Development of a laser chipping technique combined with water jet for retrieval of fuel debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Yamada, Tomonori; Takebe, Toshihiko*; Ishizuka, Ippei*; Daido, Hiroyuki*; Hanari, Toshihide; Shibata, Takuya; Omori, Shinya*; Kurosawa, Koichi*; Sasaki, Go*; Nakada, Masahiro*; et al.

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 56(12), p.1171 - 1179, 2019/12

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2019.1647890

We describe a new chipping technique combined with a water-jet technique as one of the candidate techniques for the retrieval of fuel debris and support structures as part of the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. We performed proof-of-principle experiments to demonstrate the removal capability of metal parts, where we focused on the observation of removal processes from a metallic sample using a 5.5-kW continuous wave fiber laser combined with continuous and pulsed water jets.

Demonstration of laser processing technique combined with water jet technique for retrieval of fuel debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Hanari, Toshihide; Takebe, Toshihiko*; Yamada, Tomonori; Daido, Hiroyuki; Ishizuka, Ippei*; Omori, Shinya*; Kurosawa, Koichi*; Sasaki, Go*; Nakada, Masahiro*; Sakai, Hideaki*

Proceedings of 2017 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2017) (CD-ROM), 3 Pages, 2017/04

In decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, a retrieval process of fuel debris in the Primary Containment Vessel by a remote operation is one of the key issues. In this process, prevention of spreading radioactive materials is one of the important considerations. Furthermore, an applicable technique to the process requires keeping of reasonable processing-efficiency. We propose to use the combined technique including a laser light and a water jet as a retrieval technique of the fuel debris. The laser processing technique combined with a repetitive pulsed water jet could perform an efficient retrieval processing. Our experimental result encourages us to promote further development of the technique towards a real application at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

Emergent phenomena in perovskite-type manganites

Taguchi, Yasujiro*; Sakai, Hideaki*; Okuyama, Daisuke*; Ishiwata, Shintaro*; Fujioka, Jun*; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Hashizume, Daisuke*; Kagawa, Fumitaka*; Takahashi, Yoichiro*; Shimano, Ryo*; et al.

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 407(11), p.1685 - 1688, 2012/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2012.01.006

Field-induced incommensurate-to-commensurate transition in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet GdPdAl

Inami, Toshiya; Terada, Noriki*; Kitazawa, Hideaki*; Sakai, Osamu*

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 200, p.032022_1 - 032022_4, 2010/02

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/200/3/032022

Present design and calculation for the injection-dump line of the RCS at J-PARC

Saha, P. K.; Noda, Fumiaki*; Irie, Yoshiro; Hotchi, Hideaki; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Hayashi, Naoki; Machida, Shinji*; Sakai, Izumi*

Proceedings of 2005 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC '05) (CD-ROM), p.3739 - 3741, 2005/00

The RCS(rapid cycling synchrotron) of J-PARC(Japan proton accelerator research complex) acts as an injector to the main ring as well as a high-power beam for the spallation neutron source at a repetition rate of 25 Hz, where at present the injection and the extraction beam energy are chosen to be 0.181 GeV and 3.0 GeV, respectively. The present work concerns on the present design and calculations for the injection-dump line of the RCS, which includes, (1) an accurate aperture list of all elements taking into account a wide range of the betatron tune, effect of changing injection modes, multiple trajectories of different particles after the charge-exchange foil(like H0 from the H- and H- beam itself)and (2) an accurate estimation of the uncontrolled beam losses especially from the H0-excited states, multiple coulomb scattering at the charge-exchange foil and also the lorentz stripping loss at the septum magnets so as to optimize them concerning mainly the radiation issues as well as for the hands-on maintenance.

Development of a remote controlled fatigue testing apparatus at elevated temperature in controlled environment

Omi, Masao; Mimura, Hideaki; ; Fukaya, Kiyoshi; Yonekawa, Minoru; Goto, Ichiro; ; Saito, Junichi; Eto, Motokuni;

JAERI-Tech 96-005, 39 Pages, 1996/02

JAERI-Tech-96-005.pdf:2.28MB

no abstracts in English

Simulation of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of the heater test in Mont Terri, Switzerland

Maekawa, Keisuke; Suzuki, Hideaki*; Sakai, Yuichi; Nakama, Shigeo; Sugita, Yutaka

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Development on processing technology with combination of laser and water jet for decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 1; Capability of the processing technique

Takebe, Toshihiko*; Hanari, Toshihide; Yamada, Tomonori; Daido, Hiroyuki; Ishizuka, Ippei*; Omori, Shinya*; Kurosawa, Koichi*; Sasaki, Go*; Nakada, Masahiro*; Sakai, Hideaki*

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Development of a laser processing technique combined with water jet technique

Ishizuka, Ippei*; Takebe, Toshihiko*; Yamada, Tomonori; Omori, Shinya*; Kurosawa, Koichi*; Sasaki, Go*; Nakada, Masahiro*; Sakai, Hideaki*; Shibata, Takuya

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

レーザー光を用いた溶断・破砕適応制御装置

村松 壽晴; 山田 知典; 羽成 敏秀; 武部 俊彦; 松永 幸大

酒井 英明*; 碓井 秀三*; 中田 正宏*; 坪井 昭彦*; 社本 英泰*

JP, 2014-016086  Patent licensing information  Patent publication (In Japanese)

【課題】異なる材料が混在して、無定形で不規則な外形を有する処理対象物を、その材料に対応して溶断あるいは破砕できるレーザー光を用いた溶断・破砕適応制御装置を提供する。 【解決手段】レーザー加工ヘッド6を搭載したロボット1、対象物19の状態を検出する検出部3、検出情報に基づいてロボット1を制御する制御部2を備え、検出部3は対象物19からのレーザー光8の反射光25を受光し、反射光25に基づいて対象物19の形状を認識するレーザースキャナ12、反射光25に基づいて対象物19の材質を検出する分光計1と、反射光25に基づいて対象物19の溶断の有無を検出する温度計13を有し、制御部2は検出部3からの情報に基づいて、ロボットをするロボット制御部と、レーザー光8を制御するレーザー光制御部9を有している。