Research on engineering technology in the full-scale demonstration of EBS and operation technology for HLW disposal; Research report in 2013 (Joint research)

Fujita, Tomoo; Tanai, Kenji; Nakayama, Masashi; Sawada, Sumiyuki*; Asano, Hidekazu*; Saito, Masahiko*; Yoshino, Osamu*; Kobayashi, Masato*

JAEA-Research 2014-031, 44 Pages, 2015/03

JAEA-Research-2014-031.pdf:16.11MB

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center (RWMC) concluded the letter of cooperation agreement on the research and development of radioactive waste disposal in April, 2005, and have been carrying out the collaboration work based on the agreement. JAEA have been carrying out the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (URL) Project which is intended for a sedimentary rock in the Horonobe town, Hokkaido, since 2001. In the project, geoscientific research and research and development on geological disposal technology are being promoted. Meanwhile, the government (the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) has been promoting construction of equipments for the full-scale demonstration of engineered barrier system (EBS) and operation technology for high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal since 2008, to enhance public's understanding to the geological disposal of HLW, e.g. using underground facility. RWMC received an order of the project in fiscal year 2012 (2011/2012) continuing since fiscal year 2008 (2008/2009). Since topics in this project are included in the Horonobe URL Project, JAEA carried out this project as collaboration work continuing since fiscal year 2008. This report summarizes the results of engineering technology carried out in this collaboration work in fiscal year 2013. In fiscal year 2013, emplacement tests using buffer material block for the vertical emplacement concept were carried out and visualization tests for water penetration in buffer material were carried out.

Neutron powder diffraction and difference maximum entropy method analysis of protium- and deuterium-dissolved BaSnInO

Nagasaki, Takanori*; Shiotani, Shinya*; Igawa, Naoki; Yoshino, Masahito*; Iwasaki, Kota*; Fukazawa, Hiroshi; Utsumi, Wataru

Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 182(10), p.2632 - 2639, 2009/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2009.06.024

We propose a new method, a difference maximum entropy method (MEM) analysis of the neutron diffraction data, for revealing the detailed structure around hydrogen atoms in proton-conducting oxides. This MEM analysis uses the differences between the structure factors of protium- and deuterium-dissolved crystals. Simulations demonstrate that it not only provides the distribution of hydrogen atoms alone, but also improves the spatial resolution of MEM mapping around hydrogen atoms. Applied to actual diffraction data of protium- and deuterium-dissolved BaSnInO at 9 K, difference MEM analysis reveals that O-D bonds mostly tilt towards the second nearest oxygen atoms, and that the distributions of deuterium and oxygen atoms are probably insignificant in interstitial regions.

Location of deuterium atoms in BaSnInO at 77-473 K by neutron powder diffraction

Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Nagasaki, Takanori*; Iwasaki, Kota*; Yoshino, Masahito*; Matsui, Tsuneo*; Fukazawa, Hiroshi; Igawa, Naoki; Ishii, Yoshinobu

Solid State Ionics, 178(7-10), p.607 - 613, 2007/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssi.2007.01.024

no abstracts in English

The Determination of deuteron site in SrZrScO by neutron powder diffraction

Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Nagasaki, Takanori*; Iwasaki, Kota*; Yoshino, Masahito*; Matsui, Tsuneo*; Igawa, Naoki; Ishii, Yoshinobu

Solid State Ionics, 177(26-32), p.2353 - 2356, 2006/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssi.2006.03.052

no abstracts in English

Deuteron site in BaSnInO and its change with temperature by neutron powder diffraction

Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Nagasaki, Takanori*; Iwasaki, Kota*; Yoshino, Masahito*; Matsui, Tsuneo*; Fukazawa, Hiroshi; Igawa, Naoki; Ishii, Yoshinobu

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Location of deuterium atoms in BaSnInO-DO at 77-473 K by neutron powder diffraction, 2

Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Nagasaki, Takanori*; Iwasaki, Kota*; Yoshino, Masahito*; Matsui, Tsuneo*; Fukazawa, Hiroshi; Igawa, Naoki; Ishii, Yoshinobu

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Neutron powder diffraction and difference MEM analysis of DO- and HO-dissolved Ba(Sn,In)O proton conductors, 2; Application to actual data and its evaluation

Shiotani, Shinya*; Nagasaki, Takanori*; Igawa, Naoki; Iwasaki, Kota*; Yoshino, Masahito*; Fukazawa, Hiroshi; Utsumi, Wataru

no journal, , 

A difference maximum entropy method (MEM) analysis was applied to actual neutron powder diffraction data of DO- and HO- dissolved Ba(Sn,In)O. It was found that a difference MEM analysis provided to be effective to improve the spatial resolution of MEM mapping for the structure around hydrogen atoms.

Development of the Integrated System for Repository Engineering (ISRE), 2; Integrated model for the ISRE

Kobayashi, Yuichi*; Fujisawa, Yasuo*; Yoshino, Hiroyuki*; Sugita, Yutaka; Kawaguchi, Tatsuya; Hatanaka, Koichiro; Shibata, Masahiro; Yamamura, Masato*; Kamisakoda, Kazuto*; Shimbo, Hiroshi*; et al.

no journal, , 

This paper reports on the development of ISRE (the Integrated System for Repository Engineering), as a knowledge management tool on repository design and engineering technology, which manages and inherits the information and knowledge of each phase of the disposal project of radioactive waste lasting around 100 years, and which also enables reasonable design of the repository by using accumulated and integrated information. The content of this paper is a formulation of the integrated model for the ISRE and management method of the attribute information associated with the data model.