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Matsui, Yoshinori; Takahashi, Hiroyuki; Yamamoto, Masaya; Nakata, Masahito; Yoshitake, Tsunemitsu; Abe, Kazuyuki; Yoshikawa, Katsunori; Iwamatsu, Shigemi; Ishikawa, Kazuyoshi; Kikuchi, Taiji; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2009-072, 144 Pages, 2010/03
"R&D Project on Irradiation Damage Management Technology for Structural Materials of Long-life Nuclear Plant" was carried out from FY2006 in a fund of a trust enterprise of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The coupled irradiations or single irradiation by JOYO fast reactor and JRR-3 thermal reactor were performed for about two years. The irradiation specimens are very important materials to establish of "Evaluation of Irradiation Damage Indicator" in this research. For the acquisition of the examination specimens irradiated by the JOYO and JRR-3, we summarized about the overall plan, the work process and the results for the study to utilize these reactors and some facilities of hot laboratory (WASTEF, JMTR-HL, MMF and FMF) of the Oarai Research-and-Development Center and the Nuclear Science Research Institute in the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
Kitawaki, Shinichi; Shinozaki, Tadahiro; Fukushima, Mineo; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Yahagi, Noboru*; Kurata, Masaki*
Nuclear Technology, 162(2), p.118 - 123, 2008/05
Times Cited Count:17 Percentile:72.99(Nuclear Science & Technology)A series test of pyro-process was carried out to recover U-Pu alloy from MONJU MOX pellets. In the Li-reduction step, the reduction behavior of MOX was similar to that of UO. In the electrorefining step, the separation factor between U and Pu was 5.7 for the combination of reduced MOX anode and liquid cadmium cathode, which is almost comparable to the value in the previous studies. For the material balance, approximately 98% of U and 103% of Pu were detected in the electrodes or molten salt after the electrolysis with respect to the initial amounts in the anode or molten salt. Considering the analytical error of ICP-AES, these values are reasonable. The remained amount of U in the anode was slightly larger than that of Pu due to the re-oxidation. The U-Pu alloy ingot was successfully formed by distillation of Cd.
Koyama, Tadafumi*; Hijikata, Takatoshi*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Inoue, Tadashi*; Kitawaki, Shinichi; Shinozaki, Tadahiro; Fukushima, Mineo; Myochin, Munetaka
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 44(3), p.382 - 392, 2007/03
Times Cited Count:24 Percentile:82.64(Nuclear Science & Technology)Electrometallurgical pyroprocessing is a promising technology to realize actinide fuel cycle. Integrated experiments to demonstrate electrometallurgical pyroprocessing of plutonium oxide in continuous operation were carried out. In each test, 10 to 20 g of PuO was reacted with Li reductant to form metal product. The reduction products were charged in the anode basket of the electrorefiner with LiCl-KCl-UCl electrolyte. With using the anodes, deposition of uranium on the solid cathode was carried out, when PuCl concentration was low. After Pu/U ratio in salt electrolyte was increased enough, plutonium and uranium were recovered simultaneously on the liquid cadmium cathode. By heating up the deposits for distillation of the salt and the cadmium, U metal or Pu-U alloyed metal were obtained as residues in the crucible. It was first result to demonstrate the recovery of metal actinides in the continuous operation of pyroprocessing of oxide fuels.
Kitawaki, Shininchi; Shinozaki, Tadahiro; Fukushima, Mineo; Hijikata, Takatoshi*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Koyama, Tadafumi*
Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Energy System for Future Generation and Global Sustainability (GLOBAL 2005) (CD-ROM), 5 Pages, 2005/10
Electrometallurgical pyroprocess is a key innovative technology to realize closed actinides cycle with keeping high proliferation-resistance and economy. JNC and CRIEPI have been carrying out the integrated tests of electrometallurgical reprocessing of metal and oxide Pu-containing fuel to demonstrate whole process in continuous operation. After intensive cold test to confirm the functions of experimental apparatus and the test conditions, recovery test of actinide metal product from actinide oxide fuels has started as a first series of the integrated tests. In this report, result of the recovery test is described to elucidate the material flow in the process.
Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Narita, Hirokazu*; Suzuki, Shinichi; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Motohashi, Haruhiko; Ono, Hideo; Usami, Noriko*; Kobayashi, Katsumi*
Photon Factory Activity Report 1997, P. 81, 1997/00
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Kitawaki, Shinichi; Shinozaki, Tadahiro; Fukushima, Mineo; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Yahagi, Noboru*; Kurata, Masaki*
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Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Kurata, Masaki*; Yahagi, Noboru*; Kitawaki, Shinichi; Shinozaki, Tadahiro; Fukushima, Mineo
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Yahagi, Noboru*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Kurata, Masaki*; Kitawaki, Shinichi; Fukushima, Mineo; Shinozaki, Tadahiro
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Kurata, Masaki*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Yahagi, Noboru*; Kitawaki, Shinichi; Fukushima, Mineo; Shinozaki, Tadahiro
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Matsui, Yoshinori; Nabeya, Hideaki; Kusunoki, Tsuyoshi; Takahashi, Hiroyuki; Aizawa, Masao; Nakata, Masahito; Numata, Masami; Usami, Koji; Endo, Shinya; Ito, Kazuhiro; et al.
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We are proceeding with the study of "R&D Project on Irradiation Damage Management Technology for Structural Materials of Long-life Nuclear Plant". For the study, it is important that the irradiated specimens are gotten by the coupling of JRR-3 and JOYO. This reports the total irradiation plan in the study, and the executed work for the coupling irradiation (JRR-3 and JOYO) including the Hot facilities work of Tokai and Oarai in the 2006 fiscal year.
Okajima, Shigeaki; Nishi, Hiroshi; Yamane, Yoshihiro*; Kanemoto, Shigeru*; Yamane, Tsuyoshi; Mori, Takamasa; Kitamura, Yasunori; Fukushima, Masahiro; Kitano, Akihiro; Ando, Masaki; et al.
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The program was planned and has been carried out to develop of the reactivity feedback effect measurement techniques under sub-critical condition in the start-up experiment for fast reactors. The program includes the demonstration of the developed technique in fast critical assembly (FCA) and the proposal of the appropriate measurement system based on the results. The background and the purposes of the program and the outline of development subjects are presented.
Hirao, Norie; Baba, Yuji; Sekiguchi, Tetsuhiro; Shimoyama, Iwao; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Suzuki, Shinichi; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Usami, Noriko*; Kobayashi, Katsumi*
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We report here the facility of radioactive materials beamline at KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization). The beamline was designed and built by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The experimental stations of BL-27 are located inside the "hot" laboratory where radioactive materials or samples including U or Th can be handled, in order to irradiate these samples with synchrotron X-rays. The beamline is divided into two branch lines; one is BL-27A for soft X-rays (1.8 to 6 keV) and the other is BL-27B for X-rays (4 to 20 keV). In BL-27A, irradiation apparatuses for radiobiology, photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) and photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) are installed in tandem. In BL-27B, irradiation apparatuses for radiobiology and XAFS spectrometer are inside hatch. This beamline is equipped with XAFS experiments (transmission XAFS, fluorescent XAFS and Imaging XAFS).
Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Tsukada, Takeshi*; Morita, Yasuji
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Development of high-level liquid waste (HLW) conditioning technology for advanced nuclear fuel cycle was conducted for the purpose of the reduction of potential problems in the verification process for HLW. It includes development of separation technology for Mo, Pd and Ru from HLW and development of separate treatment of the insoluble residue. To evaluate characteristics of the insoluble residue, simulated residue of metal alloy composed of Ru, Rh, Pd, Mo and Re was dissolved with heated nitric acid. The results showed that higher concentration of Pd and Mo in the alloy makes the alloy easier to be dissolved. The alloy without Pd was hardly dissolved by nitric acid. On the other hand, the alloy without Ru was dissolved easily.
Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Tsukada, Takeshi*; Yamagishi, Isao; Morita, Yasuji
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Development of high-level liquid waste (HLW) conditioning technology for advanced nuclear fuel cycle was conducted for the purpose of the reduction of potential problems in the verification process for HLW. It includes development of separation technology for Mo, Pd and Ru from HLW and development of separate treatment of the insoluble residue. To evaluate characteristics of the insoluble residue, simulated residue of metal alloy composed of Ru, Mo, Rh and Pd was dissolved with heated nitric acid. The results showed that higher concentration of Pd in the alloy makes the alloy easier to be dissolved, and higher concentration of Ru makes the alloy more difficult to be dissolved.
Morita, Yasuji; Yamagishi, Isao; Sato, Soichi; Kirishima, Akira*; Fujii, Toshiyuki*; Uehara, Akihiro*; Tsukada, Takeshi*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Kurosaki, Ken*
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Development of high-level liquid waste (HLW) conditioning technology for advanced nuclear fuel cycle was conducted for the purpose of the reduction of potential problems in the verification process for HLW. It includes development of separation technology for Mo, Pd and Ru from HLW and development of separate treatment of the insoluble residue. The present report gives the overall results of the research and development and their evaluation. For the Mo separation, the extraction process with HDEHP was developed by performing continuous extraction tests and process simulation by a calculation code. An extraction process for Pd by 5,8-diethyl-7-hydroxy-6-dodecanone oxime was also developed, but was evaluated as less mature than the HEDHP process. As Ru separation method, volatilization of RuO after electrochemical oxidation was examined. Dissolution residue (metal alloy) and recovered Pd and Ru were solidified together by hot-press method.
Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Tsukada, Takeshi*; Morita, Yasuji
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Development of high-level liquid waste (HLW) conditioning technology for advanced nuclear fuel cycle was conducted for the purpose of the reduction of potential problems in the verification process for HLW. It includes development of separation technology for Mo, Pd and Ru from HLW and development of separate treatment of the insoluble residue. To evaluate characteristics of the insoluble residue, simulated residue of metal alloy composed of Ru, Rh, Pd, Mo and Re was dissolved with heated nitric acid. The results showed that higher concentration of Pd and Mo in the alloy makes the alloy easier to be dissolved. The alloy without Pd was hardly dissolved by nitric acid. On the other hand, the alloy without Ru was dissolved easily.
Makino, Hitoshi; Asano, Hidekazu*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Kanehira, Norio*; Ikeda, Takao*; Kawai, Kota*; Watanabe, Daisuke*
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This presentation shows current status of discussion on "A trial assessment for MOX plu-thermal cycle" which is a challenge as part of an attempt to assess total performance of advanced nuclear fuel cycle in the Research Committee on Disposal of Radioactive Waste and Partitioning-Transmutation Technology.
Makino, Hitoshi; Asano, Hidekazu*; Usami, Tsuyoshi*; Tsukada, Takeshi*; Ikeda, Takao*; Kawai, Kota*; Watanabe, Daisuke*
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This presentation shows current status of discussion on "An assessment for MOX plu-thermal cycle" which is a challenge as part of an attempt to assess total performance of advanced nuclear fuel cycle in the Research Committee on Disposal of Radioactive Waste and Partitioning-Transmutation Technology.