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NpIrisawa, Eriko; Kato, Chiaki; Yamashita, Naoki; Sano, Naruto
Zairyo To Kankyo, 71(3), p.70 - 74, 2022/03
In order to evaluate the corrosion of stainless steels used in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities, the immersion corrosion tests and polarization measurements were performed using R-SUS304ULC stainless steel in nitric acid solution containing a kind of radionuclides, Np. At temperatures above 328 K, the corrosion potential was higher than that in nitric acid solution and was near the transpassive region. From the comparison between the corrosion amount calculated by the immersion corrosion tests and the polarization resistance, the values of 
=0.018-0.025 V were obtained as a conversion factor, and the possibility of calculating the corrosion amount from the electrochemical measurement was examined.
Matsumura, Taichi; Nagaishi, Ryuji; Katakura, Junichi*; Suzuki, Masahide*
Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 166, p.108493_1 - 108493_9, 2020/01
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：12.16(Chemistry, Physical)In this work, when radiation sources of 
Cs, 
Sr and Y were assumed to be put in the front of a plain SUS304 plate as a typical material submerged in water, energy spectra of secondary photons and electrons at the front and back sides of plate were simulated with changing the thickness of plate, and spacing between the source and plate by using a Monte Carlo calculation code of PHITS. In the case of Cs gamma-ray (monochromatic 662 keV), the energy spectra at the front side was smaller than those at the back side due to the existence of plate. Then the dependence of spectra on the plate thickness was observed more clearly at the back side than at the front side. It was clearly shown how the energy spectra of photons and electrons varied with the incident radiation type, the spacing, and the thickness.
-martensite as an intermediate phase during the strain-induced transformation of SUS304 stainless steelHatano, Masaharu*; Kubota, Yoshiki*; Shobu, Takahisa; Mori, Shigeo*
Philosophical Magazine Letters, 96(6), p.220 - 227, 2016/06
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：35.46(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)We have investigated the formation process of 
'-martensite from the 
-phase induced by external strain using 
synchrotron diffraction experiments, combined with Lorentz transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution TEM observations. It is clearly demonstrated that -martensite with hexagonal symmetry appears as an intermediate structure during the plastic deformation of SUS304 stainless steel. In addition to stacking faults and dislocations, interfaces between the twin structures presumably play a key role in the formation of -martensite.
Yamamoto, Masahiro; Katayama, Hideki*; Sato, Tomonori; Tsukada, Takashi
Proceedings of 2014 Nuclear Plant Chemistry Conference (NPC 2014) (USB Flash Drive), 6 Pages, 2014/10
In the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, seawater and natural river water were poured for emergency cooling. Corrosion of materials was worried because of high chloride ion concentration from seawater. The chloride ion concentration was decreased by de-chlorination operation. However, the water was not treated in the viewpoint of microbial breeding, so that many microbes could be alive and microbially induced corrosion (MIC) was worried. So, we attempted to examine the ability of MIC occurrence by using of corrosion potential analysis. Corrosion potentials of samples rose to about 300 mV nobler than the initial values in the NB added solution. The potentials of the welded samples more easily rose than the simple plate. These potential changes are attributed to the biofilms formed on the sample surface. After about 100 days' immersion, evidence of localized corrosion was not observed. More immersion time is needed to clarify the MIC ability.
Ueno, Fumiyoshi; Nagae, Yuji*; Nemoto, Yoshiyuki; Miwa, Yukio; Takaya, Shigeru*; Hoshiya, Taiji*; Tsukada, Takashi; Aoto, Kazumi*; Ishii, Toshimitsu; Omi, Masao; et al.
JAERI-Research 2005-023, 132 Pages, 2005/09
JAERI-Research-2005-023.pdf:33.03MB
JAERI and JNC have started a JAERI-JNC joint research program in fiscal year 2003, which has been aimed for efficient progress and synergistic effect on the research activities in both Institutes. This study has been chosen one of the joint research themes because it has been our common objective in the field of structural materials of FBR and LWR components. The purpose of the study is to clarify damage mechanism of structural materials used under irradiation, and then to develop the methods for damage evaluation and detection in earlier stage of progressing process of damage. In fiscal year 2004 and 2005, micro-corrosion measurement, electrochemical corrosion test and leakage magnetic flux density measurement apparatuses were developed and equipped in two hot facilities and irradiated and unirradiated crept specimens, irradiated high purity model austenitic stainless alloys were also prepared and applied to this study. These apparatuses and specimens were used for damage evaluation, and these feasibilities for nuclear power plant materials were studied.
Hoshiya, Taiji*; Ueno, Fumiyoshi; Takaya, Shigeru*; Nagae, Yuji*; Nemoto, Yoshiyuki; Miwa, Yukio; Aoto, Kazumi*; Tsukada, Takashi; Abe, Yasuhiro*; Nakamura, Yasuo*; et al.
JAERI-Research 2004-016, 53 Pages, 2004/10
JAERI-Research-2004-016.pdf:22.07MB
Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) and Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) have started a JNC-JAERI united research program cooperatively in 2003, which has been aimed for efficient progress and synergistic effect on the research activities of both Institutes in order to lead the facing task of unification between JNC and JAERI. This study has been chosen one of the united research themes, and the purpose of it is to clarify damage mechanism of structural materials under irradiation, and then to develop the methods for damage evaluation and detection in earlier stage of progressing process of damage. In fiscal year 2003, magnetic flux density distribution (JNC) and micro-corrosion (JAERI) measurement apparatus were newly developed and equipped in Hot Facilities in two Institutes, respectively. These apparatus were designed and produced in consideration of radiation resistance and remote-controlled operation to equip in hot cells. We will start the study on neutron irradiation damage by employing the two apparatus as the next step.
The Working Team for Examination of the Sample from Core Shrouds and Primary Loop Recirculation Pipi
JAERI-Tech 2004-004, 74 Pages, 2004/02
JAERI-Tech-2004-004.pdf:31.62MB
During the 12th periodical inspection in Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station Unit-4 (BWR, 784MW) of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which has been held from September 1993 to February 1994, cracks were found at welded joints No.H4 in the core shroud middle shell. TEPCO has conducted a material examination with Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development Co. Ltd. (NFD) on the SUS304L specimen including cracks sampled from the inner surface of welded joints (H4) of the middle shell of the core shroud. The present examination has been performed with the objective to independently investigate and evaluate the materials by jointly attending the examination with NFD, receiving the final data given by the examination and providing a JAERI's own evaluation report as a third-party organization for assuring the transparency. Based on the research results described above, presence of tensile residual stress by welding and relatively high dissolved oxygen contents in core coolant, it is concluded that the cracks observed were caused by the stress corrosion cracking (SCC).
Hamada, Shozo; Fukaya, Kiyoshi*; Kato, Chiaki; Yanagihara, Takao; Doi, Masamitsu*; Kiuchi, Kiyoshi
JAERI-Tech 2001-063, 49 Pages, 2001/10
JAERI-Tech-2001-063.pdf:13.39MB
The demonstration test for the acid recovery evaporator and the dissolver used in the major equipment of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (RRP), has been carried out. The mock-up miniature equipment has been employed to it. This test had been performed from April in 1998. The total time of demonstration test using the mock-up equipment is about two and half years, which corresponds to about 20,000 hours. After that, four of the seven heat transfer tubes used in the evaporator were drawn out and the corrosion level and the mechanical properties were evaluated for one of them. As a result, intergranular corrosion was recognized in the inner surface of the heat transfer tube and the corrosion depth at the grain boundary was statistically shown to be about one grain from the inner surface. Further, no change in mechanical properties was observed and growth of intergranular cracks in the inner surface of the specimen was found after flattering test.
Maki, Akira; ; Taguchi, Katsuya; ; Shimizu, Ryo; Shoji, Kenji;
JNC TN8410 2001-012, 185 Pages, 2001/04
JNC-TN8410-2001-012.pdf:9.61MB
"The third technological meeting of Tokai Reprocessing plant (TRP)" was held in JNFL Rokkasyo site on March 14
, 2001. The technical meetings have been held in the past two times. The first one was about the present status and future plan of the TRP and second one was about safety evaluation work on the TRP. At this time, the meeting focussed on the corrosion experrience, in-service inspection technology and future maintenance plan. The report contains the proceedings, transparancies and questionnaires of the meeting are contained.
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JNC TN1400 2000-006, 68 Pages, 2000/07
JNC-TN1400-2000-006.pdf:2.18MB
no abstracts in English
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JNC TN9400 2000-022, 46 Pages, 2000/03
ln this report, a study on the behaviors of the magnetization induced by mechanical damages is carried out. By introducing mechanical damages to a test-piece with a tension or/and a zero, tension fatigue testing and measuring the corresponding leakage flux signal, natural magnetization change is proved and found increasing with the mechanical damages (viz. plastic deformation or fatigue damages) though a saturation occurs when damage gets too large. From the experimental results of fatigue testing utilizing test-pieces with a central slit, it was verified that observing the natural leakage flux density (leakage flux without applying external magnetic field) is a reasonable way to identify fatigue cracks. A feature parameter (area of the 
B hysteresis curve) of the in-situ magnetic field signal measured during the fatigue testing is proposed for predicting the fatigue damages, which is found depending on the cyclic number of the applied loading. At last, residual magnetic fields of a magnetized test-piece are also measured and found depending on the applied plastic deformation in case that the plastic strain is not too small. From these experimental results, it is found that the approach detecting natural magnetization is applicable for monitoring the damage status though it may be not efficient for a scanning inspection concerning its small signal magnitude. On the other hand, the method employing permanent magnet is robust against the environment noise but possibly not valid for the ISl of a structural component with a relative low damage level. For practical application, efforts to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed method are necessary for more testing conditions especially its suitability in a practical environment.
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JNC TN9450 2000-002, 335 Pages, 1999/10
JNC-TN9450-2000-002.pdf:21.65MB
This report summarizes the material test dala of SUS304 welded joints. Numbers of the data are as follows: [Tensile tests 71 (Post-irradiation: 39, others: 32) [Creep tests 77 (Post-irradiation: 20, others: 57) [Fatigue tests 50 (Post-irradiation: 0) [Creep-fatigue tests 14 (Post-irradiation: 0) This report consists of the printouts from "the structural material data processing system".
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JNC TN9450 2000-001, 1370 Pages, 1999/10
JNC-TN9450-2000-001.pdf:117.18MB
This report summarizes the material test data of SUS304. Numbers of the data are as follows. (1)Tensile tests 738 (Post-irradiation: 250, others: 488) (2)Creep tests 434 (Post-irradiation: 89, others: 345) (3)Fatigue tests 612 (Post-irradiation: 60, others: 552) (4)Creep-fatigue tests 200 (Post-irradiation: 40, others: 160) This report consists of the printouts from "the structural material data processing system".
Watanabe, Ryuzo*; *
PNC TJ9601 94-003, 87 Pages, 1994/03
This report is the PNC contract research for fiscal year of 1993 titled "Formation of Ti/SUS/Mo graded layer by slurry dipping." Fuel sheath material for FBR is used under a severe enviroment. The life of conventionally used SUS316 is known to be only two years. The development of long-life core material having high temperature strength, radiation resistance and anti-corrosion property is now essential. To create a super-long-life core materials for FBR it seems promising to employ the concept of functionally gradient material, in which these different materials are configurated with grading : as base material is used SUS316 stainless steel, the inner wall is made of Ti for the radiation resistant and anti-corrosion property with graded intermediate layers towards the base metal and the outer shell is the graded Mo layer for the corrosion resistance against liquid sodium. The shape of the core tube is a long cylindrical tube and its dimensions are 8.5mm in outer diameter, about 2m in length, shell thickness is 0.5mm and the thickness of the gradient layer is about 0.1mm. However, we have not yet acquired sufficient techniques to realize such shape and dimmensions, and the investigation is planned to get basic informations on the processing of the core materials with graded structures. Slurry dipping has been employed for forming a graded layer on curved inner and outer surfaces. And it is indispensable that the graded layers have showed sufficient thermal-stress relief function, as well as good bonding capability. In this year (FY 1993), the formation of the graded inner layer of Ti/SUS316 by slurry dipping was investigated. The formation procedure is briefly mentioned here as follows. Cylindrical green compacts of SUS304 stainless steel powder was prepared by die compaction and CIP as a substrate for slurry dipping. A coarse Ti powder was suspended in ethanol and milled by tumbler ball mill to get a slurry having an appropriate viscosity for dipping. The ...
