Polarization analysis for small-angle neutron scattering with a He spin filter at a pulsed neutron source

Okudaira, Takuya; Ueda, Yuki; Hiroi, Kosuke; Motokawa, Ryuhei; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Takata, Shinichi; Oku, Takayuki; Suzuki, Junichi*; Takahashi, Shingo*; Endo, Hitoshi*; et al.

Journal of Applied Crystallography, 54(2), p.548 - 556, 2021/04

https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576721001643

Neutron polarization analysis (NPA) for small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments using a pulsed neutron source was successfully achieved by applying a He spin filter as a spin analyzer for the scattered neutrons. The He spin filter covers a sufficient solid angle for performing SANS experiments, and the relaxation time of the He polarization is sufficient for continuous use over a few days, thus reaching the typical duration required for a complete set of SANS experiments. Although accurate evaluation of the incoherent neutron scattering, which is predominantly attributable to hydrogen atoms in samples, is practically difficult using calculations based on the sample elemental composition, the developed NPA approach with consideration of the influence of multiple neutron scattering enabled reliable decomposition of the SANS intensity distribution into the coherent and incoherent scattering components. To date, NPA has not been well established as a standard technique for SANS experiments at pulsed neutron sources. This work is anticipated to greatly contribute to the accurate determination of the coherent neutron scattering component for scatterers in various types of organic sample systems in SANS experiments at J-PARC.

Performance confirmation operation of water environment control facility

Magome, Hirokatsu; Okada, Yuji; Tomita, Kenji; Iida, Kazuhiro; Ando, Hitoshi; Yonekawa, Akihisa; Ueda, Haruyasu; Hanawa, Hiroshi; Kanno, Masaru; Sakuta, Yoshiyuki

JAEA-Technology 2015-025, 100 Pages, 2015/09

JAEA-Technology-2015-025.pdf:78.32MB

In Japan Atomic Energy Agency, in order to solve the problem in the long-term operation of a light water reactor, preparation which does the irradiation experiment of light-water reactor fuel and material was advanced. JMTR stopped after the 165th operation cycle in August 2006, and is advancing renewal of the irradiation facility towards re-operation. The material irradiation test facility was installed from 2008 fiscal year to 2012 fiscal year in JMTR. The material irradiation test facility is used for IASCC study, and that consists of mainly three equipments. This report is described performance operating test of the water environmental control facilities for IASCC study carried out 2013 fiscal year.

Installation of the water environment irradiation facility for the IASCC research under the BWR irradiation environment, 1

Okada, Yuji; Magome, Hirokatsu; Hanawa, Hiroshi; Omi, Masao; Kanno, Masaru; Iida, Kazuhiro; Ando, Hitoshi; Shibata, Mitsunobu; Yonekawa, Akihisa; Ueda, Haruyasu

JAEA-Technology 2013-019, 236 Pages, 2013/10

JAEA-Technology-2013-019.pdf:45.07MB

In Japan Atomic Energy Agency, in order to solve the problem in the long-term operation of a light water reactor, preparation which does the irradiation experiment of light-water reactor fuel and material is advanced. JMTR stopped after the 165th operation cycle in August 2006, and is advancing renewal of the irradiation facility towards re-operation. This material irradiation test facility and power ramping test facility for doing the neutron irradiation test of the fuel and material for light water reactors is scheduled to be manufactured and installed between the 2008 fiscal year and the 2012 fiscal year. This report summarizes manufacture and installation of the material irradiation test facility for IASCC research carried out from the 2008 fiscal year to the 2010 fiscal year.

Conduction-band electronic states of YbInCu studied by photoemission and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopies

Utsumi, Yuki*; Sato, Hitoshi*; Kurihara, Hidenao*; Maso, Hiroyuki*; Hiraoka, Koichi*; Kojima, Kenichi*; Tobimatsu, Komei*; Okochi, Takuo*; Fujimori, Shinichi; Takeda, Yukiharu; et al.

Physical Review B, 84(11), p.115143_1 - 115143_7, 2011/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.115143

We have studied conduction-band (CB) electronic states of a typical valence-transition compound YbInCu by means of temperature-dependent hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HX-PES), soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and soft X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (SX-PES) of the valence band. We have described the valence transition in YbInCu in terms of the charge transfer from the CB to Yb 4 states.

and cross sections of the C(,)O reaction at 1.2 MeV using pulsed beams

Makii, Hiroyuki; Ueda, Hitoshi*; Temma, Yasuyuki*; Nagai, Yasuki*; Shima, Tatsushi*; Fujimoto, Shinya*; Segawa, Mariko; Mishima, Kenji*; Nishiyama, Jun*; Igashira, Masayuki*

AIP Conference Proceedings 1269, p.283 - 288, 2010/10

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3485149

The C(,)O reaction cross section plays an important role in stellar evolution at the stage of helium-burning. However, the cross section at low energy still has a large uncertainty mainly due to the poor determination of the ratio of cross section to one. Hence, we have installed new system to make a precise measurement of the cross section. In this experiment, we used the high efficiency anti-Compton NaI(Tl) spectrometers with a large S/N ratio, an intense pulsed beams, and the monitoring system of target thickness. With use of the system we succeeded in removing a background due to neutron and could clearly detect the -ray from the C(,)O reaction with high statistics. We determined the and cross section down to 1.2 MeV, and thus obtained results are compared to recent theoretical calculations.

and cross sections of the CO reaction using pulsed beams

Makii, Hiroyuki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Shima, Tatsushi*; Segawa, Mariko; Mishima, Kenji*; Ueda, Hitoshi*; Igashira, Masayuki*; Osaki, Toshiro*

Physical Review C, 80(6), p.065802_1 - 065802_16, 2009/10

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.80.065802

We measured the -ray angular distribution from CO to the ground state of O using a pulsed beam at and 1.4 MeV. True events of CO were discriminated from background events due to neutrons from C()O with a time-of-flight method. The obtained -ray spectrum with anti-Compton NaI(Tl) spectrometers showed a characteristic line shape from CO: the Doppler broadening and energy loss of particles in C targets. The astrophysical S factors for and , and , derived from the present cross sections are in excellent agreement with the values derived by -matrix calculation of the -delayed spectrum of N, and by using the asymptotic normalization constant in the -matrix fit.

and cross sections of the C(O reaction at 1.4 MeV using pulsed beams

Makii, Hiroyuki; Nagai, Yasuki; Mishima, Kenji*; Segawa, Mariko; Shima, Tatsushi*; Ueda, Hitoshi; Igashira, Masayuki*

AIP Conference Proceedings 1016, p.215 - 220, 2008/05

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2943575

The C(O reaction plays an important role in stellar evolution at the stage of helium-burning. However, the cross section at low energy still has a large uncertainty mainly due to the poor determination of the ratio. We have installed a new system to measure the -ray angular distribution of the C(O reaction to accurately determine the and . In this experiment, we used high efficiency anti-Compton NaI(Tl) spectrometers to detect a -ray from the reaction with a large S/N ratio, intense pulsed beams to discriminate true events from neutron induced background with a time-of-flight method, and the monitoring system of target thickness. We succeeded in removing a background due to neutrons and could clearly detect the -ray from the C(O reaction with high statics.

The ultrasonic wave thermometer sodium test, 1; A summary of test results of the externally mounted ultrasonic transducer for pipe-flow

Hayashida, Hitoshi; Kokaki, Nobuhisa; Ueda, Masashi; Isozaki, Tadashi; Ara, Kuniaki

JNC TN9400 98-001, 54 Pages, 1998/10

JNC-TN9400-98-001.pdf:1.39MB

Based on the temperature dependence of the velocity of sound in sodium, an ultrasonic thermometer that measures the temperature of sodium non-intrusively is being developed. The principle of the device is based on the propagation time of an acoustic pulse wave, and the back calculation of the sodium temperature. As the part of the development a test was actually carried out in sodium pipe-flow in order to evaluate various aspects of realizing the ultrasonic wave thermometer. The results and conclusions to date are as follows: (1)Within the present test range, the ultrasonic wave thermometer appears relatively insensitive to flow velocity of sodium, pressure of the cover gas and the impurity concentration in sodium. The calculated error of the measured thermometry was in the experiment about 1 C, a smaller value than the expected 2.5C of the system. (2)The ultrasonic thermometer has only been used wherein the thermal expansion coefficient was known and with 200 C as the reference temperatures. For the entire temperature range tested the difference between this approach and a two-point calibration over a temperature range is only expected to be about 1 C. (3)By using the mean value of multiple ultrasonic wave transmit and receive measurements, a value whereby the ultrasonic propagation time was stabilized is obtained. (4)As acoustic coupling material between the ultrasonic transducer and piping, a copper plate was found to be more suitable than a specialized acoustic bonding material. A weight equivalent, area distributed force of 2.0kg/mm was used to press the test copper plate to the pipe. A slightly smaller force appears more than sufficient as well. (5)We found that mounting the ultrasonic transducer to the exterior surface of the pipe by a clamping method is sufficient such that no welding is needed. (6)The in-sodium test period was about 2 months. No noticeable change in measurement characteristics of the ...

Study on release and transport of aerial radioactive materials in reprocessing plant, 4; Cold test (Part 1) ARF test using mocked fuel reprocessing liquid waste

Tashiro, Shinsuke; Matsumoto, Tetsuya; Kataoka, Osamu; Amano, Yuki; Abe, Hitoshi; Yamane, Yuichi; Yoshida, Kazuo; Ishikawa, Jun; Uchiyama, Gunzo; Ueda, Yoshinori*; et al.

no journal, , 

Measurements on the release ratios of aerial radioactive materials from mocked fuel reprocessing liquid waste under its boiling to dryness process were performed using labo-scaled experiments. Test sample, dissolved 27 elements into nitric acid and arranged to 2M acidity, was heated up to 300 C under the constant air ventilation. Steam, gaseous and airborne materials were collected or absorbed at the condenser, the air filter and the washing bottles. The accumulated release ratios of mocked FP elements from samples were determined using ICP-MS. From the accumulated release ratios determined from the condensed samples, the major release of Cs and Ru could be involved the release of mist and gaseous RuO, respectively. Besides, accumulated release ratios of Ru was about 10 to 1000 times higher than Cs, differed from the literature using fuel reprocessing liquid waste. Its differences could be influenced the nitrous acid, which was reduced the generation of RuO.

Study on release and transport of aerial radioactive materials in reprocessing plant, 8; Cold large scale test

Abe, Hitoshi; Masaki, Tomoo; Watanabe, Koji; Suzuki, Shinya; Tashiro, Shinsuke; Amano, Yuki; Yamane, Yuichi; Yoshida, Kazuo; Uchiyama, Gunzo; Ueda, Yoshinori*; et al.

no journal, , 

The release and transport characteristics of radioactive materials under the boiling and desiccating accident of the high active liquid waste in a reprocessing plant have been studied. Ruthenium is one of the important nuclides for evaluating public dose from the volatile viewpoint. By using apparatus which can control the experimental condition of temperature and atmosphere composition in the gas phase, the transport characteristics data of RuO which is chemical form of Ru with volatility was acquired. As the results, it was found that RuO would transport in the gas phase without thermal decomposition and deposition onto the inner wall of glass under the experimental condition with nitric acid vapor.