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Sugihara, Kozo
JAEA-Review 2022-006, 74 Pages, 2022/05
JAEA-Review-2022-006.pdf:7.09MB
As a trial to show the history of Tono Mine, this report summarizes the abstracts of literature, which is hit in the JAEA Originated Papers Searching System (JOPSS) referred with a word of "Tono Mine", in time order. 214 JAEA Reports, 54 papers and 9 oral presentations have been hit with free-word search using a word of "Tono Mine" in the JOPSS on February 1st, 2022. This report summarizes the abstracts of JAEA Reports mainly, as JAEA Reports are prepared in each activity in the mine. However there are few JAEA Reports of uranium exploration, some reports can be found out in the JOPSS and describe the history of uranium exploration activities in and around the Tono Mine. Histories of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation also contain some descriptions and chronological tables relating to the Tono Mine. The extracts of these reports and histories are shown in this report as the history of Tono Mine during the time of uranium exploration.
Tsurudome, Koji; Suzuki, Hajime; Aoki, Katsunori
JAEA-Review 2021-031, 186 Pages, 2021/12
JAEA-Review-2021-031.pdf:11.79MB
Tono Geoscience Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been conducting mine closure activities at Tono Mine based on "Plan for closure activities of the Tono Mine" since FY2010. The closure activities of the Tono Mine are carried out in accordance with the Mining Act, the Mine Safety Act and the Industrial Safety and Health Act. In particular, in order to examine the technologies applied to the closure activities of the Tono mine, also the surrounding environmental monitoring, "Technical Committee on Mine Closure Activities of the Tono Mine" was organized at Tono Geoscience Center in FY2013 and the results in the previous fiscal year and the plan for the current fiscal year have been reported and discussed at the annual meeting. As a result, it has been confirmed that the closure activities are making progress as planned and that the environment around the mine meets the legally required standards from the monitoring results. This document is a compilation of meeting materials of all eight committee meetings held between FY2013 and FY2019.
Hama, Katsuhiro; Taniguchi, Naoki; Honda, Akira
JNC TN7430 2000-002, 25 Pages, 2001/01
JNC-TN7430-2000-002.pdf:3.32MB
The burial tests of mild steel and pure titanium were performed in a gallery at Tono mine to assess the corrosion resistance of these materials under goundwater environment. Specimens were placed in the container and immersed into groundwater. After the immersion period, the apperance of the surface of these specimens were observed. The corrosion product of mild steel specimen was analysed by various methods. The average corrosion rate of mild steel for 10 years was assessed by the measurement of the weight loss of carbon steel specimen. The results of the test were summerised as follows : (1)The average corrosion rate of mild steel for 10 years was assessed to be 4.36 
10
mm/y by the weight loss of the specimen. (2)The corrosion product consists of outer porous substance and inner tight corrosion product film. The former contains ferric oxide such as goethite and the latter contains ferrous oxide such as magnetite. (3)The evidence of the initiation of localised corrosion was not observed on the titanium specimens.
Hama, Katsuhiro; Mitsui, Seiichiro; Aoki, Rieko*; Hirose, Ikuro
JNC TN7430 2000-001, 47 Pages, 2000/12
JNC-TN7430-2000-001.pdf:4.09MB
Long-term immersion tests of glass material at ambient temperature (about 18 
C) for 10 years were performed in a gallery at the Tono mine in Japan, in order to assess durability of glass matelial contacted with natural groundwater. The gallery was constructed at a depth of 130 m below ground surface in the Toki Granite. Monolithic glass blocks with dimensions of 10 10 10 mm (cubic type) and of 25 mm in diameter and 8 mm in thickness (disk type: The wall of sample was covered by stainless steel of 1 mm thick.) were used for the tests. Both type of samples with and without clay were put in Teflon vessels, which have small holes on the wall, and inserted into boreholes excavated at the gallery floor. In addition to the immersion tests, static leaching test with cubic type glass and ground water was also performed at the gallery. The samples of each test were collected in time intervals of 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and 10 years and were subjected to weight loss measurement and several surface analyses. The results were as follows: (1)Weight losses of each sample were proportional to time intervals. This result is attributable to constant dissolved silica concentration in the ground water during tests. (2)The weight losses of disk type glass were slightly larger than those of cubic type glass. This result is attributable to elemental release from internal cracks of disk type glass, instead of effect of stainless steel on the glass dissolution. (3)The weight losses for the tests with clay were slightly smaller than those for tests without clay. This result is attributable to higher concentration of dissolved silica in pore water of clay.
Koide, Kaoru; Nakano, Katsushi; Takeuchi, Shinji; Hama, Katsuhiro; ; Ikeda, Koki;
JNC TN7400 2000-014, 83 Pages, 2000/11
JNC-TN7400-2000-014.pdf:4.84MB
The Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) has been conducting a wide range of geoscientific research in order to build a firm scientific and technological basis for the research and development of geological disposal. One of the major components of the ongoing geoscientific research programme is the Regional Hydrogeological Study (RHS) project in the Tono region, central Japan. The main goal of the RHS project is to develop and demonstrate surface-based investigation methodologies to characterize geological environments at a regional scale in Japan. The RHS project was initiated in 1992. The first five years of the project were devoted mainly to develop methodologies and techniques for deep borehole investigations in crystalline rock in Japan. Investigations to verify the performance of new instruments and methods for borehole drilling, hydraulic testing and groundwater sampling were conducted. In the last four years, surface-based investigations and a stepwise development of models of the geological environment have been carried out. To date, remote sensing, geological mapping, airborne and ground geophysical investigations, and measurements in eleven deep boreholes have been carried out. Hydro monitorring is continuing in these boreholes. Important results that have been obtained from these investigations include multi-disciplinaly information about the heterogeneity of lithology and hydraulic, geochemical and rock mechanical properties of the granitic rock, and evolution of the groundwater geochemistry. Technical knowledge and experience have been accumulated, which allow application of the methodologies and techniques to characterize the geological environment in crystalline rock. The results from these R%D activities were used as prime inputs for the H12 report that JNC submitted to the Japanese Government in l999. Results from such R&D is also acknowledged by other geoscientific studies in general. JNC will synthesize the results from R&D ...
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JNC TY7430 2000-001, 57 Pages, 2000/03
JNC-TY7430-2000-001.pdf:2.17MB
no abstracts in English
Toyama, Shigeyuki*; Wakamatsu, Hisanori; Okazaki, Hikoya
JNC TJ7440 2000-018, 55 Pages, 2000/03
JNC-TJ7440-2000-018.pdf:9.57MB
no abstracts in English
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JNC TJ7420 2000-001, 14 Pages, 2000/02
JNC-TJ7420-2000-001.pdf:0.27MB
no abstracts in English
Sato, Toshinori; Taniguchi, Wataru; Fujita, Tomoo; Hasegawa, Hiroshi
JNC TN7400 99-011, 36 Pages, 1999/12
In order to understand the general thermal and mechanical properties of rock masses and initial stress of rock at depth, data were compiled from the published literature in Japan and collected from investigations carried out at Kamaishi mine and Tono mine. Statistical examinations derived the ranges, means and medians of the mechanical properties for the different rock types. It was confirmed that the correlations between the mechanical properties were in agreement with correlations determined previously in other similar surveys. The unconfined compressive strength of Neogene sedimentary rocks showed a tendency to increase with increasing depth (
500 m). An examination of the measured initial stress data collected through literature surveys showed that the vertical stress can be approximated by the extent of gravitational loading at a particular point. There is an approximately linear relationship between the average stress in a horizontal plane and the depth. The lateral pressure coefficient tends to have a high value and large range at shallow depths, but tends towards 
1 with increasing depth.
Ijiri, Yuji; ; *; Watari, Shingo; K.E.Web*; *; *
JNC TN8400 99-092, 91 Pages, 1999/11
JNC has been developed the performance assessment approaches for both fractured rock and porous rock. An equivalent continuum model is incorporated for solving the radionuclide migration in porous rock, while a discrete fracture network model is incorporated for solving the radionuclide migration in fractured rock (see more detail in Sawada et al. [1999]). This report describes the methodology, the data and the results of the performance assessment of porous rock. From the results of radionuclide migration analyses that were based on the hydrogeological properties obtained from the Neogene sedimentaly rock at the Tono mine, it was found that the release rate of selenium-79 and cesium-135 are dominant in porous rock. The sensitivity analyses using one-dimensional porous model revealed that hydraulic conductivity has more influences on the results than porosity does. In addition, it was found that smaller distribution coefficients of sandstone yield higher release rate than mudstone and tuff, and smaller distribution coefficients of saline water conditions yield higher release rate than fresh water conditions. The radionuclide migration in Neogene sedimentaly rock, where flow in rock matrix as well as in fractures are significant, was evaluated by superposing the results of porous model and fracture model. Since fracture model tends to yield more conservative results than porous model, it is obvious that the performance of Neogene sedimentary rock can be conservatively assessed by fracture model alone. The nuclide migration analyses performed in this report were based on the hydrogeological properties obtained at the depth between 20 meters and 200 meters frrom the ground surface. Therefore, it should be noted that the release rate at the depth of a future repository in Neogene sedimentary rock, 500 m, will be smaller than that shown in this report due to peemeability decrease from 200 m to 500 m.
Itamoto, Masaharu*; Tanaka, Masahiro*; Tanno, Takeo*
PNC TJ7592 98-001, 166 Pages, 1998/03
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Matsuoka, Kiyoyuki*; Sakurai, Yutaka*
PNC TJ7586 98-002, 63 Pages, 1998/02
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Imai, Hisashi*; Nishida, Kaoru*; *; Amemiya, Kiyoshi*; Lin, Weiren*
PNC TJ1449 98-004, 231 Pages, 1998/02
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Itamoto, Masaharu*; *; Tanaka, Masahiro*
PNC TJ7592 96-001, 164 Pages, 1996/03
no abstracts in English