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Ueta, Shohei; Mizuta, Naoki; Fukaya, Yuji; Goto, Minoru; Tachibana, Yukio; Honda, Masaki*; Saiki, Yohei*; Takahashi, Masashi*; Ohira, Koichi*; Nakano, Masaaki*; et al.
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 357, p.110419_1 - 110419_10, 2020/02
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：12.16(Nuclear Science & Technology)The concept of a plutonium (Pu) burner HTGR is proposed to incarnate highly-effective Pu utilization by its inherent safety features. The security and safety fuel (3S-TRISO fuel) employs the coated fuel particle with a fuel kernel made of plutonium dioxide (PuO
) and yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) as an inert matrix. This paper presents feasibility study of Pu burner HTGR and R&D on the 3S-TRISO fuel.
Goto, Minoru; Demachi, Kazuyuki*; Ueta, Shohei; Nakano, Masaaki*; Honda, Masaki*; Tachibana, Yukio; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Aihara, Jun; Fukaya, Yuji; Tsuji, Nobumasa*; et al.
Proceedings of 21st International Conference & Exhibition; Nuclear Fuel Cycle for a Low-Carbon Future (GLOBAL 2015) (USB Flash Drive), p.507 - 513, 2015/09
A concept of a plutonium burner HTGR named as Clean Burn, which has a high nuclear proliferation resistance, had been proposed by Japan Atomic Energy Agency. In addition to the high nuclear proliferation resistance, in order to enhance the safety, we propose to introduce PuO-YSZ TRISO fuel with ZrC coating to the Clean Burn. In this study, we conduct fabrication tests aiming to establish the basic technologies for fabrication of PuO-YSZ TRISO fuel with ZrC coating. Additionally, we conduct a quantitative evaluation of the security for the safety, a design of the fuel and the reactor core, and a safety evaluation for the Clean Burn to confirm the feasibility. This study is conducted by The University of Tokyo, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., and Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd. It was started in FY2014 and will be completed in FY2017, and the first year of the implementation was on schedule.
Tsuji, Nobumasa*; Nakano, Masaaki*; Takada, Eiji*; Tokuhara, Kazumi*; Ohashi, Kazutaka*; Okamoto, Futoshi*; Tazawa, Yujiro; Inaba, Yoshitomo; Tachibana, Yukio
Proceedings of 6th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology (HTR 2012) (USB Flash Drive), 9 Pages, 2012/10
Passive heat removal performance of the reactor vessel cavity cooling system (RCCS) is of primary concern for enhanced inherent safety of HTGR. In a loss of forced cooling accident, decay heat must be removed by radiation and natural convection of RCCS. Thus thermal hydraulic analysis of reactor internals and RCCS is powerful means for evaluation of the heat removal performance of RCCS. The thermal hydraulic analyses using CFD computation tools are conducted for normal operation of the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) and are compared to the temperature distribution of measured data. The calculated temperatures on outer faces of the permanent side reflector (PSR) blocks are in fair agreement with measured data. The transient analysis for decay heat removal mode in HTTR is also conducted.
C high temperature gas-cooled reactorNakano, Masaaki*; Takada, Eiji*; Tsuji, Nobumasa*; Tokuhara, Kazumi*; Ohashi, Kazutaka*; Okamoto, Futoshi*; Tazawa, Yujiro; Tachibana, Yukio
Proceedings of 6th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology (HTR 2012) (USB Flash Drive), 6 Pages, 2012/10
The conceptual core design study of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) is performed. The major specifications are 600 MW thermal output, 950C outlet coolant temperature, prismatic core type, enriched uranium fuel. The decay heat in the core can be removed with only passive measures, for example, natural convection reactor cavity cooling system (RCCS), even if any electricity is not supplied (station blackout). The transient thermal analysis of the depressurization accident in the case the primary coolant decreases to the atmosphere pressure shows that the fuels and the reactor pressure vessel temperatures are kept under their safety limit criteria. The fission product release, 
Ag and 
Cs from the fuels under the normal operation is small as to make maintenance of devices in the primary cooling system, such as a gas turbine, without remote maintenance. The HTGRs can achieve the advanced safety features based on their inherent passive safety characteristics.
Ohashi, Kazutaka; Nishihara, Tetsuo; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Nakano, Masaaki*; Tazawa, Yujiro*; Okamoto, Futoshi*
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai Wabun Rombunshi, 7(1), p.32 - 43, 2008/03
Interests on the development of the Very High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (VHTR), of which the reactor outlet temperature is 950C or much higher, are recently increasing world-widely and it was selected as one of the candidate reactor types of the GIF. Japan Atomic Energy Agency has already initiated R&D efforts on the electricity and hydrogen co-generation plant with VHTR system, GTHTR300C. Although technical feasibility of its VHTR reactor using Pin-in-block fuel, which has experience to be already used in the HTTR, has been shown fundamentally, more improvements of the core performances, such as decrease of the occupational exposure doses during the plant maintenance, are desired. This report presents the results of the conceptual core design study using Multi-hole type fuel and the study on the occupational exposure doses. The latter results shows much better plant maintainability compared to the previous results of the GTHTR-300.
Fujimoto, Nozomu; Yamashita, Kiyonobu*; Nojiri, Naoki; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Nakano, Masaaki*
Nuclear Science and Engineering, 150(3), p.310 - 321, 2005/07
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：40.47(Nuclear Science & Technology)Annular cores were formed in startup-core-physics tests of the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) to obtain experimental data for verification of calculation codes. The first criticality, control rod positions at critical conditions, neutron flux distribution, excess reactivity etc. were measured as representative data. These data were evaluated with Monte Carlo code MVP that can consider the heterogeneity of coated fuel particles (CFP) distributed randomly in fuel compacts directly. It was made clear that the heterogeneity effect of CFP on reactivity for annular cores is smaller than that for fully-loaded cores. Measured and calculated effective multiplication factors (k) were agreed with differences less than 1%
k. Measured neutron flux distributions agreed with calculated results. The revising method was applied for evaluation of excess reactivity to exclude negative shadowing effect of control rods. The revised and calculated excess reactivity agreed with differences less than 1%k/k.
Sumita, Junya; Nakano, Masaaki*; Tsuji, Nobumasa*; Shibata, Taiju; Ishihara, Masahiro
JAERI-Tech 2004-055, 25 Pages, 2004/08
JAERI-Tech-2004-055.pdf:4.25MB
Neutron irradiation remarkably reduces the thermal conductivity of graphite, and the reduced thermal conductivity is recovered by annealing effect if the graphite is heated above the irradiation temperature. Therefore, it is expected that the reduced thermal conductivity of graphite components in the HTGR could be recovered by the annealing effect in accidents, such as a depressurization accident. Then, an analytical investigation of the annealing effect on thermal performance of a HTGR core was carried. The analysis showed that the annealing effect reduces the maximum fuel temperature about 70C, and it is important to introduce the annealing effect appropriately in the temperature analysis of the core components and reactor internals. In addition, an annealing test method was investigated to evaluate the effect quantitatively, and the test plan was made.
Tozawa, Katsuhiro*; Yamada, Hiroyuki*; Ozaki, Hiroshi*; Nakano, Masaaki*
JNC TJ9420 2005-007, 104 Pages, 2004/02
JNC-TJ9420-2005-007.pdf:6.68MB
Coated particle nitride fuel fabrication facility for He gas cooled reactor on the Feasibility Study for FBR and Related Fuel Cycle has been investigated to reflect plant design considering detail effect of nitride fuel and remote handling and to evaluate waste production and plant cost.
Fujimoto, Nozomu; Nakano, Masaaki*; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Yamashita, Kiyonobu
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 42(5), p.458 - 464, 2000/05
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：42.66(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Nakano, Masaaki*; Umeta, Masayuki; Takeda, Takeshi; Mogi, Haruyoshi; Tanaka, Toshiyuki
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 42(1), p.30 - 42, 2000/01
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：26.42(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Fujimoto, Nozomu; Nakano, Masaaki*; Nojiri, Naoki; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Yamashita, Kiyonobu
JAERI-Conf 99-006, p.328 - 333, 1999/08
no abstracts in English
Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Fujisaki, Shingo; Nakano, Masaaki*; Nojiri, Naoki; Tamura, Seiji*
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 41(1), p.35 - 38, 1999/00
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Fujimoto, Nozomu; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Nakano, Masaaki*; Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Mogi, Haruyoshi
UTNL-R-0378, p.5.1 - 5.10, 1999/00
no abstracts in English
Nojiri, Naoki; Nakano, Masaaki; Ando, Hiroei; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Yamashita, Kiyonobu
JAERI-Tech 98-032, 59 Pages, 1998/08
no abstracts in English
Fujimoto, Nozomu; Nojiri, Naoki; Nakano, Masaaki*; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; Yamashita, Kiyonobu
JAERI-Tech 98-021, 66 Pages, 1998/06
no abstracts in English
Nakano, Masaaki; Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Nojiri, Naoki; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; *; Nakata, Tetsuo*
JAERI-Tech 98-017, 61 Pages, 1998/05
no abstracts in English
Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Nojiri, Naoki; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Nakano, Masaaki*; Ando, Hiroei; Nagao, Yoshiharu; Nagaya, Yasunobu; Akino, Fujiyoshi; Takeuchi, Mitsuo; Fujisaki, Shingo; et al.
Proc. of IAEA TCM on High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Applications and Future Prospects, p.185 - 197, 1998/00
no abstracts in English
Nojiri, Naoki; Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Nakano, Masaaki*; Yamane, Tsuyoshi; Akino, Fujiyoshi
JAERI-Tech 97-060, 34 Pages, 1997/11
no abstracts in English
Yamashita, Kiyonobu; Nakano, Masaaki*; Nojiri, Naoki; Fujimoto, Nozomu; Sawa, Kazuhiro; Nakata, Tetsuo*; Watanabe, Takashi*
JAERI-Tech 97-055, 62 Pages, 1997/10
no abstracts in English
Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Tachibana, Yukio; *; Nakano, Masaaki*; Saikusa, Akio; Takeda, Takeshi; Iyoku, Tatsuo; ; Sawahata, Hiroaki; Okubo, Minoru; et al.
JAERI-Tech 97-040, 91 Pages, 1997/09
no abstracts in English
