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Ebashi, Takeshi; Kawamura, Makoto*; Inagaki, Manabu*; Koo, Shigeru*; Shibata, Masahiro; Itazu, Toru; Nakajima, Kunihiko*; Miyahara, Kaname; Apted, M. J.*
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Vol.1665, p.39 - 45, 2014/07
In Japan, the likelihood of uplift/erosion on repository performance and waste isolation can be typically greatly reduced or excluded by careful siting, however, the inability to completely exclude the uplift/erosion scenario may require an analysis of the consequences of such a scenario. For this purpose, an assessment approach has been developed to more realistically treat the effect of uplift/erosion for a hypothetical repository located in sedimentary host rock. A key advantage to this approach is the extrapolation of the geohistory of modern analogue sites to develop credible initial inputs for future volunteer sites that may be poorly characterized at the initial stages of site investigation. In addition, the approach provides a systematic basis for bounding the range of possible evolution in thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical conditions of a repository experiencing different uplift/ erosion rates.
Gin, S.*; Abdelouas, A.*; Criscenti, L.*; Ebert, W.*; Ferrand, K.*; Geisler, T.*; Harrison, M.*; Inagaki, Yaohiro*; Mitsui, Seiichiro; Mueller, K. T.*; et al.
Materials Today, 16(6), p.243 - 248, 2013/06
Times Cited Count:381 Percentile:99.18(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The nations producing borosilicate glass as a confinement material for high-level waste resulting from spent fuel reprocessing have decided to reinforce scientific collaboration in order to obtain consensus on the mechanisms controlling the long-term dissolution rate of glass. This goal is the most important issue for developing reliable predictive models usable for performance assessment and safety demonstration of geological storage of such materials. This collaboration involves numerous laboratories working either in fundamental or applied research and using all the modern tools available in material science. We present first the situation of the six countries involved in the project regarding their history in nuclear waste vitrification, current policy, and geological disposal project development. This provides an understanding of the common and country specific needs regarding the issue of long-term behavior of glass. Then main proposals and first results are briefly presented.
Inagaki, Shigeru*; Kanki, Takashi*; Koga, J. K.; Ishihara, Osamu*
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 88(9), p.534 - 536, 2012/09
Savage, D.*; Soler, J. M.*; Yamaguchi, Kohei; Walker, C.; Honda, Akira; Inagaki, Manabu; Watson, C.*; Wilson, J.*; Benbow, S.*; Gaus, I.*; et al.
Applied Geochemistry, 26(7), p.1138 - 1152, 2011/07
Times Cited Count:19 Percentile:48.24(Geochemistry & Geophysics)The use of cement and concrete as fracture grouting or as tunnel seals in a geological disposal facility for rad wastes creates potential issues concerning chemical reactivity. From a long term safety perspective, it is desirable to be able model these interactions and changes quantitatively. As part of the LCS (Long-term Cement Studies) project programme, a modelling inter-comparison has been conducted, involving the modelling of two experiments describing cement hadration and cement-rock reaction, with teams representing the NDA (UK), Posiva (Finland), and JAEA. This modelling exercise showed that the dominant reaction pathways in the two experiments are fairly well understood and are consistent between the different modelling teams, although significant differences existed amongst the precise parameterisation. Future modelling exercises of this type should focus on a suitable natural or industrial analogue that might aid assessing mineral-fluid reactions at these longer timescales.
Takase, Hiroyasu*; Inagaki, Manabu*; Noguchi, Toshihide*; Shimaoka, Akiko*; Martin, A. J.*; Wakamatsu, Hisanori*; Takase, Kyoko*; Tabara, Michiko*; Matsui, Hiroya
JAEA-Research 2007-066, 215 Pages, 2007/08
In this study a systematic approach to explicitly address type and size of uncertainties associated with safety assessment due mainly to incomplete knowledge on a spatially heterogeneous geological environment was developed. In this approach a wide range of model variations including the ones with relatively law plausibility are taken into account so that ambiguity remaining in the knowledge is illustrated, which is a distinctive feature of the approach compared with the conventional methodology where only a limited number of best plausible model variations are considered. The study also proposed an approach to assessing plausibility of each model variation based on multiple pieces of evidence by using evidential support logic (ESL). Furthermore the approach was applied to Horonobe area to demonstrate its applicability to the similar class of geological environment as an example.
Ando, Toshinari; Hiyama, Tadao; Takahashi, Yoshikazu; Nakajima, Hideo; Kato, Takashi; Isono, Takaaki; Sugimoto, Makoto; Kawano, Katsumi; Koizumi, Norikiyo; Nunoya, Yoshihiko; et al.
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 10(1), p.568 - 571, 2000/03
Times Cited Count:10 Percentile:53.49(Engineering, Electrical & Electronic)no abstracts in English
Ando, Toshinari; Hiyama, Tadao; Takahashi, Yoshikazu; Nakajima, Hideo; Kato, Takashi; Sugimoto, Makoto; Isono, Takaaki; Kawano, Katsumi; Koizumi, Norikiyo; Hamada, Kazuya; et al.
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 9(2), p.628 - 631, 1999/06
Times Cited Count:8 Percentile:51.48(Engineering, Electrical & Electronic)no abstracts in English
Hamada, Kazuya; Nakajima, Hideo; Kato, Takashi; Ando, Toshinari; *; Tsuji, Hiroshi; Shimamoto, Susumu*; *; *; Inagaki, J.*
Proc. of 15th Int. Conf. on Magnet Technology (MT-15), p.405 - 408, 1997/10
no abstracts in English