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Sugawara, Takanori; Takei, Hayanori; Iwamoto, Hiroki; Oizumi, Akito; Nishihara, Kenji; Tsujimoto, Kazufumi
Progress in Nuclear Energy, 106, p.27 - 33, 2018/07
Times Cited Count：16 Percentile：85.18(Nuclear Science & Technology)The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has investigated an accelerator-driven system (ADS) to transmute minor actinides which will be partitioned from the high level waste. There are various inherent issues for the research and development on the ADS. The recent two activities to realize a feasible and reliable ADS concept are introduced in this paper. For the feasibility, the design of a beam window which is a boundary of the accelerator and the subcritical core, is one of the most important issues. To mitigate the design condition of the beam window, namely to reduce the proton beam current, the subcritical core concept with subcriticality adjustment rods were investigated. For the reliability, the beam-trip is the inherent and serious issue for the ADS design because it induces rapid temperature change to coolant and structures in the subcritical core. To improve the beam-trip frequencies, a double-accelerator concept was proposed and its beam-trip frequency was estimated.
Sasa, Toshinobu; Saito, Shigeru; Obayashi, Hironari; Wan, T.; Sugawara, Takanori; Kita, Satoshi*; Yamaki, Kenichi*; Yoshimoto, Hidemitsu*
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JAEA proposes the Partitioning and Transmutation Technology to reduce the environmental impact caused from high-level radioactive waste using Accelerator-driven system (ADS) which adopts lead-bismuth eutectic alloy (LBE) as a coolant for subcritical core and spallation target. To realize ADS, JAEA plans to construct the Transmutation Experimental Facility (TEF) within the framework of J-PARC project. By using TEF in J-PARC, it is planned to solve technical issues for safe application of LBE by completing the data to design LBE-cooled ADS. The 250kW LBE spallation target will be located in TEF facility to prepare material irradiation database by both proton and neutron injection in the temperature range for typical LBE-cooled ADS. Detailed design and optimization of the target as a reference target of TEF-T and various elemental technologies are investigated. The large scale LBE loops for mock up the spallation target and material corrosion studies are also manufactured and ready for various experiments. The latest status of 250kW LBE spallation target design works will be described in the presentation.
Futakawa, Masatoshi
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Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) proposes a transmutation of minor actinides (MA) by accelerator-driven systems (ADS). A lead-bismuth eutectic alloy (LBE) is used as a spallation target and a coolant of subcritical core because LBE has a good spallation neutron production performance and a chemically inert characteristic. However, the compatibility with steels is unfavourable especially for the typical structural materials such as a 316 stainless steel. To obtain the data for ADS design, JAEA plans to construct the Transmutation Experimental Facility (TEF) within the framework of the J-PARC project, which consists of two buildings, an ADS Target Test Facility (TEF-T) and a Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P). The activities to realize the TEF, a roadmap to establish the ADS transmutor and latest elemental test results for TEF construction will be introduced.
Kamide, Hideki
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Progress of Research and Development and design study on sodium cooled fast reactor in Japan is shown especially for safety. Further, activity to establish a Strategic Roadmap of the fast reactor development is introduced based on the Ministerial Meeting for the Nuclear Energy Policy held last year.
