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Oizumi, Akito; Sagara, Hiroshi*
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 223, p.111677_1 - 111677_12, 2025/12
This study aims to provide a new rational physical protection (PP) design method by using (
) and to design a rational PP system for a site of the transuranium fuel cycle with accelerator-drive systems (ADSs cycle) using the new method. First, the new rational PP design method with different PP design requirements for each
was generalized based on the definitions of a national standard method defined by the US Department of Energy, the joint US-Japan study, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. A new PP categorization of Uranium (U), including U-234, which is abundant in the ADS cycle, was also developed based on
. Second, a PP design was conducted for a general BWR site with MOX fuel and the ADS cycle site by using the new rational method. It was clarified that the highest overall
of the items within the ADS cycle site was lower than that of the MOX fuel assembly within the BWR site. The BWR site was determined to be Category I requiring the inner area. The PP design requirement level of the ADS cycle site was determined to be Category II, which does not require an inner area, while the ADS cycle site would have been classified as Category I if the PP design had been conducted using the conventional method.
Dei, Shuntaro; Shibata, Masahito*; Negishi, Kumi*; Sugiura, Yuki; Amano, Yuki; Bateman, K.*; Wilson, J.*; Yokoyama, Tatsunori; Kagami, Saya; Takeda, Masaki; et al.
Results in Earth Sciences (Internet), 3, p.100097_1 - 100097_16, 2025/12
Interactions between cement and host rock in geological repositories for radioactive waste will result in a chemically disturbed zone, which may potentially affect the long-term safety. This paper investigates the chemical evolution at the interface between cement (Ordinary Portland Cement: OPC and Low Alkaline Cement: LAC) and mudstone after 11 years of in situ reactions at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory. The study combines various analytical techniques to identify the key reactions at the cement-rock interface, including cement dissolution, precipitation of secondary minerals such as calcite and C-(A-)S-H phases, cation exchange in montmorillonite and reduced porosity in mudstone. The study also highlights the effects of cement-mudstone interactions on radionuclide migration, such as reduction of diffusivity due to reduced porosity and enhancement of sorption due to incorporation into secondary minerals in the altered mudstone.
Otsuka, Naohiko*; Devi, V.*; Iwamoto, Osamu
Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 225, p.111903_1 - 111903_18, 2025/11
Times Cited Count:0Ahmed, Z.*; Wu, S.*; Sharma, A.*; Kumar, R.*; Yamano, Hidemasa; Pellegrini, M.*; Yokoyama, Ryo*; Okamoto, Koji*
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 250, p.127343_1 - 127343_17, 2025/11
Times Cited Count:0Pham, V. H.; Kurata, Masaki; Nagae, Yuji; Ishibashi, Ryo*; Sasaki, Masana*
Corrosion Science, 255, p.113098_1 - 113098_9, 2025/10
Times Cited Count:0Wada, Yuki; Shibamoto, Yasuteru; Hibiki, Takashi*
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 249, p.127219_1 - 127219_16, 2025/10
Times Cited Count:0Luu, V. N.; Taniguchi, Yoshinori; Udagawa, Yutaka; Katsuyama, Jinya
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 442, p.114222_1 - 114222_15, 2025/10
Times Cited Count:0Kubo, Kotaro; Mori, Kenji*; Muramatsu, Ken
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 442, p.114176_1 - 114176_14, 2025/10
Times Cited Count:0Aoki, Takeshi; Shimizu, Atsushi; Ishii, Katsunori; Morita, Keisuke; Mizuta, Naoki; Kurahayashi, Kaoru; Yasuda, Takanori; Noguchi, Hiroki; Nomoto, Yasunobu; Iigaki, Kazuhiko; et al.
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 220, p.111503_1 - 111503_7, 2025/09
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)Aiming to establish coupling technologies between a high temperature gas cooled reactor and a hydrogen production plant, JAEA has initiated the HTTR Heat Application Test Project and is conducting the safety design and the safety analysis for the licensing of the HTTR Heat Application Test Facility. The present study proposed a relative evaluation methodology for the demarcation of applicable laws and design standards for the nuclear hydrogen production system and applied it to the HTTR Heat Application Test Facility. The evaluation results showed that a candidate applying the High Pressure Gas Safety Act to the Heat Application Test Facility (hydrogen production plant) and design standards established under the High Pressure Gas Safety Act to the steam reformer did not show the lowest category in any of the metrics, and was proposed as the most superior demarcation option for the HTTR Heat Application Test Facility.
Soma, Shu; Ishigaki, Masahiro*; Shibamoto, Yasuteru
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 219, p.111455_1 - 111455_12, 2025/09
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)Yildirim, A. C.*; Mei, H.*; Toda, Kanako*; Aoyagi, Noboru; Saito, Takumi*
Applied Clay Science, 274, p.107853_1 - 107853_9, 2025/09
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Chemistry, Physical)Wang, Z.; Matsumoto, Toshinori; Shibamoto, Yasuteru; Duan, G.*
Journal of Computational Physics, 537, p.114072_1 - 114072_29, 2025/09
Times Cited Count:0Yin, W.*; Ito, Keita*; Tsubowa, Yusuke*; Tsujikawa, Masahito*; Shirai, Masafumi*; Umetsu, Rie*; Takanashi, Koki
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 628, p.173157_1 - 173157_8, 2025/09
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Yamashita, Takayuki*; Koga, Norimitsu*; Mao, W.*; Gong, W.; Kawasaki, Takuro; Harjo, S.; Fujii, Hidetoshi*; Umezawa, Osamu*
Materials Science and Engineering A, 941, p.148602_1 - 148602_11, 2025/09
Times Cited Count:0Cao, T.*; Wei, D.*; Gong, W.; Kawasaki, Takuro; Harjo, S.; 10 of others*
Materials Science and Engineering A, 940, p.148534_1 - 148534_16, 2025/09
Rizaal, M.; Nakajima, Kunihisa; Suzuki, Eriko; Miwa, Shuhei
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 218, p.111433_1 - 111433_10, 2025/08
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)Tamura, Yukiko*; Arakawa, Masato*; Takenaka, Mikihito*; Nakanishi, Yohei*; Fujinami, So*; Shibata, Motoki*; Yamamoto, Katsuhiro*; Miyata, Noboru*; Yamada, Masako*; Seto, Hideki*; et al.
Polymer, 333, p.128662_1 - 128662_8, 2025/08
Times Cited Count:0Shimizu, Kazuyuki*; Yamaguchi, Masatake; Akamaru, Satoshi*; Nishimura, Katsuhiko*; Abe, Rion*; Sasaki, Taisuke*; Wang, Y.*; Toda, Hiroyuki*
Scripta Materialia, 265, p.116730_1 - 116730_7, 2025/08
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)Collaborative Laboratories for Advanced Decommissioning Science; Fukushima University*
JAEA-Review 2025-002, 108 Pages, 2025/07
The Collaborative Laboratories for Advanced Decommissioning Science (CLADS), Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), had been conducting the Nuclear Energy Science & Technology and Human Resource Development Project (hereafter referred to "the Project") in FY2023. The Project aims to contribute to solving problems in the nuclear energy field represented by the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO). For this purpose, intelligence was collected from all over the world, and basic research and human resource development were promoted by closely integrating/collaborating knowledge and experiences in various fields beyond the barrier of conventional organizations and research fields. The sponsor of the Project was moved from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to JAEA since the newly adopted proposals in FY2018. On this occasion, JAEA constructed a new research system where JAEA-academia collaboration is reinforced and medium-to-long term research/development and human resource development contributing to the decommissioning are stably and consecutively implemented. Among the adopted proposals in FY2019, this report summarizes the research results of the "Development of methodology combining chemical analysis technology with informatics technology to understand perspectives property of debris and tie-up style human resource development" conducted from FY2019 to FY2023. The present study aims to Goal of this study is to implement a research plan relate to a development of combinational technology of new chemical analysis with informatics, and the aim is to develop new system for whole image estimation system using small quantities of information. Conducting the collaboration study with JAEA researchers (tie-up style) make connect to the development of human resource from master's course student to post-doctoral researchers who are progress in the local-based and/or many academics fields research. We are in progress to grow international-minded human resources.
Aono, Ryuji; Goto, Katsunori*; Kinase, Akari; Sato, Yoshiyuki; Haraga, Tomoko; Iseda, Hirokatsu
JAEA-Data/Code 2025-006, 24 Pages, 2025/07
Radioactive wastes generated from nuclear research facilities in Japan Atomic Energy Agency are planned to be buried in the near surface disposal field as trench and pit. Therefore, it is required to establish the method to evaluate the radioactivity concentrations of radioactive wastes until the beginning of disposal. In order to contribute to this work, we collected and analyzed the samples stored at the waste storage facility L. In this report, we summarized the radioactivity concentrations of 12 radionuclides (H,
C,
Co,
Sr,
Nb,
Cs,
Eu,
Eu,
Pu,
Pu,
Pu,
Am) which were obtained from radiochemical analysis of the samples in fiscal year 2020.