takayoshi; Okumura, Keisuke

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Preliminary study on nuclear materials imaging in fuel debris from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station using a neutron pinhole camera

Riyana, E. S.; Sakamoto, Masahiro; Matsumura, Taichi; Terashima, Kenichi; Okumura, Keisuke; Kanno, Ikuo

no journal, , 

Strontium-90 measurement in trace amount of hard tissues for distribution analysis

Koarai, Kazuma; Matsueda, Makoto; Aoki, Jo; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Terashima, Motoki; Kino, Yasushi*; Oka, Toshitaka; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Yamashita, Takuma*; et al.

no journal, , 

We demonstrated a method of Sr measurement in small pieces of hard tissues with radioactivity measurement or ICP-MS measurement. Interference elements of the measurements were removed by chemical separation. We could determine Sr in 0.1 g of hard tissues by radioactivity measurement method and ICP-MS method. Limit of detection of the ICP-MS method was lower than that of the radioactivity measurement. The ICP-MS method is adequate method for distribution analysis of Sr in the hard tissues.