The Quadrupedal Robots (Spot) operation manual (The Emergency Response Team against nuclear accidents in JAEA)

Watanabe, Kaho; Nishiyama, Yutaka; Kakuta, Masakatsu*; Hayasaka, Toshiro*

JAEA-Testing 2025-003, 52 Pages, 2025/11

JAEA-Testing-2025-003.pdf:5.17MB

There is an emergency response team against nuclear facilities accidents of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The team is managed by the Maintenance and Operation Section for Remote Control Equipment. One of the important tasks of the team is purchasing remote-control robots, the quadrupedal robots (called Spot), were purchased in 2022 and 2023 to prepare for the nuclear disaster in JAEA. This report shows the remote-control manual for the quadrupedal robots (Spot), and it is focused on the necessary operations for the team.

Compliance measures at the Radioactive Waste Treatment Facilities at the Nuclear Science Research Institute; Aseismic reinforcement of the Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility No. 3, Waste Size Reduction and Storage Facility, and Waste Volume Reduction Facility

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

JAEA-Technology-2025-001.pdf:14.22MB

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.

Annual report for FY2021 on the activities of Naraha Center for Remote Control Technology Development (April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022)

Akiyama, Yoichi; Shibanuma, So; Yanagisawa, Kenichi*; Yamada, Taichi; Suzuki, Kenta; Yoshida, Moeka; Ono, Takahiro; Kawabata, Kuniaki; Watanabe, Kaho; Morimoto, Kyoichi; et al.

JAEA-Review 2023-015, 60 Pages, 2023/09

JAEA-Review-2023-015.pdf:4.78MB

Naraha Center for Remote Control Technology Development (NARREC) was established in Japan Atomic Energy Agency to promote a decommissioning work of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Fukushima Daiichi NPS). NARREC consists of a Full-scale Mock-up Test Building and Research Management Building. Various test facilities are installed in these buildings for the decommissioning work of Fukushima Daiichi NPS. These test facilities are intended to be used for various users, such as companies engaged in the decommissioning work, research and development institutions, educational institutions and so on. The number of NARREC facility uses was 84 in FY2021. We participated booth exhibitions and presentations on the decommissioning related events. Moreover, we also contributed to the development of human resources by supporting the 6th Creative Robot Contest for Decommissioning. As a new project, "Narahakko Children's Classroom" was implemented for elementary school students in Naraha Town. This report summarizes the activities of NARREC in FY2021, such as the utilization of facilities and equipment of NARREC, the development of remote-control technologies for supporting the decommissioning work, arrangement of the remote-control machines for emergency response, and training for operators by using the machines.

Development of performance evaluation method for nuclear emergency response robot

Yamada, Taichi; Watanabe, Kaho; Suzuki, Soichiro; Kawabata, Kuniaki

Keisoku To Seigyo, 62(5), p.268 - 271, 2023/05

https://doi.org/10.11499/sicejl.62.268

In Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) emergency response and decommissioning, high radiation or unknown environments significantly restrict human workers' activity. Thus, a remotely controlled robot is essential to operate in such an environment instead of human workers. However, remote robot operation is not easy, and it is required to understand the robot's capability, that is, what/how the robot can do on the site. Therefore, robot evaluation method development is important for remote robot operation in disaster sites. We survey the required capabilities for a remotely controlled robot from the remote operation cases in FDNPS and develop test methods to evaluate the capabilities. This paper introduces the survey of FDNPS remote operation cases and the test method development.

A Radiation hardened CMOS image sensor with almost zero dark current increase during radiation

Watanabe, Takashi*; Takeuchi, Tomoaki; Ozawa, Osamu*; Komanome, Hirohisa*; Akahori, Tomoyuki*; Tsuchiya, Kunihiko

Proceedings of 2019 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW 2019) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2019/06

https://www.imagesensors.org/Past%20Workshops/2019%20Workshop/2019%20Papers/R46.pdf

Radiation hard image sensors have been developed past decades among the world. Almost papers discussed properties before and after radiation but images during radiation were not described yet. We have developed a new type of rad-hard pixel and integrated to 1.3M-pixel, 18-bit digital CMOS image sensor. Pixel area consists of several types of variation and the sensor has been analyzed during gamma ray radiation higher than 1 kGy/h up to 200 kGy. As the result, one type of pixel showed almost zero dark current increase at whole period.

Overview of JENDL-4.0/HE and benchmark calculations

Kunieda, Satoshi; Iwamoto, Osamu; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Minato, Futoshi; Okamoto, Tsutomu; Sato, Tatsuhiko; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Iwamoto, Hiroki; Kitatani, Fumito; et al.

JAEA-Conf 2016-004, p.41 - 46, 2016/09

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2016-004

Neutron- and proton-induced cross-section data are required in a wide energy range beyond 20 MeV, for the design of accelerator applications. New evaluations are performed with recent knowledge in the optical and pre-equilibrium model calculations. We also evaluated cross-sections for p+Li and p+Be which have been highly requested from a medical field. The present high-energy nuclear data library, JENDL-4.0/HE, includes evaluated cross-sections for incident neutrons and protons up to 200 MeV (for about 130 nuclei). We overview substantial features of the library, i.e., (1) systematic evaluation with CCONE code, (2) challenges for evaluations of light nuclei and (3) inheritance of JENDL-4.0 and JENDL/HE-2007. In this talk, we also focus on the results of benchmark calculation for neutronics to show performance of the present library.

Clustering pre-equilibrium model analysis for nucleon-induced alpha-particle spectra up to 200 MeV

Kunieda, Satoshi; Kawano, Toshihiko*; Chadwick, M. B.*; Fukahori, Tokio; Watanabe, Yukinobu*

EPJ Web of Conferences, 21, p.09003_1 - 09003_8, 2012/02

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20122109003

The clustering exciton model of Iwamoto and Harada is applied to the analysis of pre-equilibrium energy spectra for medium-to-heavy nuclei up to 200 MeV. In this work, we calculate alpha-particle formation factors without any approximations that appear in the original model. The clustering process is also considered in both the primary and second pre-equilibrium emissions. We optimize the exciton and the clustering model parameters simultaneously by looking at the experimental and energy spectra. The experimental alpha-particle spectra are well reproduced with a unique set of clustering model parameters, which is independent of incident neutrons/protons. The present analysis also implies that the clustering model parameter is not so different between the medium and heavy nuclei. Our calculations reproduce experimental data generally well up to the incident energy of 150 MeV, but underestimations are seen above this energy.

Recent advances in the JENDL project

Shibata, Keiichi; Nakagawa, Tsuneo; Fukahori, Tokio; Iwamoto, Osamu; Ichihara, Akira; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Kunieda, Satoshi; Otsuka, Naohiko; Katakura, Junichi; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; et al.

Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND 2007), Vol.2, p.727 - 732, 2008/05

General- and special-purpose JENDL data files are being produced in cooperation with the Japanese Nuclear Data Committee. We have developed nuclear model codes to improve the quality of MA and FP data. In the FP region, we obtained global coupled-channel optical model parameters, which can be applied to neutron- and proton-induced reaction data up to 200 MeV. These parameters are used for statistical model calculation. Resolved resonance parameters of MA and FP nuclei were updated to improve the low-energy behavior of the cross sections by using recent measurements. As a follow-up of JENDL-3.3, which was released in 2002, covarainces of several nuclei were estimated for a study on ADS. Concerning special-purpose files, the compilation of the 2007 versions of JENDL High Energy File and Photonulcear Data Files is in the final stage.

Nuclear data evaluations for JENDL high-energy file

Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Fukahori, Tokio; Kosako, Kazuaki*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Murata, Toru*; Yamano, Naoki*; Hino, Tetsushi*; Maki, Koichi*; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Odano, Naoteru*; et al.

AIP Conference Proceedings 769, p.326 - 331, 2005/05

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1945015

An overview is presented of recent nuclear data evaluations performed for the JENDL high-energy (JENDL-HE) file, in which neutron and proton cross sections for energies up to 3 GeV are included for the whole 132 nuclides. The current version of the JENDL-HE file consists of neutron total cross sections, nucleon elastic scattering cross sections and angular distributions, nonelastic cross sections, production cross sections and double-differential cross sections of secondary light particles ( He, , and ) and -rays, isotope production cross sections, and fission cross sections in the ENDF6 format. The present evaluations are performed on the basis of experimental data and theoretical model calculations. For the cross section calculations, we have constructed a hybrid calculation code system with some available nuclear model codes and systematics-based codes, such as ECIS96, OPTMAN, GNASH, JQMD, JAM, TOTELA, FISCAL, and so on. The evaluated cross sections are compared with available experimental data and the other evaluations. Future plans of our JENDL-HE project are discussed along with prospective needs of high-energy cross section data.

JENDL PKA/KERMA file for IFMIF project

Fukahori, Tokio; Chiba, Satoshi; Shibata, Keiichi; Ikeda, Yujiro; Aruga, Takeo; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Murata, Toru*; Yamano, Naoki*; Kawai, Masayoshi*

Reactor Dosimetry: Radiation Metrology and Assessment (ASTM STP 1398), p.591 - 598, 2001/00

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