Safety strategy of JSFR eliminating severe recriticality events and establishing in-vessel retention in the core disruptive accident

Sato, Ikken; Tobita, Yoshiharu; Konishi, Kensuke; Kamiyama, Kenji; Toyooka, Junichi; Nakai, Ryodai; Kubo, Shigenobu*; Kotake, Shoji*; Koyama, Kazuya*; Vassiliev, Y. S.*; et al.

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 48(4), p.556 - 566, 2011/03

https://doi.org/10.3327/jnst.48.556

In the JSFR design, elimination of severe recriticality events in the Core Disruptive Accident (CDA) is intended as an effective measure to assure retention of the core materials within the reactor vessel. The design strategy is to control the potential of excessive void reactivity insertion in the Initiating Phase selecting appropriate design parameters such as maximum void reactivity on one hand, and to exclude core-wide molten-fuel-pool formation, which has been the main issue of CDA, with introduction of Inner Duct on the other hand. The effectiveness of these measures are reviewed based on existing experimental data and evaluations performed with validated analysis tools. It is judged that the present JSFR design can exlude severe power burst events.

The H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB); A Comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts

Yamasaki, Chisato*; Murakami, Katsuhiko*; Fujii, Yasuyuki*; Sato, Yoshiharu*; Harada, Erimi*; Takeda, Junichi*; Taniya, Takayuki*; Sakate, Ryuichi*; Kikugawa, Shingo*; Shimada, Makoto*; et al.

Nucleic Acids Research, 36(Database), p.D793 - D799, 2008/01

https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm999

Here we report the new features and improvements in our latest release of the H-Invitational Database, a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts. H-InvDB, originally developed as an integrated database of the human transcriptome based on extensive annotation of large sets of fulllength cDNA (FLcDNA) clones, now provides annotation for 120 558 human mRNAs extracted from the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD), in addition to 54 978 human FLcDNAs, in the latest release H-InvDB. We mapped those human transcripts onto the human genome sequences (NCBI build 36.1) and determined 34 699 human gene clusters, which could define 34 057 protein-coding and 642 non-protein-coding loci; 858 transcribed loci overlapped with predicted pseudogenes.

Development of laser driven proton sources and their applications

Daido, Hiroyuki; Sagisaka, Akito; Ogura, Koichi; Orimo, Satoshi; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Mori, Michiaki; Ma, J.-L.; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Kanazawa, Shuhei; et al.

Proceedings of 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR 2007) (CD-ROM), p.77 - 79, 2007/00

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4391143

We are developing a proton accelerator using an intense lasers with a focused intensity of 10 W/cm. To monitor proton energy spectra as well as plasma parameters at each laser shot, we are using real time detectors. The proton energy of MeV is stably obtained for applications.

Opacity effect on extreme ultraviolet radiation from laser-produced tin plasmas

Fujioka, Shinsuke*; Nishimura, Hiroaki*; Nishihara, Katsunobu*; Sasaki, Akira; Sunahara, Atsushi*; Okuno, Tomoharu*; Ueda, Nobuyoshi*; Ando, Tsuyoshi*; Tao, Y.*; Shimada, Yoshinori*; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 95(23), p.235004_1 - 235004_4, 2005/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.235004

no abstracts in English

Fundamental absorption of solid solution (NaBr-KBr)

Ozawa, K.; ; *; Nakai, Y.*

Phys.Lett.,A, 26A(5), p.213 - 214, 1968/00

no abstracts in English

Applications of the high intensity short-pulse laser driven MeV proton beam

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Daito, Izuru; Ikegami, Masahiro; Mori, Michiaki; Orimo, Satoshi; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Yogo, Akifumi; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Ma, J.*; et al.

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A laser-driven proton beam with a maximum energy of a few MeV is stably obtained using an ultra-short and high-intensity Titanium Sapphire laser. As compared with the proton beam from the conventional accelerator, this proton beam exhibits peculiar characteristics, such as, more than 10 protons per bunch are produced within a short pulse duration of ps at a source, resulting in a very high peak current. It also exhibits a very low transverse emittance. The proton beam has a divergence angle of 10 degrees and energy spread of 100%. It accompanies electrons and X-rays, which is produced simultaneously. Making the best use of these peculiar characteristics, many possible applications of the laser-driven proton are proposed. In order to make practical laser-driven proton beam for the applications, we carry out series of experiments. We have successfully obtained simultaneous imaging of the target with proton and X-ray or proton and electron beams. In the course of practical use of the proton beam for specific applications, characteristics above should be optimized based on the variations of the applications. For example, in order to apply the laser-driven proton beam for the proton irradiation system, such as used in the medical or the industrial applications, we should obtain focused or parallel proton beam. One of our plans to alter the orbits of the laser-driven protons from the planer tape target is using permanent quadrupole magnets.

Improvement of the stability of the laser accelerated electron beam by using colliding laser pulses

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Daito, Izuru; Kando, Masaki; Hayashi, Yukio; Kawase, Keigo; Kameshima, Takashi; Fukuda, Yuji; Homma, Takayuki; Ma, J.*; Chen, L. M.*; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Laser acceleration for stable electron beams at JAEA-APRC

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Kando, Masaki; Daito, Izuru; Hayashi, Yukio; Kawase, Keigo; Kameshima, Takashi*; Chen, L. M.*; Fukuda, Yuji; Homma, Takayuki; Esirkepov, T. Z.; et al.

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Laser-driven proton acceleration with a thin-foil target

Sagisaka, Akito; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Ogura, Koichi; Sakaki, Hironao; Maeda, Shota; Pikuz, T.; Faenov, A. Y.*; Fukuda, Yuji; Kanasaki, Masato; et al.

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High-intensity laser and thin-foil interactions produce high-energy particles, hard X-ray, high-order harmonics, and terahertz radiation. A proton beam driven by a high-intensity laser has received attention as a compact ion source for medical and other applications. We have performed several high intensity laser-matter interaction experiments using a thin-foil target irradiated by Ti:sapphire laser (J-KAREN) at JAEA. The pulse duration was typically 40 fs (FWHM). The high-order harmonics (2nd4th) were observed with the spectrometer in the reflected direction. The maximum proton energy of 40 MeV energy were observed at the peak laser intensity of 110W/cm.