Fabrication and test results of testing equipment for remote-handling of MA fuel, 2; Evaluation of heat transfer parameter crossing rectangular lattice matrix

Eguchi, Yuta; Sugawara, Takanori; Nishihara, Kenji; Tazawa, Yujiro; Inoue, Akira; Tsujimoto, Kazufumi

JAEA-Technology 2015-052, 34 Pages, 2016/03

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Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P) planned in the J-PARC project uses minor actinide (MA) fuel which has large decay heat. So it is necessary to consider the increase of the core temperature when the core cooling system is stopped. This change of the core temperature was evaluated by thermal conduction analysis. It was found that the impact of thermal insulation in the empty rectangular lattice matrix area was large. So it is necessary to verify reliability and accuracy of heat transfer effect used in this area. Testing equipment was fabricated to verify the accuracy of calculation model for the empty lattice matrix which was the free convection model of sealed fluid. By using this equipment, thermal distribution and one dimensional heat flow through the lattice were measured. It was observed that the actual equivalent thermal conductivity in the lattice was larger than the free convection model. It was also confirmed that the insertion of the aluminum block into the empty lattice could achieve the higher equivalent thermal conductivity. These results could be the useful data for the thermal conduction analysis.

Conceptual study of transmutation experimental facility, 2; Study on ADS target test facility

Sasa, Toshinobu; Umeno, Makoto*; Mizubayashi, Hiroshi*; Mori, Keijiro*; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Saito, Shigeru; Kai, Tetsuya; Nakai, Kimikazu*; Zako, Akira*; Kasahara, Yoshiyuki*; et al.

JAERI-Tech 2005-021, 114 Pages, 2005/03

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To perform the research and development for accelerator-driven system (ADS), Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) plans to build a Transmutation Experimental Facility under the JAERI-KEK joint J-PARC program. Transmutation Experimental Facility consists of two buildings, Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility to make reactor physics experiment with subcritical core, and ADS Target Test Facility for the preparation of irradiation database for various structural materials. In this report, purpose to build, experimental schedule, and design study of the ADS target test facility with drawer type spallation target are summarized.

Plutonium records in sediment core from Nagasaki Bay, Japan

Kokubu, Yoko; Magara, Masaaki; Usuda, Shigekazu; Shinohara, Nobuo; Yamazaki, Hideo*; Yoshikawa, Shusaku*; Murakami, Akiko*; Tsujimoto, Akira*; Nagaoka, Shinji*

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Depth profiles of concentration of Pu and Pu/Pu ratio in the cores collected from the center of the Nagasaki Bay were determined to find depositional records of plutonium released from Nagasaki atomic bomb and other nuclear tests. The ratio in sediment at the depth of about 50 cm was higher than that of the global stratospheric fallout, which might show that the plutonium has come from the nuclear tests carried out around the Marshall Islands. Deposition of plutonium from the Nagasaki atomic bomb will be also reported in the presentation.