New design of a sample cell for neutron reflectometry in liquid-liquid systems and its application for studying structures at air-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces

Akutsu-Suyama, Kazuhiro*; Yamada, Norifumi*; Ueda, Yuki; Motokawa, Ryuhei; Narita, Hirokazu*

Applied Sciences (Internet), 12(3), p.1215_1 - 1215_10, 2022/02

https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031215

no abstracts in English

Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2018

Nakano, Masanao; Fujii, Tomoko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Kono, Takahiko; Hosomi, Kenji; Nishimura, Shusaku; Matsubara, Natsumi; Maehara, Yushi; Narita, Ryosuke; et al.

JAEA-Review 2019-048, 165 Pages, 2020/03

JAEA-Review-2019-048.pdf:2.69MB

Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2018 to March 2019. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (the trade name was changed to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. on April 1, 2016) in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.

Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2017

Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Mizutani, Tomoko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Kono, Takahiko; Hosomi, Kenji; Hokama, Tomonori; Nishimura, Tomohiro; Matsubara, Natsumi; et al.

JAEA-Review 2018-025, 171 Pages, 2019/02

JAEA-Review-2018-025.pdf:3.81MB

Environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant has been performed by the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, based on "Safety Regulations for the Reprocessing Plant of Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Chapter IV - Environmental Monitoring". This annual report presents the results of the environmental monitoring and the dose estimation to the hypothetical inhabitant due to the radioactivity discharged from the plant to the atmosphere and the sea during April 2016 to March 2017. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. in March 2011. Appendices present comprehensive information, such as monitoring programs, monitoring methods, monitoring results and their trends, meteorological data and discharged radioactive wastes. In addition, the data which were influenced by the accidental release and were exceeded the normal range of fluctuation in the monitoring, were evaluated.

Live-cell imaging study of mitochondrial morphology in mammalian cells exposed to X-rays

Noguchi, Miho; Kanari, Yukiko; Yokoya, Akinari; Narita, Ayumi; Fujii, Kentaro

Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 166(1-4), p.101 - 103, 2015/09

https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncv157

Safety managements of the linear IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator

Takahashi, Hiroki; Maebara, Sunao; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Narita, Takahiro; Tsutsumi, Kazuyoshi; Sakaki, Hironao; Suzuki, Hiromitsu; Sugimoto, Masayoshi

Fusion Engineering and Design, 89(9-10), p.2066 - 2070, 2014/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2014.02.051

Interface test between IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator control system and injector

Takahashi, Hiroki; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Narita, Takahiro; Maebara, Sunao; Sakaki, Hironao; Suzuki, Hiromitsu

Proceedings of 10th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.724 - 727, 2014/06

http://www.pasj.jp/web_publish/pasj10/proceedings/PDF/SAP0/SAP093.pdf

no abstracts in English

-ray and neutron area monitoring system of linear IFMIF prototype accelerator building

Takahashi, Hiroki; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Narita, Takahiro; Tsutsumi, Kazuyoshi; Maebara, Sunao; Sakaki, Hironao; Nishiyama, Koichi

Fusion Engineering and Design, 88(9-10), p.2736 - 2739, 2013/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.04.007

For radiation safety of the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator, -ray and neutron area monitoring system are designed. This system monitors and records the measured data by using both a supervisory board in the access room and central control system. The interlock signals are sent to Personnel Protection System (PPS) and Machine Protection System (MPS) when the integrated dose value exceeds a threshold value. After receiving them, the PPS and the MPS immediately inhibit the beam operation for secure radiation safety. This monitoring system is designed to achieve a high reliability for data transfer using hardwired interlock signals and the performance of data communication between area monitoring system and control system.

Development status of data acquisition system for LIPAc

Takahashi, Hiroki; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Narita, Takahiro; Sakaki, Hironao; Komukai, Satoshi*

Proceedings of 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '12) (Internet), p.3972 - 3974, 2012/07

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/IPAC2012/papers/thppr004.pdf

Control System for LIPAc realizes the remote control and monitoring and data acquisition by use of EPICS. For the validations of each subsystem performance and the activity of IFMIF Accelerator design, it is very important data obtained by commissioning of LIPAc and each subsystem. To certainly archive the important data for LIPAc and to efficiently search the LIPAc data, for design and validation, we started developing Data Acquisition System (DAC) based on Relational Database (RDB) has been developed. The first design for DAC of LIPAc is configured (1) using PostgreSQL for RDB and (2) several RDB for data archiving to ensure the data archive performance and to consider the increasing data amount. In addition, (3) only one RDB for data search is included in DAC and users can search the data via this RDB. In this way, several RDB for DAC can behave only one RDB against users. In this article, the development status of DAC for LIPAc is presented.

Development status of PPS, MPS and TS for IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator

Takahashi, Hiroki; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Tsutsumi, Kazuyoshi; Narita, Takahiro; Nishiyama, Koichi; Sakaki, Hironao; Maebara, Sunao

Proceedings of 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2011) (Internet), p.1734 - 1736, 2011/09

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/IPAC2011/papers/tups084.pdf

Control system for the IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator consists of six subsystems; Central Control System (CCS), Local Area Network (LAN), Personnel Protection System (PPS), Machine Protection System (MPS), Timing System (TS) and Local Control System (LCS). The Prototype Accelerator provides the deuteron beam with the beam power more than 1 MW, and this control system is required the high reliability and usability to perform various operation modes for beam commissioning. To satisfy these requirements, we are developing mainly PPS, MPS and TS at the beginning. This paper presents the status of hardware development of the PPS, MPS and TS.

Self-ordering of silicon polymer thin film grown on indium tin oxide surface investigated by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Mannan, M. A.*; Baba, Yuji; Sekiguchi, Tetsuhiro; Shimoyama, Iwao; Hirao, Norie; Narita, Ayumi; Nagano, Masamitsu*; Noguchi, Hideyuki*

Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 181(2-3), p.242 - 248, 2010/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2010.02.014

The ordering and molecular orientation of polydimethylsilane (PDMS) films grown on indium tin oxide (ITO) surface has been assigned. The orientation of the samples as well as that of the annealed sample was studied by Si K-edge near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using linearly polarized synchrotron radiation. The Si K-edge NEXAFS spectra for the thick film have at least four resonance peaks of which two peaks are found to be strongly polarization dependent. On the basis of the polarization dependences of the peak intensities, it is revealed that the backbones of the PDMS films are perpendicularly oriented on the ITO surface. The angle between surface and the Si-Si bonds for multilayered film calculated from the helical structure of PDMS molecule was found to be 41.5 which was almost coincided with the experimentally obtained angle of 40 . It was concluded that PDMS molecules are highly self-ordered on ITO surface.