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Wada, Yuki*; Wu, T.*; Kamogawa, Makoto*; Wang, D.*; Okada, Go*; Nanto, Hidehito*; Sawano, Tatsuya*; Kubo, Mamoru*; Yonetoku, Daisuke*; Diniz, G. Z.*; et al.
Journal of Geophysical Research; Atmospheres, 130(24), p.e2025JD043927_1 - e2025JD043927_16, 2025/12
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)Wada, Kazuma*; Kazama, Hiroyuki*; Abe, Chikage*; Onishi, Takashi; Yamamoto, Masahiko; Taguchi, Shigeo; Kuno, Takehiko; Maeda, Koji; Idemitsu, Kazuya*; Suzuki, Tatsuya*
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 334(11), p.8961 - 8968, 2025/11
The feasibility of using commercially available polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP) as a pretreatment for mass spectrometry to separate actinides was investigated. Uranium, thorium, and plutonium were used as actinides in the study. Adsorption data for An(IV) and An(VI) were obtained by adsorption experiments in nitric acid. In addition, An(III)/An(IV)/An(VI) mutual separation was successfully performed by a column separation method using PVPP. Furthermore, the elution efficiency of U(VI) was improved by the introduction of carbonate ions. This method may be applicable as a mutual separation for actinide mass spectrometry.
Wada, Yuki; Shibamoto, Yasuteru; Hibiki, Takashi*
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 249, p.127219_1 - 127219_16, 2025/10
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：55.96(Thermodynamics)Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Sawada, Shinichi*; Koshikawa, Hiroshi*; Yamaki, Tetsuya*
Material Stage, 25(6), p.76 - 80, 2025/09
A thermochemical water-splitting iodine-sulfur process enables us to provide the Carbon-free hydrogen (H
) at high-efficiency levels, and it uses high-temperature heat sources, including high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, solar heat, and more. The cation exchange membranes (CEMs) for the HI mediated electro-electrodialysis (EED) were developed using a radiation grafted polymerization method in order to improve the process efficiency of the IS process. High proton (H
) conductivity and selectivity are required for the performance of CEMs to reduce the consumption energy for EED. The H conductivity of the radiation grafted CEMs were successfully improved by controlling the grafting amount, comparing with that of Nafion. Moreover, the H selectivity and water transport of the developed CEMs was improved by introducing the crosslinker. Currently, the further improvement of the membrane performance is underway by using the ion-track grafting technic.
Iketani, Shotaro; Suzuki, Takeshi; Yokobori, Tomohiko; Sugawara, Satoshi; Yokota, Akira; Kikuchi, Genta; Muraguchi, Yoshinori; Kitahara, Masaru; Seya, Manato; Kurosawa, Tsuyoshi; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2025-001, 169 Pages, 2025/08
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The radioactive waste treatment facilities at the Nuclear Science Research Institute includes the Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility No. 3, Waste Size Reduction and Storage Facility, and Waste Volume Reduction Facility. These three facilities come under the purview of the Act on the Regulation of Nuclear Source Material, Nuclear Fuel Material and Reactors, and are included under Class C of the act based on the seismic requirements specified in the Act. We assessed the seismic capacity of these three radioactive waste treatment facilities based on the current Building Standards Act, to verify whether they comply with the new regulatory requirements enforced by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. We found that the allowable stress of a few structural members used in the construction of the facilities did not meet the regulatory requirements. After studying the approval granted by the NRA for the construction plans, including the design and construction methods (design and construction plans) of the three facilities on March 5, 2021, we made aseismic reinforcement at these facilities between 2021 and 2022. This report presents an overview of the seismic design of these facilities and an outline of the aseismic reinforcement conducted, management system existing, safety measures adopted, and the preoperational inspections conducted at these facilities.
/KNbO nanocomposite particlesYoneda, Yasuhiro; Kobayashi, Toru; Tsuji, Takuya; Shibata, Goro; Takeda, Yukiharu*; Saito, Yuji; Khanal, G. P.*; Fujii, Ichiro*; Ueno, Shintaro*; Sato, Yukio*; et al.
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 64(8), p.08SP07_1 - 08SP07_8, 2025/08
It has become possible to synthesize high-quality composite nanoparticles in which a different material is grown on the surface of nanoparticle crystals. To evaluate such nanostructures, it is effective to combine different evaluation methods at various scales. We performed various structural and electronic state evaluations of BaTiO/KNbO nanocomposite particles using synchrotron radiation. From the structural evaluation, it was confirmed that the nanocomposite particles have a core of 100 nm of BaTiO covered with 20 nm of KNbO. The O-K absorption edge spectrum of the outermost surface KNbO was different from that of the bulk and nanoparticles, and it was found that the chemical bonding state changes when KNbO
is made into composite particles.
Satou, Akira; Wada, Yuki; Shibamoto, Yasuteru
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 437, p.114020_1 - 114020_14, 2025/06
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)Post-boiling transition (post-BT) heat transfer is essential for analyzing the duration of surface dryout and peak cladding temperature during abnormal transients and accidents in light water reactors. The rewetting phenomenon is very important for evaluating the dryout duration. However, due to the lack of an experimental database on rewetting velocities under high flow and heat flux conditions, sufficient data for model development and validation do not exist. Therefore, a database on rewetting velocities caused by stepwise boundary condition changes under a wide range and multiple combination of thermal-hydraulic conditions was obtained using a single-tube experimental apparatus. Based on this database and the characteristics of rewetting velocities obtained, an experimental correlation for rewetting velocity was proposed. This correlation predicts the rewetting velocity accurately by taking the change in the mass flux of the liquid or gas phase with stepwise transients as a parameter. This suggested that the change in the mass flux of the gas or liquid phase near the liquid film front has a strong influence on the rewetting under extremely high mass flux conditions compared to the reflooding process.
Wada, Yuki*; Morimoto, Takeshi*; Wu, T.*; Wang, D.*; Kikuchi, Hiroshi*; Nakamura, Yoshitaka*; Yoshikawa, Eiichi*; Ushio, Tomoo*; Tsuchiya, Harufumi
Science Advances (Internet), 11(21), p.eads6906_1 - eads6906_10, 2025/05
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Wada, Yuki; Shibamoto, Yasuteru; Hibiki, Takashi*
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 239, p.126598_1 - 126598_18, 2025/04
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：46.82(Thermodynamics)Abe, Yukiko; Nakayama, Masataka*; Atarashi-Andoh, Mariko; Tange, Takeshi*; Sawada, Haruo*; Liang, N.*; Koarashi, Jun
Geoderma, 455, p.117221_1 - 117221_11, 2025/03
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Soil Science)Subsoils (typically below a depth of 30 cm) contain more than half of global soil carbon (C) as soil organic C (SOC). However, the extent to which subsoil SOC contributes to the global C cycle and the factors that control it are unclear because quantitative evaluation of carbon dioxide (CO) emission from subsoils through direct observations is limited. This study aimed to quantify CO emission from subsoils and determine factors that control CO emission, focusing on the decomposability of soil organic matter (SOM) and the characteristics of the mineral-SOM association in soils. Therefore, a laboratory incubation experiment was conducted using surface soils (0-10 cm and 10-25 cm depth) and subsoils (30-45 cm and 45-60 cm depth) collected from four Japanese forest sites with two different soil types (volcanic ash and non-volcanic ash soils). The CO emission from the subsoils was found to be responsible for 6%-23% of total CO emission from the upper 60-cm mineral soil across all sites. Radiocarbon signatures of CO released from the subsoils indicated the decomposition of decades-old SOM in the subsoils. The correlations between CO emission rate and soil factors across both soil types suggested that the CO emission from the subsoils is mainly controlled by the amounts of SOC easily available to soil microbes and microbial biomass C, not by the amounts of reactive minerals. Given the potential active participation of subsoils in terrestrial C cycling, most of the current soil C models that ignore subsoil C cycling are likely to underestimate the response of soil C to future climate change. The quantitative and mechanistic understanding of C cycling through a huge subsoil C pool is critical to accurately evaluating the role of soil C in the global C balance.
Katsumura, Kosuke*; Takagi, Junichi*; Miyahara, Naoya*; Uchida, Shunsuke*; Koma, Yoshikazu; Karasawa, Hidetoshi; Miwa, Shuhei; Satou, Yukihiko; Nagai, Haruyasu; Kurata, Masaki; et al.
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi ATOMO
, 67(2), p.128 - 132, 2025/02
no abstracts in English
Okagaki, Yuria; Takeda, Takeshi; Wada, Yuki; Abe, Satoshi; Ichihara, Kyoko*; Shiotani, Hitoshi*
Proceedings of 10th Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics for Nuclear Reactor Safety (CFD4NRS-10) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2025/00
Nakayama, Masataka; Abe, Yukiko; Atarashi-Andoh, Mariko; Tange, Takeshi*; Sawada, Haruo*; Liang, N.*; Koarashi, Jun
Applied Soil Ecology, 201, p.105485_1 - 105485_12, 2024/09
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：51.63(Soil Science)Nitrogen often limits plant growth in forest ecosystems. Plants, including trees, change vertical root distribution when nutrient competition is strong within surface soil layer and take up nitrogen even from subsurface soil layers in addition to the surface soil. However, there is still limited knowledge about nitrogen cycles within deeper soil layers. In this study, we investigated the vertical profiles (0-60 cm) of the net nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates at four Japanese forest sites with two different soil types (Andosols and Cambisols). The partial least square path modeling (PLS-PM) was used to determine factors affecting nitrogen-cycling processes. The net nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates per unit soil weight were considerably higher in surface soil layer than in deeper soil layers in Andosols but not in Cambisols. PLS-PM analysis showed that microbial biomass and soil organic matter quantities were the main factors influencing the net nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates, indicating that a similar mechanism creating the spatial variations of nitrogen-cycling processes in surface soil layer predominantly regulates the processes in subsoil layers. Moreover, it was estimated that the net nitrogen mineralization rate could be comparable at all soil types and depths when the rate was expressed per unit soil volume. Therefore, our results suggest that subsoil layers are a quantitatively important nitrogen source for plant nutrients in Andosols and Cambisols, supporting high forest productivity.
Wada, Yuki; Hirose, Yoshiyasu; Shibamoto, Yasuteru
Ultrasonics, 141, p.107346_1 - 107346_16, 2024/07
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：68.64(Acoustics)Nakanishi, Yohei*; Shibata, Motoki*; Sawada, Satoshi*; Kondo, Hiroaki*; Motokawa, Ryuhei; Kumada, Takayuki; Yamamoto, Katsuhiro*; Mita, Kazuki*; Miyazaki, Tsukasa*; Takenaka, Mikihito*
Polymer, 306, p.127209_1 - 127209_7, 2024/06
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：59.68(Polymer Science)Iwata, Takuma*; Kosa, Towa*; Nishioka, Yukimi*; Owada, Kiyotaka*; Sumida, Kazuki; Annese, E.*; Kakoki, Masaaki*; Kuroda, Kenta*; Iwasawa, Hideaki*; Arita, Masashi*; et al.
Scientific Reports (Internet), 14, p.127_1 - 127_8, 2024/01
Times Cited Count：12 Percentile：84.17(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Wada, Yuki*; Kamogawa, Masashi*; Kubo, Mamoru*; Enoto, Teruaki*; Hayashi, Shugo*; Sawano, Tatsuya*; Yonetoku, Daisuke*; Tsuchiya, Harufumi
Journal of Geophysical Research; Atmospheres, 128(21), p.e2023JD039354_1 - e2023JD039354_20, 2023/11
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：24.45(Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)Katsumura, Kosuke*; Takagi, Junichi*; Hosomi, Kenji*; Miyahara, Naoya*; Koma, Yoshikazu; Imoto, Jumpei; Karasawa, Hidetoshi; Miwa, Shuhei; Shiotsu, Hiroyuki; Hidaka, Akihide*; et al.
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi ATOMO, 65(11), p.674 - 679, 2023/11
no abstracts in English
Wada, Yuki*; Wu, T.*; Wang, D.*; Enoto, Teruaki*; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro*; Morimoto, Takeshi*; Nakamura, Yoshitaka*; Shinoda, Taro*; Tsuchiya, Harufumi
Journal of Geophysical Research; Atmospheres, 128(15), p.e2023JD038606_1 - e2023JD038606_9, 2023/08
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：41.17(Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences)Okagaki, Yuria; Shibamoto, Yasuteru; Wada, Yuki; Abe, Satoshi; Hibiki, Takashi*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(8), p.955 - 968, 2023/08
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：45.53(Nuclear Science & Technology)