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Li, X.; 山路 哲史*; 佐藤 一憲*; 山下 拓哉
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 214, p.111217_1 - 111217_13, 2025/05
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)The decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi NPP Unit-2 requires understanding of reactor damage and fuel debris distribution for effective debris retrieval. This study numerically analyzes potential Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) boundary failure due to eutectic melting of Control Rod Drive (CRD) housings during reheating after debris bed dryout. The Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method, with an enthalpy-based temperature algorithm and Boussinesq approximation, is applied to simulate melt/solid interactions in a 2-D model of the lower plenum. The CRD housing melting temperature is set at 1523 K based on a quasi-binary phase diagram of 304 Stainless Steel (SS) and Zirconium (Zr) and ELSA experiments. Results suggest local RPV failure at CRD housings, leading to melt release and refreezing. The estimated failure occurs 8-12 hours post-dryout (ca. 12:00-16:00 on 3/15/2011), providing insights into melt progression and boundary breach scenarios in Unit-2.
山下 拓哉
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Information Collection and Evaluation (FACE) Project Annual Report 2023, p.55 - 62, 2024/11
The FACE project, initiated in July 2022 with a planned duration of four years, involves 25 organizations from 13 countries and the European Commission. It serves as a constructive extension of previous projects, including BSAF, BSAF2, PreADES, and ARC-F. The primary objectives of the FACE project are to refine the interpretation of accident scenarios, evaluate current modeling capabilities for severe accident progression, explore directions for further improvement, analyze U-bearing particles, and establish suitable hot laboratory analysis techniques and procedures for future fuel debris analysis. Additionally, the project maintains communication channels between Japanese organizations and international partners to facilitate the sharing of data, information, and expertise. This chapter reports on the results of the ELSA-3 tests, which focus on damage caused by eutectic melting in the liquid metal pool and the control rod drive (CRD). These tests aim to enhance understanding of the failure mechanisms of the lower head (LH) during the severe accident progression observed in the FACE project. The findings indicate that eutectic melting can lead to boundary failure of the LH, depending on the conditions of the molten pool formed in the lower plenum. The failure behaviors observed in these tests provide valuable insights into the progression of the 1F2 and 1F1 accidents.
山田 剛司*; Li, X.; 山下 拓哉; 山路 哲史*
Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE31) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2024/11
本研究では、MPS法によるMCCI対応溶融物挙動解析コードに、長期間のコンクリート浸食挙動の解析を可能とするような新たなクラストモデルを開発した。新クラストモデルでは、長時間にわたるクラスト粒子の物理的移動の累積を可能にしつつ、数値的移動の累積(数値的クリープ)を防ぐことができる。CEAで実施されたVULCANO VBS-U3実験の公開文献を参考に試解析を実施し、模擬炉心物質とコンクリート壁との境界にクラストが形成された後も継続するコンクリートの溶融浸食(アブレーション)挙動を定性的に解析できることを示した。
中村 勇気*; 小島 良洋*; 山下 拓哉; 下村 健太; 溝上 伸也
Proceedings of 14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation, and Safety (NTHOS-14) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2024/08
At the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, it has been reported that several units of containment vessel had failed, and large quantity of radionuclides had been released into the environment. However, the detailed accident progression of such a containment failure, which includes core melt, reactor vessel failure and following containment vessel behavior, has still large uncertainties. Especially for the unit 2 and 3, they had succeeded in the initial core cooling, but at last lost their cooling system and fell into severe accident to release the fission product into the environment. Nowadays, several information has been obtained by the internal inspection into the containment of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants. To clarify the uncertainties in the accident scenario, considering the information and several insights already accustomed by previous research, the latest accident scenario in unit 2 and unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants accident are suggested and tested by the severe accident analysis code, MAAP in this study. It is shown that unit 2 and 3 both accident scenario would have resulted in the thermal stratification in suppression pool which encouraged the containment pressure response in the early phase of the accident. In addition, containment vessel leakage would have occurred and affected the containment depressurization.
佐藤 一憲; 吉川 信治; 山下 拓哉; 下村 健太; Cibula, M.*; 溝上 伸也*
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 422, p.113088_1 - 113088_24, 2024/06
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)The accident progression of the in-vessel phase of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 was analyzed using the MAAP code. Although there is a large uncertainty in the initial stage of accident progression behavior in Unit 1 with little measurement data, it is presumed to have similarities to that of Unit 3. As a result, in Unit 1, since there was almost no alternative water injection during the in-vessel phase, cooling of the debris transferred to the lower plenum was small. It was likely that a large molten pool of metals had formed, and that the steam supply to the high-temperature core materials was suppressed and metal oxidation was relatively small. The analysis results for Unit 1 were compared with those for Units 2 and 3, and differences between units such as the thermal conditions of the debris that relocated to the pedestal and the degree of metal oxidation were shown.
下村 健太; 山下 拓哉; 永江 勇二
Proceedings of 11th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research Conference (ERMSAR 2024) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2024/05
From the results of the internal investigation of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2, it was confirmed that part of the fuel assembly (upper tie plate) had fallen to the bottom of the pedestal periphery. From this result, it could be presumed that RPV has a hole large enough for the upper tie plate to drop. However, internal investigations have not revealed where the holes are located at the bottom of the RPV. One of failure mode of the RPV lower head would be assumed to be mechanical failure. In this failure, it is assumed that the RPV lower head will be damaged due to the accumulation of creep damage caused by core material above the creep temperature of the RPV substructure materials falling into the lower plenum. Such damage evaluation is performed by thermohydraulic-structure coupled analysis. In the analysis during accident, the RPV lower head is exposed to high temperature conditions. Therefore, the material properties of the RPV material in the high temperature range are required for evaluation by analysis. In this study, we obtained the strength data of RPV material form the creep temperature range to near the melting point and formulated the material property formulas (elastoplastic stress-strain, creep strain, creep rupture) necessary for mechanical failure evaluation.
Li, X.; 山路 哲史*; 佐藤 一憲*; 山下 拓哉; 永江 勇二
Proceedings of 11th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research Conference (ERMSAR 2024) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2024/05
For Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) Unit-2, the muon radiography investigation results indicate that the fuel debris are largely retained inside the RPV. The current study focuses on the analysis of metallic melt penetration behavior in the CRD housing with Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method. A three-dimensional CRD housing model with simplified inner structures was established. The injection of SS-Zircaloy eutectic melt into the CRD housing was simulated and its downstream penetration and freezing behavior under vertically varying temperature boundary conditions was analyzed. It is found that the melt would start to freeze and form channel blockages soon after it enters the region with a relatively cold boundary in the downstream.
山下 拓哉; 下村 健太; 永江 勇二; 永井 英一*; 安松 智博*; 中島 悟*; 荻野 翔矢*; 溝上 伸也*
Proceedings of 11th European Review Meeting on Severe Accident Research Conference (ERMSAR 2024) (Internet), 11 Pages, 2024/05
Internal investigations of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (1F) have been conducted, and the internal situation is gradually becoming clearer. In addition, trial debris removal has been conducted and much information is being obtained. The information obtained from the trial debris removal is managed in the decommissioning fundamental research database (debrisWiki), which was established by JAEA and TEPCO. However, it is difficult to understand the entire accident progress only from individual data. Therefore, we developed a 3D view application (debrisEye) for 1F decommissioning. debrisEye was created by Unity. For the CG displayed in debrisEye, pre- and post-accident conditions were constructed. The pre-accident status was created using design information and point cloud data from periodic inspections. The post-accident status was created mainly from the results of the internal investigation. For areas where internal investigations have not yet been obtained, the information in the estimation diagram was reflected. CG displayed on debrisEye can be viewed from any viewpoint and angle using the functionality contained in debrisEye. It is also possible to clipping at any cross section and to show or hide each part. debrisEye can be linked to and used with debrisWiki to write information in any location, thus displaying the analysis results and location of the debris collected. Visual linking of debris analysis results with on-site information is expected to facilitate understanding of accident progress and improve efficiency of decommissioning work.
佐藤 一憲; 吉川 信治; 山下 拓哉; 下村 健太; Cibula, M.*; 溝上 伸也*
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 414, p.112574_1 - 112574_20, 2023/12
Based on the updated knowledge from plant-internal investigations, experiments and computer-model simulations until now, the in-vessel phase of Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3 was analyzed using the MAAP code. In Unit 3, it is considered that ca. 40 percent of UO
fuel was molten when core materials relocated to the lower plenum of the reactor pressure vessel. Initially relocated molten materials would have been fragmented by mixing with liquid water, while solid materials would have relocated later on. With this two-step relocation, debris in the lower plenum seems to have been permeable for coolant, thus debris seems to have been once cooled down effectively. Although the present MAAP analysis seems to slightly underestimate core-material oxidation during the relocation period, this probable underestimation was compensated for by an existing study that was considered more reliable, so that more realistic debris conditions in the lower plenum could be obtained. Probable debris reheat-up behavior was evaluated based on interpretation of the pressure data. This evaluation predicted that the fuel debris in the lower plenum was basically in solid-phase at the time when it relocated to the pedestal. With this study, basic validity of the former prediction of the Unit 3 accident progression behavior was confirmed, and detailed boundary conditions for future studies addressing the later phases were provided.
小山 真一; 池内 宏知; 三次 岳志; 前田 宏治; 佐々木 新治; 大西 貴士; Tsai, T.-H.; 高野 公秀; 深谷 洋行; 中村 聡志; et al.
廃炉・汚染水・処理水対策事業事務局ホームページ(インターネット), 216 Pages, 2023/11
令和3年度及び4年度に原子力機構が補助事業者となって実施した令和3年度開始「廃炉・汚染水対策事業費補助金に係る補助事業(燃料デブリの性状把握のための分析・推定技術の開発(燃料デブリの分析精度向上、熱挙動の推定及び簡易分析のための技術開発))」の成果概要を最終報告として取りまとめた。本報告資料は、廃炉・汚染水・処理水対策事業事務局ウェブサイトにて公開される。
山下 拓哉; 下村 健太; 永江 勇二; 山路 哲史*; 溝上 伸也; 三次 岳志; 小山 真一
廃炉・汚染水・処理水対策事業事務局ホームページ(インターネット), 53 Pages, 2023/10
令和4年度に原子力機構が補助事業者となって実施した「廃炉・汚染水・処理水対策事業費補助金(燃料デブリの性状把握のための分析・推定技術の開発(原子炉圧力容器の損傷状況等の推定のための技術開発))の成果概要を、最終報告として取りまとめた。本報告資料は、廃炉・汚染水・処理水対策事業費事務局ウェブサイトにて公開される。
坂東 大都*; 山路 哲史*; 山下 拓哉
Proceedings of International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management (ICEM2023) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2023/10
The internal investigations of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) Unit 2 indicate multiple breaches in the lower head of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV), which led to discharges of molten core materials. In addition, a large enough breach (es) is expected near the vessel periphery, which allowed relocation of a fuel assembly upper tie plate to the pedestal floor. However, the muon radiography indicates that massive fuel debris are still retained within the RPV lower head. This study aims to provide a comprehensive explanation of such observations by considering interactions of the fuel debris with the thermal insulation plates below the RPV lower head at the time of the accident. The Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method has been developed and pieces of the debris were modeled by rigid bodies to analyze thermal behavior of the fuel debris and their interactions with the insulation plate. The results showed that whether the insulation plate failed or not depended on the initial enthalpy and temperature distribution of the relocated fuel debris on the plate. The results implied that thermal load on the plate was greater below the outer region of the vessel than the central region, because there was larger space between the plate and the vessel for the debris to pileup.
山下 拓哉; 本多 剛*; 溝上 暢人*; 野崎 謙一朗*; 鈴木 博之*; Pellegrini, M.*; 酒井 健*; 佐藤 一憲; 溝上 伸也*
Nuclear Technology, 209(6), p.902 - 927, 2023/06
被引用回数：5 パーセンタイル：82.11(Nuclear Science & Technology)The estimation and understanding of the state of fuel debris and fission products inside the plant is an essential step in the decommissioning of the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F). However, the direct observation of the plant interior, which is under a high radiation environment, is difficult and limited. Therefore, in order to understand the plant interior conditions, a comprehensive analysis and evaluation is necessary, based on various measurement data from the plant, analysis of plant data during the accident progression phase and information obtained from computer simulations for this phase. These evaluations can be used to estimate the conditions of the interior of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and the primary containment vessel (PCV). Herein, 1F Unit 3 was addressed as the subject to produce an estimated diagram of the fuel debris distribution from data obtained about the RPV and PCV based on the comprehensive evaluation of various measurement data and information obtained from the accident progression analysis, which were released to the public in November 2022.
佐藤 一憲; 吉川 信治; 山下 拓哉; Cibula, M.*; 溝上 伸也*
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 404, p.112205_1 - 112205_21, 2023/04
被引用回数：10 パーセンタイル：96.03(Nuclear Science & Technology)これまでのプラント内部調査、実験、コンピュータモデルシミュレーションから得られた最新の知見に基づき、福島第一原子力発電所2号機の原子炉圧力炉容器内フェーズに対するMAAP解析を実施した。2号機では、炉心物質が圧力容器の下部プレナムに移動し、そこで冷却材によって冷却されて固化したときのエンタルピーが比較的低かったと考えられる。MAAPコードは、炉心物質リロケーション期間中の炉心物質の酸化の程度を過小評価する傾向があるが、酸化に係るより信頼性の高い既存研究を活用することによって補正を行うことで、下部プレナム内の燃料デブリ状態の、より現実的な評価を行った。この評価により、2号機事故進展挙動に係る既往予測の基本的妥当性が確認され、今後の後続過程研究を進めるための詳細な境界条件を提供した。下部ヘッドの破損とペデスタルへのデブリ移行に至るデブリ再昇温プロセスに対処する将来研究に、本研究で得た境界条件を反映する必要がある。
下村 健太; 山下 拓哉; 永江 勇二
JAEA-Data/Code 2022-012, 270 Pages, 2023/03
JAEA-Data-Code-2022-012.pdf:38.25MB
発電用原子炉である軽水炉において、東京電力ホールディングス株式会社福島第一原子力発電所と同様な全交流電源喪失が発生した場合には、原子炉圧力容器(RPV: Reactor Pressure Vessel)内の冷却機能の喪失、炉内の水位低下による燃料棒の露出、炉心溶融に伴うRPVの破損やRPV破損に伴う炉内の放射線物質の漏えいが発生することが考えられる。事故進展におけるRPVの損傷、溶融した燃料デブリの流出・拡大等の過程を検証、推定することは、廃炉作業を進める上で重要な情報となる。RPVの破損要因については、RPV下部構造部に加えられる荷重・拘束に起因する破損(力学的破損)、低融点金属や高融点酸化物とRPV底部の構造部材との共晶現象による破損(材料間反応による破損)、RPV底部の構造部材の融点近傍での破損が考えられる。破損要因の内、力学的破損については、数値解析(熱流動解析及び構造解析)により検証を行う。このような数値解析を実施する際には、RPV及び炉内構造物を構成する材料(ジルコニウム、炭化ホウ素、ステンレス鋼、ニッケル合金、低合金鋼等)の融点近傍までの伝熱特性(熱伝導率、比熱、密度)や材料特性(熱膨張係数、ヤング率、ポアソン比、引張、クリープ)が必要となる。本資料においては、公開文献を基に、RPV及び炉内構造物を構成する各材料の融点近傍までの母材の特性データをデータ集として取りまとめた。なお、RPV及び炉内構造物を構成する構造物の中には溶接部も存在するため、今回限られたデータであるが、溶接部に関する特性データも併せて示した。
間所 寛; 山下 拓哉; Gaus-Liu, X.*; Cron, T.*; Fluhrer, B.*; 佐藤 一憲; 溝上 伸也*
Nuclear Technology, 209(2), p.144 - 168, 2023/02
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：30.61(Nuclear Science & Technology)Since the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) lower head failure determines the subsequent ex-vessel accident progression, it is a key issue to understand the accident progression of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F). The RPV failure is largely affected by thermal loads on the vessel wall and thus it is inevitable to understand thermal behavior of molten metallic pool with co- existence of solid oxide fuel debris. In the past decades, numerous experiments have been conducted to investigate a homogeneous molten pool behavior. Few experiments, however, addresses the melting and heat transfer process of debris bed consisted of materials with different melting temperatures. LIVE-J2 experiment aimed to provide the experimental data on a solid-liquid mixture pool in a simulated RPV lower head under various conditions. The extensive measurements of the melt temperature indicate the heat transfer regimes in a solid-liquid mixture pool. The test results showed that the conductive heat transfer was dominant during the steady state along the vessel wall boundary and that convective heat transfer takes place inside the mixture pool. Besides the experimental performance, the test case was numerically simulated by using ANSYS Fluent. The simulation results generally agree with the measured experimental data. The flow regime and transient melt evolution were able to be estimated by the calculated velocity field and the crust thickness, respectively.
山下 拓哉; 佐藤 拓未; 間所 寛; 永江 勇二
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 173, p.109129_1 - 109129_15, 2022/08
被引用回数：5 パーセンタイル：63.07(Nuclear Science & Technology)Decommissioning work occasioned by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) accident of March 2011 is in progress. Severe accident (SA) analysis, testing, and internal investigation are being used to grasp the 1F internal state. A PWR system that refers to the TMI-2 accident is typical for SA codes and testing, on the other hand, a BWR system like 1F is uncommon, understanding the 1F internal state is challenging. The present study conducted the ELSA-1 test, a test that focused on damage from eutectic melting of the liquid metal pool and control rod drive (CRD), to elucidate the lower head (LH) failure mechanism in the 1F accident. The results demonstrated that depending on the condition of the melt pool formed in the lower plenum, a factor of LH boundary failure was due to eutectic melting. In addition, the state related to the CRD structure of 1F unit 2 were estimated.
山下 拓哉; 間所 寛; 佐藤 一憲
Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, 8(2), p.021701_1 - 021701_13, 2022/04
Understanding the final distribution of core materials and their characteristics is important for decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F). Such characteristics depend on the accident progression in each unit. However, boiling water reactor accident progression involves great uncertainty. This uncertainty, which was clarified by MAAP-MELCOR Crosswalk, cannot be resolved with existing knowledge and was thus addressed in this work through core material melting and relocation (CMMR) tests. For the test bundle, ZrO pellets were installed instead of UO pellets. A plasma heating system was used for the tests. In the CMMR-4 test, useful information was obtained on the core state just before slumping. The presence of macroscopic gas permeability of the core approaching ceramic fuel melting was confirmed, and the fuel columns remained standing, suggesting that the collapse of fuel columns, which is likely in the reactor condition, would not allow effective relocation of the hottest fuel away from the bottom of the core. This information will help us comprehend core degradation in boiling water reactors, similar to those in 1F. In addition, useful information on abrasive water suspension jet (AWSJ) cutting for debris-containing boride was obtained in the process of dismantling the test bundle. When the mixing debris that contains oxide, metal, and boride material is cut, AWSJ may be repelled by the boride in the debris, which may cut unexpected parts, thus generating a large amount of waste in cutting the boride part in the targeted debris. This information will help the decommissioning of 1F.
Pshenichnikov, A.; 柴田 裕樹; 山下 拓哉; 永江 勇二; 倉田 正輝
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 59(3), p.267 - 291, 2022/03
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：32.32(Nuclear Science & Technology)The paper reviews the results of the JAEA and some International activities over the last ten years of research on the understanding of the core components melting and debris formation in boiling water reactors.
間所 寛; 山下 拓哉; 佐藤 一憲; Gaus-Liu, X.*; Cron, T.*; Fluhrer, B.*; St
ngle, R.*; Wenz, T.*; Vervoortz, M.*; 溝上 伸也
Proceedings of 19th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-19) (Internet), 16 Pages, 2022/03
Debris and molten pool behavior in the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) lower plenum is a key factor to determine its failure mode, which affects the initial condition of ex-vessel accident progression and the debris characteristics. These are necessary information to accomplish safe decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. After dryout of the solidified debris in the lower plenum, metallic debris is expected to melt prior to the oxide debris due to its lower melting temperature. The lower head failure is likely be originated by the local thermal load attack of a melting debris bed. Numerous experiments have been conducted in the past decades to investigate the homogeneous molten pool behavior with external cooling. However, few experiments address the transient heat transfer of solid-liquid mixture without external cooling. In order to enrich the experimental database of melting and heat transfer process of debris bed consisted of materials with different melting temperatures, LIVE-J1 experiment was conducted using ceramic and nitrate particles as high melting and low melting temperature simulant materials, respectively. The test results showed that debris height decreased gradually as the nitrate particles melt, and molten zone and thermal load on vessel wall were shifted from bottom upwards. Both conductive and convective heat transfer could take place in a solid-liquid mixture pool. These results can support the information from the internal investigations of the primary containment vessel and deepen the understanding of the accident progression.
