Experimental investigation of nonisothermal interaction between Fe-Zr melt and stainless steel forming "metallic debris" in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Ito, Ayumi*; Kanno, Tatsuya*; Iwama, Takayuki*; Ueda, Shigeru*; Sato, Takumi; Nagae, Yuji

Annals of Nuclear Energy, 217, p.111333_1 - 111333_14, 2025/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2025.111333

In the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2, the formation of a metallic pool, mainly comprising Fe and Zr, has been proposed as a mechanism contributing to the failure of the reactor pressure vessel. This study focuses on material interactions during the early core degradation that led to metallic pool formation in the late phase of the in-vessel degradation process. Initially, two compositions, Fe-87Zr and Fe-15Zr (at%), were heated to the liquidus temperature of 1723 K, dropped onto SS at lower temperatures, and the metallographic structure of the reaction products was examined. Subsequently, the Fe-87Zr melt at temperatures ranging from 1723 to 1873 K was dropped onto oxidized SS to evaluate the influence of the oxide layer on degradation. This study confirmed that the liquidus temperatures of all intermetallic compounds were below 2000 K, and the metallic debris could be a source of the "metallic pool formation" predicted by recent severe accident analysis.

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.

Spectroscopic evidence of band Jahn-Teller distortion upon martensitic phase transition in Heusler-type Ni-Fe(Co)-Ga ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy films

Sumida, Kazuki*; Shirai, Kaito*; Zhu, S.-Y.*; Taniguchi, Masaki*; Ye, M.*; Ueda, Shigenori*; Takeda, Yukiharu; Saito, Yuji; Aseguinolaza, I. R.*; Barandiarn, J. M.*; et al.

Physical Review B, 91(13), p.134417_1 - 134417_6, 2015/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.134417

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.

Quasiparticle interference on the surface of BiSe induced by cobalt adatom in the absence of ferromagnetic ordering

Ye. M.*; Eremeev, S. V.*; Kuroda, Kenta*; Krasovskii, E. E.*; Chulkov, E. V.*; Takeda, Yukiharu; Saito, Yuji; Okamoto, Kazuaki*; Zhu, S. Y.*; Miyamoto, Koji*; et al.

Physical Review B, 85(20), p.205317_1 - 205317_5, 2012/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205317

no abstracts in English

Development of accurate radioactivity assessment system for radiation survey with various detectors

Kurihara, Osamu; Kim, E.*; Ueda, Junichi*; Yamada, Yuji*; Kido, Hiroko*; Oguri, Tomomi*; Nemoto, Shintaro*; Nemoto, Makoto*; Akashi, Makoto*

Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology (Internet), 1, p.248 - 251, 2011/02

https://doi.org/10.15669/pnst.1.248

To replay the demand from the sites of radiation emergency medicine, we developed a prototype of a computer system for assessing radioactive contamination accidentally remained in the wound or on the skin surface. This system implements numerical calibration of detectors measuring the contaminant by using a Monte Carlo simulation-based radiation transport code, MCNPX coupled to a numerical phantom modeling the contaminants and the surrounding tissue. By the help of functional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) provided by the system, a user can perform desired simulations without complicated procedures in creating input files for MCNPX. In the present work, benchmark calculations of MCNPX were conducted to verify the simulations, and we optimized detection-related parameters not sufficiently provided by suppliers. The developed system would be useful for better assessments of the radioactive contamination.

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

Spectroscopic characterization of ultrashort laser driven targets incorporating both Boltzmann and particle-in-cell models

Sherrill, M. E.*; Abdallah, J.*; Csanak, G.*; Dodd, E. S.*; Fukuda, Yuji; Akahane, Yutaka; Aoyama, Makoto; Inoue, Norihiro*; Ueda, Hideki*; Yamakawa, Koichi; et al.

High-Power Laser Ablation VII (Proceedings of SPIE Vol.7005), p.70051R_1 - 70051R_11, 2008/06

Spectroscopic characterization of an ultrashort-pulse-laser-driven Ar cluster target incorporating both Boltzmann and particle-in-cell models

Sherrill, M. E.*; Abdallah, J. Jr.*; Csanak, G.*; Dodd, E. S.*; Fukuda, Yuji; Akahane, Yutaka; Aoyama, Makoto; Inoue, Norihiro*; Ueda, Hideki*; Yamakawa, Koichi; et al.

Physical Review E, 73(6), p.066404_1 - 066404_6, 2006/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.73.066404

A model that solves simultaneously both the electron and atomic kinetics was used to generate synthetic He X-ray spectra to characterize a high intensity ultrashort laser driven Ar cluster target experiment. In particular, level populations were obtained from a detailed collisional-radiative model where collisional rates were computed from a time varying electron distribution function obtained from the solution of the zero dimensional Boltzmann equation. In addition, aparticle-in-cell simulation was used to model the laser interaction with the cluster target and provided the initial electron energy distribution function (EEDF) for the Boltzmann solver. This study suggests that the high density plasma contribution to the time-integrated He spectrum was in a highly non-equilibrium state in both the EEDF and the ion level populations and provides a prediction of 5.7 ps for the average cluster integrity time for this high density state.

X-ray diffraction experiments under pulsed magnetic fields above 30T

Inami, Toshiya; Owada, Kenji; Matsuda, Yasuhiro*; Ueda, Yuji*; Nojiri, Hiroyuki*; Murakami, Yoichi*; Arima, Takahisa*; Ota, Hiroto*; Zhang, W.*; Yoshimura, Kazuyoshi*

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 238(1-4), p.233 - 236, 2005/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2005.06.053

Usually, X-ray diffraction experiments under strong magnetic fields are carried out using a superconducting magnet and the maximum field is limited up to 15T. In order to overcome this limitation, we have constructed an X-ray diffraction system combined with a pulsed magnet. The structural phase transition of PrCaMnO around 8 T and the valence transition of YbInCu around 26 T are shown as a demonstration.