プルトニウム廃棄物処理開発施設 第2難燃物焼却工程設備の更新

山下 健仁; 牧 翔太; 横須賀 一裕; 福井 雅裕; 家村 圭輔

JAEA-Technology 2023-023, 97 Pages, 2024/03

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プルトニウム廃棄物処理開発施設第2難燃物焼却室に設置されている第2難燃物焼却工程設備は、混合酸化物燃料製造等に伴い発生する放射性固体廃棄物のうち塩化ビニル(主にビニルバッグ)、RI用ゴム手袋等の難燃性廃棄物の減容処理技術開発を目的に2002年から焼却処理実証運転を行ってきた。しかし、難燃性廃棄物を処理する際に発生する塩化水素等による設備内部の腐食が進むとともに、焼却炉内壁の耐火物に亀裂の発生、進展が確認されたため、2018年から2022年に運転停止期間を設け、焼却炉等の更新を行った。本設備は廃棄物供給工程、焼却工程、廃ガス処理工程、灰取出工程により構成されており、このうち2020年3月から2021年3月にかけて廃ガス処理工程のスプレー塔の更新を、2021年1月から2022年2月にかけて焼却工程の焼却炉の更新を実施した。また、更新機器の腐食・劣化状況調査のため既設機器の撤去・解体作業中に焼却炉、スプレー塔から試料採取を行い、走査型電子顕微鏡/X線マイクロアナライザーによる観察とX線回折による分析を行った。本報告書ではスプレー塔・焼却炉の撤去・解体に係るグリーンハウスの設営方法、更新手順、更新対象機器の腐食・劣化状況の分析結果について報告する。

Ionic radii in fluorites

Vauchy, R.; 廣岡 瞬; 村上 龍敏

Materialia, 32, p.101934_1 - 101934_12, 2023/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2023.101934

The construction of the fluorite unit-cell from the ionic radii of the constitutive species is proposed with the use of our hybrid model, considering flexible anion and cation radii. 27 binary and stoichiometric compounds crystallizing in this structure were investigated to find a correlation between the anion's radius as a function of the cation's size.

X-ray free electron laser observation of ultrafast lattice behaviour under femtosecond laser-driven shock compression in iron

佐野 智一*; 松田 智己*; 廣瀬 明夫*; 寺井 智之*; 掛下 智之*; 犬伏 雄一*; 佐藤 孝弘*; 矢橋 牧名*; 菖蒲 敬久; 他22名*

Scientific Reports (Internet), 13, p.13796_1 - 13796_10, 2023/08

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40283-6

Over the past century, understanding the nature of shock compression of condensed matter has been a major topic. About 20 years ago, a femtosecond laser emerged as a new shock-driver. Unlike conventional shock waves, a femtosecond laser driven shock wave creates unique microstructures in materials. Therefore, the properties of this shock wave may be different from those of conventional shock waves. However, the lattice behaviour under femtosecond laser-driven shock compression has never been elucidated. Here we report the ultrafast lattice behaviour in iron shocked by direct irradiation of a femtosecond laser pulse, diagnosed using X-ray free electron laser diffraction. We found that the initial compression state caused by the femtosecond laser driven shock wave is the same as that caused by conventional shock waves. We also found, for the first time experimentally, the temporal deviation of peaks of stress and strain waves predicted theoretically. Furthermore, the existence of a plastic wave peak between the stress and strain wave peaks is a new finding that has not been predicted even theoretically. Our findings will open up new avenues for designing novel materials that combine strength and toughness in a trade-off relationship.

The Investigations of the -wave states combining quark model and lattice QCD in the coupled channel framework

Yang, Z.*; Wang, G.-J.*; Wu, J.-J.*; 岡 眞; Zhu, S.-L.*

Journal of High Energy Physics (Internet), 2023(1), p.058_1 - 058_19, 2023/01

https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2023)058

ハミルトニアン有効理論にクォーク模型、クォークペア生成、相互作用の情報を含むベアな状態と散乱状態の結合を取り入れた形式を用いて、しきい値近傍の波の4個の状態のスペクトルを研究した。

Free-surface flow simulations with floating objects using lattice Boltzmann method

渡辺 勢也*; 河原 淳*; 青木 尊之*; 杉原 健太; 高瀬 慎介*; 森口 周二*; 橋本 博公*

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 17(1), p.2211143_1 - 2211143_23, 2023/00

https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2023.2211143

津波氾濫や大雨の斜面災害では、多くの浮遊物や流木、丸太などが流れに含まれる。剛体衝突による構造物の被害は、水圧による被害よりも深刻である。浮遊物体を含む自由表面流れを研究するためには、大規模計算が可能で高性能な自由表面流のシミュレーションコードの開発が必要となる。本研究ではキュムラント格子ボルツマン法と粒子ベースの剛体シミュレーションを組み合わせた単相自由表面モデルを提案する。剛体間の接触相互作用は個別要素法で計算される。解析精度の向上と計算の高速化のために8分木ベースの局所細分化格子法を導入し、自由表面や固体表面近傍には高解像度の格子を割り当てた。提案モデルの精度検証のために、八戸工業大学と神戸大学の15m水槽と70m水槽で2種類の津波実験を行った。シミュレーションの結果、漂流速度、捕捉木片数、積層角について実験と良い一致を示した。

Effect of fault activation on the hydraulic connectivity of faults in mudstone

大野 宏和; 石井 英一

Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 31, p.100317_1 - 100317_9, 2022/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2022.100317

An injection test and repeated packer tests were performed for a fault in siliceous mudstone in order to activate the fault and to investigate the change in hydraulic connectivity of the fault before and after the fault activation. The injection test successfully induced a remarkable dilational-shear failure within the fault. Pressure changes measured by the repeated packer tests were analyzed before and after the failure, where the log-log plots of pressure derivatives changed after the failure from an upward-trend indicating a limited extent of flow-paths to a horizontal trend suggesting well-connected flow-paths. After the borehole had been open for six weeks, the pressure derivatives were restored to an upward trend. This reversible change in pressure derivatives means that the hydraulic connectivity of the fault temporarily increased during and just after the injection but fault activation did not irreversibly affect the initially low hydraulic connectivity of the fault. This transition in the hydraulic connectivity of the fault is also consisted with the variation of fluid pressure monitored at a neighboring observation hole. We propose that analyzing the pressure derivatives obtained by repeated packer tests before and after the injection in a single borehole is effective to assess the sensitivity of hydraulic disconnectivity of faults to fault activation, which is crucial information for safety assessment of radioactive waste disposal.

Quantum critical spin-liquid-like behavior in the = quasikagome-lattice compound CeRhPdSn investigated using muon spin relaxation and neutron scattering

Tripathi, R.*; Adroja, D. T.*; Ritter, C.*; Sharma, S.*; Yang, C.*; Hillier, A. D.*; Koza, M. M.*; Demmel, F.*; Sundaresan, A.*; Langridge, S.*; et al.

Physical Review B, 106(6), p.064436_1 - 064436_17, 2022/08

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.064436

We present the results of muon spin relaxation (SR) and neutron scattering measurements on the Ce-based quasikagome lattice CeRhPdSn ( = 0.1 to 0.75). Our SR results reveal the absence of both static long-range magnetic order and spin freezing down to 0.05 K in the = 0.1 sample, which is consistent with neutron scattering results. The weak temperature-dependent plateaus of the dynamic spin fluctuations below 0.2 K in zero field together with its longitudinal-field (LF) dependence indicate the presence of dynamic spin fluctuations persisting even at 0.05 K without static magnetic order. We argue that such a behavior for = 0.1 can be attributed to a metallic spin-liquid-like ground state near the quantum critical point in the frustrated Kondo lattice. The LF-SR study suggests that the out of kagome plane spin fluctuations are responsible for the spin-liquid behavior.

A Status of experimental program to achieve in-vessel retention during core disruptive accidents of sodium-cooled fast reactors

神山 健司; 松場 賢一; 加藤 慎也; 今泉 悠也; Mukhamedov, N.*; Akayev, A.*; Pakhnits, A.*; Vurim, A.*; Baklanov, V.*

Proceedings of International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles; Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future (FR22) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2022/04

To achieve in-vessel retention for mitigating the consequences of core disruptive accidents (CDAs) of sodium-cooled fast reactors, controlled material relocation (CMR) has been proposed as an effective safety concept. CMR is not only aiming at eliminating the potential for exceeding prompt criticality events that affect the integrity of the reactor vessel, but also enhancing the potential for the in-vessel cooling of degraded core materials during CDAs. Based on this concept several design measures have been studied, and, to evaluate their effectiveness, experimental evidences to show relocation of molten-core material were required. With this background, a series of experimental program called EAGLE (Experimental Acquisition of Generalized Logic to Eliminate re-criticalities) has been carried out collaboratively over 20 years between Japan Atomic Energy Agency and National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC/RK) using an out-of-pile and in-pile test facilities of NNC/RK. The EAGLE program is divided into three phases, they are called EAGLE-1, EAGLE-2 and EAGLE-3, to cover whole phase after core-melting begins. The subject for EAGLE-1 and the first half of EAGLE-2 is CMR in the early phase of CDA in which the core melting progresses rapidly driven by positive reactivity insertions. The subject for the latter half of EAGLE-2 and whole EAGLE-3 is CMR in the later phase of CDA in which the gradual core melting by decay heat and relocation and cooling of degraded core materials occurs. In the paper, the major achievement of the EAGLE program and future plans are presented.

Direct temperature measurement for lamp-based heating device

墨田 岳大; 須藤 彩子; 高野 公秀; 池田 篤史

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials; Methods (Internet), 2(1), p.50 - 54, 2022/02

https://doi.org/10.1080/27660400.2022.2035097

Despite a wide variety of its practical applications, handiness, and cost-effectiveness, the advance of lamp-based heating device is obstructed by one technical difficulty in measuring the temperature on a heated material. This difficulty originates in the combination of polychromatic light source and a radiation thermometer that determines temperature from radiation (i.e. light). A new system developed in this study overcomes this intrinsic difficulty by measuring exclusively the radiation from the heated material, allowing us to perform the direct and measurement of temperature in a light-based heating device (an arc image furnace). Test measurements demonstrated the reliability of temperature measurement using the developed system as well as its promising potential for the determination of emissivity at high temperature particularly in the infrared region.

Tree cutting approach for domain partitioning on forest-of-octrees-based block-structured static adaptive mesh refinement with lattice Boltzmann method

長谷川 雄太; 青木 尊之*; 小林 宏充*; 井戸村 泰宏; 小野寺 直幸

Parallel Computing, 108, p.102851_1 - 102851_12, 2021/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2021.102851

GPUスーパコンピュータに対して格子ボルツマン法(LBM: lattice Botltzmann method)およびforest-of-octreesに基づくブロック構造型の局所細分化格子(LMR: local mesh refinement)を用いた空力解析コードを実装し、その性能を評価した。性能評価の結果、従来の空間充填曲線(SFC; space-filling curve)に基づく領域分割アルゴリズムでは、本空力解析において袖領域通信のコストが過大となることがわかった。領域分割の改善手法として本稿では挿し木法を提案し、領域分割の局所性とトポロジーを改善し、従来のSFCに基づく手法に比べて通信コストを1/31/4に削減した。強スケーリング測定では、最大で1.82倍の高速化を示し、128GPUで2207MLUPS(mega-lattice update per second)の性能を達成した。弱スケーリング測定では、8128GPUで93.4%の並列化効率を示し、最大規模の128GPU計算では44.73億格子点を用いて9620MLUPSの性能を達成した。