Site-specific relaxation of peptide bond planarity induced by electrically attracted proton/deuteron observed by neutron crystallography

Chiba, Kaori*; Matsui, Takuro*; Chatake, Toshiyuki*; Ohara, Takashi; Tanaka, Ichiro*; Yutani, Katsuhide*; Niimura, Nobuo*

Protein Science, 32(10), p.e4765_1 - e4765_13, 2023/10

https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.4765

Current status of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) development, 1; Overview of ATF development conducted under the technology development project for improving nuclear safety

Yamashita, Shinichiro

Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi ATOMO, 65(4), p.233 - 237, 2023/04

https://doi.org/10.3327/jaesjb.65.4_233

In the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) of TEPCO due to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, interest in the early implementation of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) not only for many existing NPPs but also for future NPPs, which is expected to dramatically improve the safety of light water reactors, has increased globally, and research and development is currently underway in many countries around the world. In this article, an overview of domestic ATF technology development that has been carried out with the support of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry since 2015, will be introduced.

Core and safety design for France-Japan common concept on sodium-cooled fast reactor

Takano, Kazuya; Oki, Shigeo; Ozawa, Takayuki; Yamano, Hidemasa; Kubo, Shigenobu; Ogura, Masashi*; Yamada, Yumi*; Koyama, Kazuya*; Kurita, Koichi*; Costes, L.*; et al.

EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies (Internet), 8, p.35_1 - 35_9, 2022/12

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2022040

The France and Japan teams have carried out collaborative works to have common technical views regarding a sodium-cooled fast reactor concept. Japan has studied the feasibility of an enhanced high burnup low-void effect (CFV) core and fuel using oxide dispersion-strengthened steel cladding in ASTRID 600. Regarding passive shutdown capabilities, Japan team has performed a preliminary numerical analysis for ASTRID 600 using a complementary safety device, called a self-actuated shutdown system (SASS), one of the safety approaches of Japan. The mitigation measures of ASTRID 600 against a severe accident, such as a core catcher, molten corium discharge assembly, and the sodium void reactivity features of the CFV core, are promising to achieve in-vessel retention for both countries. The common design concept based on ASTRID 600 is feasible to demonstrate the SFR core and safety technologies for both countries.

Magnetic diffuse and quasi-elastic scatterings in frustrated magnet YBaCoO

Soda, Minoru*; Kofu, Maiko; Kawamura, Seiko; Asai, Shinichiro*; Masuda, Takatsugu*; Yoshizawa, Hideki*; Furukawa, Hazuki*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(9), p.094707_1 - 094707_5, 2022/09

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.91.094707

Hydrogen impurities in p-type semiconductors, GeS and GeTe

Nakamura, Jumpei*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Shimomura, Koichiro*; Suemasu, Takashi*

Journal of Applied Physics, 130(19), p.195701_1 - 195701_7, 2021/11

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0063080

High-temperature antiferromagnetism in Yb based heavy fermion systems proximate to a Kondo insulator

Suzuki, Shintaro*; Takubo, Ko*; Kuga, Kentaro*; Higemoto, Wataru; Ito, Takashi; Tomita, Takahiro*; Shimura, Yasumichi*; Matsumoto, Yosuke*; Bareille, C.*; Wadachi, Hiroki*; et al.

Physical Review Research (Internet), 3(2), p.023140_1 - 023140_12, 2021/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023140

We report our experimental discovery of the transition temperature reaching 20 K in a Yb-based compound at ambient pressure. The Mn substitution at the Al site in an intermediate valence state of -YbAlB not only induces antiferromagnetic transition at a record high temperature of 20 K but also transforms the heavy-fermion liquid state in -YbAlB into a highly resistive metallic state proximate to a Kondo insulator.

Neutron spin-echo studies of the structural relaxation of network liquid ZnCl at the structure factor primary peak and prepeak

Luo, P.*; Zhai, Y.*; Leao, J. B.*; Kofu, Maiko; Nakajima, Kenji; Faraone, A.*; Zhang, Y.*

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (Internet), 12(1), p.392 - 398, 2021/01

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03146

Using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy, we studied the microscopic structural relaxation of a prototypical network ionic liquid ZnCl at the structure factor primary peak and prepeak. The results show that the relaxation at the primary peak is faster than the prepeak and that the activation energy is % higher. A stretched exponential relaxation is observed even at temperatures well-above the melting point . Surprisingly, the stretching exponent shows a rapid increase upon cooling, especially at the primary peak, where it changes from a stretched exponential to a simple exponential on approaching the . These results suggest that the appearance of glassy dynamics typical of the supercooled state even in the equilibrium liquid state of ZnCl as well as the difference of activation energy at the two investigated length scales are related to the formation of a network structure on cooling.

Magnetic properties of one-dimensional quantum spin system RbCuMoO studied by muon spin relaxation

Kawamura, Seiko; Tomiyasu, Keisuke*; Koda, Akihiro*; Sari, D. P.*; Asih, R.*; Yoon, S.*; Watanabe, Isao*; Nakajima, Kenji

JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 21, p.011007_1 - 011007_5, 2018/03

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.21.011007

RbCuMoO is a one-dimensional quantum spin system with spin frustration. The magnetic ground state of this system has been expected to be incommensurate spin-singlet from a theoretical study. Furthermore, it was recently reported that this system exhibited ferroelectricity under a magnetic field. We carried out SR studies on this system to understand the magnetic properties. A slow muon spin relaxation due to nuclear dipoles is observed in the whole measured temperatures ranging from 0.06 K to 250 K, indicating that no magnetic ordering. The result suggests that the system shows a spin-singlet ground state. Furthermore, it was found that the distribution of the internal magnetic field were slightly enhanced below 10 K. This temperature dependence resembles that of the electric polarization observed in the magnetic field. It may indicate that some local anomaly of charge/spin related to the ferroelectricity is detected by a microscopic probe.

Peak-fitting analysis with Gaussian line shapes against experimental ESR spectrum consisting of multiple peak

Kikuchi, Masahiro; Nagata, Natsuki*; Komoda, Seiichi*; Kameya, Hiromi*; Ukai, Mitsuko*; Kobayashi, Yasuhiko

Shokuhin Shosha, 50(1), p.13 - 19, 2015/10

no abstracts in English

Unconventional superconductivity in PuRhGa; Ga NMR/NQR study

Sakai, Hironori; Tokunaga, Yo; Fujimoto, Tatsuya; Kambe, Shinsaku; Walstedt, R. E.; Yasuoka, Hiroshi; Aoki, Dai*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Nakamura, Akio; et al.

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 378-380, p.1005 - 1006, 2006/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2006.01.385

Ga NMR/NQR studies have been performed on a single crystal of the transuranium superconductor PuRhGa with =9 K. The spin-lattice relaxation rate reveals that PuRhGa is an unconventional superconductor having an anisotropic superconducting gap. Moreover, Korringa behavior () is observed in the normal state below 30 K. This result suggests that the superconductivity sets in after the formation of a Fermi liquid state in this compound.