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; Aoto, Kazumi;
JNC TN9400 99-061, 32 Pages, 1999/07
In this report, reconstruction of magnetic charges induced by mechanical damages in a test piece of SUS304 stainless steel is performed as a part of eforts to establish a passive nondestructive testing method on the basis of the inspection of leakage magnetic field. The approach for solving this typical ill-posed inverse problem is selected as a way in the least square method category. Concerning the ill-poseness of the system of equations, an iteration algorithm is adopted to its solving in which the designations of initial profile, the weight coefficients and the total number of iterations are taken as means of reqularization. From examples using simulated input data, it is verified that the approach gives good reconstruction results in case of signals with a relative high S/N ratio. For improving the robustness of the proposed method, a Galerkin procedure with base functions chosen as the Daubechies' wavelet is also introduced for discretizing the governing equation. By comparing the reconstruction results of the least square method and those using wavelet discretization, it is found that the wavelet used approach is more feasible in the inversion of noise polluted signals. Reconstruction of 1-D and 2-D magnetic charges with the least square strategy and reconstruction of an 1-D problem with the wavelet used method are carried out from both simulated and measured magnetic field signals which are used as the validation of the proposed inversion strategy.
Morita, Koji; Tobita, Yoshiharu; kondo, Satoru; E.A.Fischer*
JNC TN9400 2000-005, 57 Pages, 1999/05
JNC-TN9400-2000-005.pdf:2.92MB
An improved analytic equation-of-state (EOS) model using flexible thermodynamic functions is developed for a reactor safety analysis code, SIMMER-III. The present EOS model is designed to have adequate accuracy in describing thermodynamic properties of reactor-core materials over wide temperature and pressure ranges and to consistently satisfy basic thermodynamic relationships without deterioration of the computing efficiency. The fluid-dynamic algorithm for pressure iteration consistently coupled with the EOS model is also described in the present report. The EOS data of the basic core materials, uranium dioxide, mixed-oxide fuel, stainless steel, and sodium, are developed up to the critical point by compiling the most up-to-date and reliable sources using basic thermodynamic relationships. The thermodynamic consistency and accuracy of the evaluated EOS data are also discussed by comparison with the available sources.
Sumino, Kozo; Aoyama, Takafumi; Emoto, Takehiko
PNC TN9410 96-233, 27 Pages, 1996/08
It is important to accurately evaluate Corrosion Products (CPs) behavior in a FBR plant to reduce the personnel exposure due to CP deposition. A series of measurements of the gamma-ray dose rate distribution has been carried out in the Experimental Fast Reactor JOYO to characterize the CP behavior in the primary coolant system. The Plastic Scintillation Fiber (PSF), which is a position sensitive radiation detector that can detect the radiation dose rate at the relevant position in the fiber, was introduced to upgrade the gamma-ray distribution measurement in JOYO. In order to apply the PSF for the JOYO environment, the specification of the fiber was modified to obtain a wide range of sensitivity from about 0.01mSv/h up to 10mSv/h. This range covers the gamma-ray dose rate in the JOYO primary coolant system. In higher gradients of dose rate distribution than that of the PSF's position resolution, the measured data were unfolded by using the response matrix with a successive approximation method to reproduce the narrow distribution. As a result of the study on PSF, the continuous gamma-ray dose rate distribution was able to be measured by PSF in a few minutes, whereas point data at 1 m intervals were laboriously obtained by a set of Thermo-luminescence Dosimeters (TLDs). It was confirmed that the measurement of CP behavior upgraded significantly by using a detailed gamma-ray dose rate distribution.
Sasaki, Miyuki; Ishizaki, Azusa; Sanada, Yukihisa
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Since accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), some unmanned vehicle was applied for radiation measurement around the FDNPS. JAEA is developing a method using a small multi-rotor helicopter (micro UAV) for measurement of radiation in the environment. The micro UAV is expected to be useful to measure the radiation distribution at small areas easily. In the conventional method, there are some premises to convert from count rate to dose rate at 1 m above the ground and they make it difficult to measure precise dose rate by airborne monitoring system at mountains and uneven places. Besides, the influence of the radiation from a structure and tree on the ground is not ignored at the low altitude less than 50 m that micro UAV can fly stably. In this study, the successive approximation method which is used in the medical radiation such as Positron Emission Tomography is attempted to apply to environmental radiation measurement.