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Sugawara, Takanori; Takei, Hayanori; Tsujimoto, Kazufumi
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 125, p.242 - 248, 2019/03
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：21.58(Nuclear Science & Technology)To realize the feasible accelerator-driven system (ADS) concept, the investigations for the reliable accelerator and conceptual plant design considering safety issues were performed. As the reliable accelerator concept, the double-accelerator concept was proposed to reduce the beam-trip frequency. The estimated beam-trip frequency with the double-accelerator concept using the J-PARC LINAC operation data showed that the beam-trip frequency was significantly improved with the comparison of the single accelerator result. The basic investigation of the primary reactor auxiliary coolant system (PRACS) was performed for the safety design of the LBE cooled ADS. The concept which the PRACS heat exchanger was integrated to the steam generator was proposed and the transient analysis in the loss of heat sink accident was carried out. The result presented that the decay heat removal was appropriate when the operation of the PRACS succeeded.
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：17 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.
Inoue, Takashi; Kashiwagi, Mieko; Taniguchi, Masaki; Dairaku, Masayuki; Hanada, Masaya; Watanabe, Kazuhiro; Sakamoto, Keishi
Nuclear Fusion, 46(6), p.S379 - S385, 2006/06
Times Cited Count：35 Percentile：74.54(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)The JAERI MeV accelerator has been designed extrapolating vacuum insulation design guidelines (the clump theory and Paschen law) to Mega Volt and long vacuum gap. Reduction of electric field concentration at triple junction by a large stress ring was effective to prevent flashover along insulator surface. By the vacuum insulation technology above, the accelerator sustained 1 MV for 8,500 s continuously. Strong enhancement of negative ion surface production has been attained by stopping vacuum leaks due to SF
permeation through Viton O rings and a damage of port by backstream ions, followed by increase of the H
ion current density without saturation. Operating the KAMABOKO source with high power arc discharge (
40 kW), H ion beams of 146 A/m
(total ion current: 0.2 A) have been obtained stably at the beam energy of 836 keV (pulse length: 
0.2 s). Bremsstrahlung generation in the accelerator is also estimated from EGS4 analysis, and then discussion on the breakdown possibility follows.
Oigawa, Hiroyuki
Genshikaku Kenkyu, 47(6), p.39 - 52, 2003/03
Minor actinide (MA) and long-lived fission product (LLFP) keep their radiological toxicity in high level waste of nuclear fuel cycle for long period. In order to transmute such nuclides to short-lived or stable ones, the Accelerator-Driven Transmutation System (ADS) is proposed and developed. This article presents the current status of the research and development on ADS, technical issues to be solved, the experimental program under the framework of the High-Intensity Proton Accelerator Project (J-PARC), and worldwide activities.
Wakai, Eiichi; Sawai, Tomotsugu; Furuya, Kazuyuki; Naito, Akira; Aruga, Takeo; Kikuchi, Kenji; Yamashita, Shinichiro*; Onuki, Somei*; Yamamoto, Shunya; Naramoto, Hiroshi; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 307-311(Part.1), p.278 - 282, 2002/12
Times Cited Count：51 Percentile：93.7(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Kurata, Yuji; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Kikuchi, Kenji; Saito, Shigeru; Osugi, Toshitaka
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 301(1), p.28 - 34, 2002/02
Times Cited Count：52 Percentile：93.86(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 206, p.331 - 333, 1983/00
no abstracts in English
