Gamma-ray spectroscopy with a CeBr scintillator under intense -ray fields for nuclear decommissioning

Kaburagi, Masaaki; Shimazoe, Kenji*; Kato, Masahiro*; Kurosawa, Tadahiro*; Kamada, Kei*; Kim, K. J.*; Yoshino, Masao*; Shoji, Yasuhiro*; Yoshikawa, Akira*; Takahashi, Hiroyuki*; et al.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 988, p.164900_1 - 164900_8, 2021/02

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164900

An increasing number of nuclear facilities have been decommissioned worldwide following the 2011 accident of the TEPCO' Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. During the decommissioning, radioactive materials have to be retrieved under proper management. In this study, a small cubic CeBr spectrometer with dimensions of 5 mm 5 mm 5 mm was manufactured to perform -ray spectroscopy under intense -ray fields. Furthermore, thanks to a fast digital process unit and a customized photomultiplier, the device could perform -ray spectroscopy at dose rates of over 1 Sv/h. The energy resolution (FWHM) at 662 keV ranged from 4.4% at 22 mSv/h to 5.2% at 1407 mSv/h for a Cs radiation field. Correspondingly, at 1333 keV, it ranged from 3.1% at 26 mSv/h to 4.2% at 2221 mSv/h for a Co radiation field, which suggested to realize -ray assessment of Cs, Cs, Co, and Eu at dose rates of over 1 Sv/h.

Field test around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant site using improved Ce:Gd(Al,Ga)O scintillator Compton camera mounted on an unmanned helicopter

Shikaze, Yoshiaki; Nishizawa, Yukiyasu; Sanada, Yukihisa; Torii, Tatsuo; Jiang, J.*; Shimazoe, Kenji*; Takahashi, Hiroyuki*; Yoshino, Masao*; Ito, Shigeki*; Endo, Takanori*; et al.

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 53(12), p.1907 - 1918, 2016/12

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2016.1185980

The Compton camera was improved for use with the unmanned helicopter. Increase of the scintillator array from 44 to 88 and expanse of the distance between the two layers contributed to the improvements of detection efficiency and angular resolution, respectively. Measurements were performed over the riverbed of the Ukedo river of Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture. By programming of flight path and speed, the areas of 65 m 60 m and 65 m 180 m were measured during about 20 and 30 minutes, respectively. By the analysis the air dose rate maps at 1 m height were obtained precisely with the angular resolution corresponding to the position resolution of about 10 m from 10 m height. Hovering flights were executed over the hot spot areas for 10-20 minutes at 5-20 m height. By using the reconstruction software the -ray images including the hot spots were obtained with the angular resolution same as that evaluated in the laboratory (about 10).

Alignment of cavities and magnets at J-PARC linac

Morishita, Takatoshi; Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Ito, Takashi; Ueno, Akira; Okawa, Tomohiro; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Ikegami, Masanori*; Naito, Fujio*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; et al.

Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (IWAA 2008) (Internet), 6 Pages, 2008/02

http://www-conf.kek.jp/past/iwaa08/papers/THP2-05.pdf

http://www-conf.kek.jp/past/iwaa08/presents/THP2-05_poster.pdf

It has been widely accepted that an accurate alignment is essential to achieve high beam quality and highly stable operation increasingly demanded in recent particle accelerators. The J-PARC linac components are finely aligned based on the precise survey network, where we have emphasized on attaining the smoothness between adjacent elements. A floor elevation of the accelerator tunnel has been periodically measured since the completion of the linac building to correct the error by the settlement. The alignment of the linac components have been finished at Sep. 2006 and the beam commissioning has been started at Nov. 2006. After a coarse adjustment of the RF phase and amplitude, nearly complete beam transmission was easily established without using steering magnet. This successful beam transport proves the validity of the alignment strategy and the accurateness of the alignment procedure.

Transportation of the DTL/SDTL for the J-PARC

Ito, Takashi; Asano, Hiroyuki; Morishita, Takatoshi; Yamazaki, Yoshishige; Naito, Fujio*; Takasaki, Eiichi*; Yoshino, Kazuo*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; Kato, Takao*; Kabeya, Zenzaburo*; et al.

Proceedings of 23rd International Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC 2006) (CD-ROM), p.782 - 784, 2007/00

Three DTL tanks and 32 SDTL tanks for the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) were assembled at KEK site. After the assembling, the high-power conditioning of the DTL1 and 12 SDTL tanks and the beam acceleration test for the DTL1 ware carried out. And then all the DTL and SDTL tanks have to be transported form KEK to JAEA. In order to confirm the effect of the transportation to the drift tube alignment, we measured the displacement of the drift tube positions before and after the transportation by using a prototype cavity. As a result of the test, the measured displacement of the drift tubes by the transportation was less than 0.02mm which is consistent in the measurement accuracy. Based on this result, all the DTL and SDTL tanks were transported form KEK to JAEA.

An Alignment of J-PARC linac

Morishita, Takatoshi; Ao, Hiroyuki; Ito, Takashi; Ueno, Akira; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Ikegami, Masanori*; Kubota, Chikashi*; Takasaki, Eiichi*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; Naito, Fujio*; et al.

Proceedings of 2nd Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan and 30th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.266 - 268, 2005/07

J-PARC linear accelerator components are now being installed in the accelerator tunnel. Markings are placed on the floor, which act as a reference for the initial alignment at the installation. A planned and ongoing alignment schemes for the installation of linac components and watching the long term motion of the building are described.

Numerical Simulation in Order to Identify Hydrological Properties of Sedimentary Rock

Nomoto, Kosuke*; Matsui, Mikio*; Inoue, Hiroyuki*; Yoshino, Naoto; Karasaki, Kenji*; Ito, Kazumasa*

JNC TJ8400 2005-005, 94 Pages, 2005/02

JNC-TJ8400-2005-005.pdf:7.92MB

In the safety assessment at geological disposal of High Level Nuclear Waste, it is necessary to understand several properties like hydrological, geological and chemical properties of the disposal site by site investigations. The investigation results should project to the ground water flow modeling, migration modeling and the parameter assignment of these models. Japan Nuclear cycle Development Institute is going to carry out two Underground Research Laboratory plans in order to push on with the project and help to make up the safety criteria of the geological disposal. Horonobe is one area of these plans. In Horonobe, following properties were identified./-There are saline and fresh water./-There is dissolved gas in the underground water./-The underground of some area has high water pressure./In this study, the analysis considering above properties were carried out for understanding of hydrological properties in sedimentary rock. In addition, the affection to the water flow and migration influenced by the results were examined.

An Alignment of J-PARC linac

Morishita, Takatoshi; Ao, Hiroyuki; Ito, Takashi; Ueno, Akira; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Ikegami, Masanori*; Kubota, Chikashi*; Naito, Fujio*; Takasaki, Eiichi*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; et al.

Proceedings of 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC '05) (CD-ROM), p.2851 - 2853, 2005/00

In J-PARC linac, a precise alignment of accelerator components is essential for high quality beam acceleration. Markings have been placed on the floor, which act as a reference for the initial alignment at the installation. For a straight line alignment, the wire position sensor is placed on the offset position with respect to the beam center by a target holder. The hydrostatic levering system is used for watching the floor elevation over the long period.

An Alignment system of J-PARC linac

Morishita, Takatoshi; Ao, Hiroyuki; Ito, Takashi; Ueno, Akira; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Ikegami, Masanori*; Kubota, Chikashi*; Takasaki, Eiichi*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; Naito, Fujio*; et al.

Proceedings of 1st Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan and 29th Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan, p.671 - 673, 2004/08

A precise alignment of accelerator components is essential for the J-PARC linear accelerator. The wire position sensor is applied to measure the accelerator component positioning and the ground motion of the building is measured by the hydrostatic leveling sensors. In this paper, the scheme of the alignment system is presented.

A Study and Modeling about Ground Water Flow Considering the Properties of Sedimentary Soft Rock

Inoue, Hiroyuki*; Ishiguro, Takeshi*; Kuji, Masayoshi*; Yoshino, Naoto

JNC TJ8400 2004-013, 137 Pages, 2004/02

JNC-TJ8400-2004-013.pdf:22.48MB

In this paper, authors examined the properties of sedimentary soft rock which might affect the groundwater flow rate and flow path in the sedimentary soft rock. As a general sample of sedimentary soft rock, we focused on the rock of HORONOBE area in HOKKAIDO prefecture. Then, following four issues were examined. 1) a study of numerical flow rate analysis considering the difference of water density in the sedimentary soft rock. 2) the hydro-geological modeling of HORONOBE area and a fundamental study of water pressure and saline density in HORONOBE area. 3) a fundamental study of numerical coupling analysis about groundwater flow rate ,the difference of underground temperature, rock pressure and deformation. 4) a study about best performance of numerical flow rate analysis program. As a result, hydro-geological modeling of HORONOBE area using the information before 2002 as input data was succeeded by using the basic geological model which was made by IMAI et al,. And the applicability of TOUGH2 program as analysis method considering the density difference of underground water in sedimentary soft rock was verified. Then, we will be able to simulate underground flow considering the difference of saline density and specific water pressure in HORONOBE area. In addition, the applicability of TOUGH-FLAC program in which TOUGH2 was coupled with FLAC3D and consider rock pressure and deformation was verified. The best numerical performance of TOUGH2 program was studied in order to deal with large scale simulations. Then, it was shown that efficient method of the best numerical performance about TOUGH2 was possible.

Performance study of multi cubic high energy -ray spectrometric system for the decommissioning of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Kaburagi, Masaaki; Shimazoe, Kenji*; Otaka, Yutaka*; Uenomachi, Mizuki*; Kamada, Kei*; Kim, K. J.*; Yoshino, Masao*; Shoji, Yasuhiro*; Yoshikawa, Akira*; Takahashi, Hiroyuki*; et al.

no journal, , 

The retrieval of the nuclear fuel debris, which is the substance including melted nuclear fuel and structural materials, will be started from fiscal 2021. Then, as a non-destructive analysis technology of the nuclear fuel debris, a -ray spectroscopy system is being developed to measure high energy rays due to Eu and nuclear reactions under high dose rate, which was composed of a CeBr cubic, photomultiplier tube, and fast signal processing unit. This presentation reports that the exposure study of the detector system was performed for a Co field at the dose rates of up to 750 mSv/h, and the detector response was investigated at each dose rate.