Induction of Fusarium wilt resistant by ion beam irradiation in strawberry ( ) leaf explants

Yotoriyama, Mamoru*; Takano, Junichi*; Namai, Kiyoshi*; Yoshihara, Ryohei; Nozawa, Shigeki; Hase, Yoshihiro; Narumi, Issei

JAEA-Review 2010-065, JAEA Takasaki Annual Report 2009, P. 71, 2011/01

https://jopss.jaea.go.jp/pdfdata/JAEA-Review-2010-065.pdf

no abstracts in English

Characterization of electrode/electrolyte interface for lithium batteries using synchrotron X-ray reflectometry; A New experimental technique for LiCoO model electrode

Hirayama, Masaaki*; Sonoyama, Noriyuki*; Abe, Takashi*; Minoura, Machiko*; Ito, Masumi*; Mori, Daisuke*; Yamada, Atsuo*; Kanno, Ryoji*; Terashima, Takahito*; Takano, Mikio*; et al.

Journal of Power Sources, 168(2), p.493 - 500, 2007/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2007.03.034

A new experimental technique was developed for detecting structure changes at electrode/electrolyte interface of lithium cell using X-ray reflectometry and two-dimensional model electrodes with a restricted lattice-plane. The electrodes were constructed with an epitaxial film of LiCoO synthesized by pulsed laser deposition method. The anisotropic properties were confirmed by electrochemical measurements. X-ray reflectivity measurements indicated that the impurity layer existed on the as-grown LiCoO was dissolved and a new SEI layer with lower density was formed after soaking into the electrolyte. X-ray reflectivity measurements indicated that the surface roughness of the intercalation (1 1 0) plane increased with applying voltages, while no significant changes in surface morphology were observed for the intercalation non-active (0 0 3) plane during the pristine stage of the charge-discharge process.

Effects of silicon, carbon and molybdenum additions on IASCC of neutron irradiated austenitic stainless steels

Nakano, Junichi; Miwa, Yukio; Koya, Toshio; Tsukada, Takashi

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part1), p.643 - 647, 2004/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2004.04.098

To study effects of minor elements on the irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC), high purity Type 304 and 316 stainless steels (SSs) were fabricated and added minor elements, Si or C. After neutron irradiation to 3.510n/m (E1MeV), the slow strain rate tests (SSRT) for the irradiated specimens was conducted in oxygeneted high purity water at 561 K. Fracture surface of the specimens was examined using the scanning electron microscope (SEM) after the SSRT. Fraction of intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) on the fracture surface after the SSRT increased with netron fluence. Suppression of irradiation hardening and increase of peiod to SCC fracture as benefitical effects of the additional elements, Si or Mo, were not observed obviously. In high purity SS added C, fraction of IGSCC was the smallest in the all SSs, although irraidiation hardening level was the largest in the all SSs. Addition of C suppressed the susceptibility to IGSCC.

Development of facility for in-situ observation during slow strain rate test for irradiated materials

Nakano, Junichi; Tsukada, Takashi; Tsuji, Hirokazu; Terakado, Shogo; Koya, Toshio; Endo, Shinya

JAERI-Tech 2003-092, 54 Pages, 2004/01

JAERI-Tech-2003-092.pdf:14.05MB

Irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) is a degradation phenomenon caused by synergy of neutron radiation, aqueous environment and stress on in-core materials, and it is an important issue in accordance with increase of aged light water reactors. Isolating crack initiation stage from crack growth stage is very useful for the evaluation of the IASCC behavior. Hence facility for in-situ observation during slow strain rate test (SSRT) for irradiated material was developed. As performance demonstrations of the facility, tensile test with in-situ observation and SSRT without observation were carried out using unirradiated type 304 stainless steel in 561 K water at 9 MPa. The following were confirmed from the results. (1) Handling, observation and recording of specimen can be operated using manipulators in the hot cell. (2) In-situ observation can be performed in pressurized high temperature water and flat sheet type specimen is suitable for the in-situ observation. (3) Test condition can be kept constantly and data can be obtained automatically for long test period.

Japanese evaluated nuclear data library version 3 revision-3; JENDL-3.3

Shibata, Keiichi; Kawano, Toshihiko*; Nakagawa, Tsuneo; Iwamoto, Osamu; Katakura, Junichi; Fukahori, Tokio; Chiba, Satoshi; Hasegawa, Akira; Murata, Toru*; Matsunobu, Hiroyuki*; et al.

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(11), p.1125 - 1136, 2002/11

https://doi.org/10.3327/jnst.39.1125

Evaluation for JENDL-3.3 has been performed by considering the accumulated feedback information and various benchmark tests of the previous library JENDL-3.2. The major problems of the JENDL-3.2 data were solved by the new library: overestimation of criticality values for thermal fission reactors was improved by the modifications of fission cross sections and fission neutron spectra for U; incorrect energy distributions of secondary neutrons from important heavy nuclides were replaced with statistical model calculations; the inconsistency between elemental and isotopic evaluations was removed for medium-heavy nuclides. Moreover, covariance data were provided for 20 nuclides. The reliability of JENDL-3.3 was investigated by the benchmark analyses on reactor and shielding performances. The results of the analyses indicate that JENDL-3.3 predicts various reactor and shielding characteristics better than JENDL-3.2.

Phonon softening in boron doped diamond

Fukuda, Tatsuo; Hoesch, M.*; Takenouchi, Tomohiro*; Sutter, J. P.*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Baron, A.*; Nagao, Masanori*; Takano, Yoshihiko*; Kawarada, Hiroshi*; Mizuki, Junichiro

no journal, , 

Diamond is well known for its maximum hardness, large energy gap, high thermal conductivity, and so on. In addition to these, the superconductivity was discovered recently in boron doped (B-doped) diamond, and this was soon confirmed by other groups. We performed inelastic X-ray scattering experiments at BL35XU of SPring-8 to measure phonons in a highly B-doped CVD grown diamond having superconducting transition at 4.2 K. By comparing the experimental results with those from nitrogen doped CVD grown diamond and/or pure diamond, we found that the optical modes are softened especially at around the Brillouin zone center along with a strong broadening, while the acoustic modes do not show both softening and broadening. This confirms the strong electron-phonon coupling in superconducting diamond.

Magnetism and local structures of new ferromagnet BaFeO and related materials

Yoshii, Kenji; Hayashi, Naoaki*; Matsumura, Daiju; Kusano, Shogo*; Mizumaki, Masaichiro*; Mizuki, Junichiro*; Takano, Mikio*

no journal, , 

We have investigated the magnetocaloric effect of BaFeO and related materials. The substitutions at Ba and Fe sites was found to lead to a suppression of ground-state antiferromagnetic ordering. Hence, hysteretic losses are suppressed by the substitution, a property which is favorable to practical application. From EXAFS measurements using synchrotron radiation, BaFeO involves a local structural distortion around Fe, whereas such behavior is suppressed by the substitutions. This may be related to the suppression of antiferromagnetic state, whose details will be presented at the conference.