The Japan Health Physics Society Guideline on Dose Monitoring for the Lens of the Eye

Yokoyama, Sumi*; Tsujimura, Norio; Hashimoto, Makoto; Yoshitomi, Hiroshi; Kato, Masahiro*; Kurosawa, Tadahiro*; Tatsuzaki, Hideo*; Sekiguchi, Hiroshi*; Koguchi, Yasuhiro*; Ono, Koji*; et al.

Journal of Radiation Protection and Research, 47(1), p.1 - 7, 2022/03

https://doi.org/10.14407/jrpr.2021.00276

Background: In Japan, new regulations that revise the dose limit for the lens of the eye (the lens), operational quantities, and measurement positions for the lens dose were enforced in April 2021. Based on the international safety standards, national guidelines, the results of the Radiation Safety Research Promotion Fund of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and other studies, the Working Group of Radiation Protection Standardization Committee, the Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS) developed a guideline for radiation dose monitoring for the lens. Materials and Methods: The Working Group of the JHPS discussed the criteria of non-uniform exposure and the management criteria set to not exceed the dose limit for the lens. Results and Discussion: In July 2020, the JHPS guideline was published. The guideline consists of three parts: main text, explanations, and 26 questions. In the questions, the corresponding answers were prepared, and specific examples were provided to enable similar cases to be addressed. Conclusion: With the development of guideline on radiation dose monitoring of the lens, radiation managers and workers will be able to smoothly comply with revised regulations and optimise radiation protection.

Development of guidelines on radiation protection for the lens of the eye in Japan

Yokoyama, Sumi*; Iwai, Satoshi*; Tsujimura, Norio; Hashimoto, Makoto; Yoshitomi, Hiroshi; Kato, Masahiro*; Kurosawa, Tadahiro*; Tatsuzaki, Hideo*; Sekiguchi, Hiroshi*; Koguchi, Yasuhiro*; et al.

Proceedings of 15th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-15) (Internet), 8 Pages, 2022/00

https://irpa.net/irpa15/T3.1-O0124.pdf

Analysis of the activities of the website "Question and Answer about radiation in Daily Life" after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and some lessons learned from it; To pass on this experience to the future

Kono, Takahiko; Shimo, Michikuni*; Hayakawa, Hironobu*; Taniguchi, Kazufumi*; Tanaka, Masato*; Tanaka, Hitomi*; Onoue, Yosuke*; Nagaya, Hiroshi*; Torii, Hiroyuki*; Uno, Kazuko*

Hoken Butsuri (Internet), 55(4), p.226 - 238, 2020/12

https://doi.org/10.5453/jhps.55.226

After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, artificial radionuclides such as radioactive cesium and iodine were released into the environment. It caused great anxiety not only in the vicinity of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station but also in other regions of Japan. Some members of the Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS) which is a leading academic society in Japan in the field of radiation protection volunteered to establish the website called "Question and Answer about radiation in Daily Life" just after the accident to reduce the anxiety of the residents about the health effects of radiation. After that, Committee of "Question and Answer about radiation in Daily Life" was established in August 2011 in JHPS, and this activity had been carried out under the responsibility of the society that answered with sincerity against questions from the public as specialists until February 2013. The number of questions on the website had gradually decreased as time passed; therefore, the Committee members decided to end these activities in February 2013. In this paper, following contents were shown; the activities of the Q&A website for about two years, the issues of the stance on our activities, the information related to the website activities and the analysis of Twitter data. Based on the experience and the knowledge obtained from these activities, the issues and experiences that can be utilized in the initial response to emergencies for radiation protection experts as well as other fields are presented.

Research on hydrogen safety technology utilizing the automotive catalyst

Ono, Hitomi*; Takenaka, Keisuke*; Kita, Tomoaki*; Taniguchi, Masashi*; Matsumura, Daiju; Nishihata, Yasuo; Hino, Ryutaro; Reinecke, E.-A.*; Takase, Kazuyuki*; Tanaka, Hirohisa*

E-Journal of Advanced Maintenance (Internet), 11(1), p.40 - 45, 2019/05

https://www.jsm.or.jp/ejam/Vol.11No.1/AA/AA155/AA155.html

Opinion of young researchers on the situation of adopting the ICRP new recommendation into domestic laws and on draft4.0 of international basic safety standards

Kono, Takahiko; Ogino, Haruyuki*; Yoshitomi, Hiroshi; Fujiwara, Keiko*; Moriya, Koichi*

FBNews, (410), p.7 - 12, 2011/02

http://www.c-technol.co.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/410fbn.pdf#page=8

no abstracts in English

Recent progress in the energy recovery linac project in Japan

Sakanaka, Shogo*; Akemoto, Mitsuo*; Aoto, Tomohiro*; Arakawa, Dai*; Asaoka, Seiji*; Enomoto, Atsushi*; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Furukawa, Kazuro*; Furuya, Takaaki*; Haga, Kaiichi*; et al.

Proceedings of 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '10) (Internet), p.2338 - 2340, 2010/05

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/IPAC10/papers/tupe091.pdf

Future synchrotron light source using a 5-GeV energy recovery linac (ERL) is under proposal by our Japanese collaboration team, and we are conducting R&D efforts for that. We are developing high-brightness DC photocathode guns, two types of cryomodules for both injector and main superconducting (SC) linacs, and 1.3 GHz high CW-power RF sources. We are also constructing the Compact ERL (cERL) for demonstrating the recirculation of low-emittance, high-current beams using above-mentioned critical technologies.

The Stability of gamma prime phase in Ni-based ODS superalloy under heavy ion irradiation at high temperature

Konno, Azusa; Ono, Naoko*; Ukai, Shigeharu*; Kondo, Sosuke*; Hashitomi, Okinobu*; Kimura, Akihiko*

no journal, , 

A newly developed Ni-based Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) superalloy as a candidate for the core structural materials in VHTR or GFR is studied to evaluate the stability of cuboidal-gamma prime phase under heavy irradiation in the presence of oxide particles. The ion irradiation was applied at 873K, 1073K, 1273K and the dose was 100 dpa. The gamma prime phase kept the cuboidal shape at 873K and got out of the shape at 1073K after irradiation, where these growths can be explained by the NHM model. For the result of 1273K irradiation, where huge gamma prime phase appeared in the whole irradiated area, changing Gibbs free energy by irradiation could induce the order-disorder transformation.

Irradiation effects on phase stability of precipitates in nickel based oxide dispersion-strengthened superalloys under severe conditions

Konno, Azusa; Ono, Naoko*; Ukai, Shigeharu; Kondo, Sosuke*; Hashitomi, Okinobu*; Kimura, Akihiko*

no journal, , 

It is essential to develop the structural materials in Very High-temperature Reactors (VHTR) or Gas-cooled Fast Reactors (GFR) which reactor core environment is severe as the temperature is over 1273 K and irradiation level is up to 100 dpa. In the past, Ni-based alloys which are superior to Fe-based alloys as high-temperature strength were studied because of its precipitates for reactor core materials. However, dissolves and reprecipitates at grain boundaries by irradiation at about 873 K. In order to show the suppression of this embrittlement, we newly developed a precipitation type Ni-based Oxide Dispersion-Strengthened (ODS) superalloy in which nano-sizeed oxide particles are finely dispersed. In this research, the stability of cuboidal precipitates under heavy irradiation was studied for newly developed Ni-based ODS superalloys, to explore the suitability of these as core materials. The specimen composition was equivalent to the MS4 produced by modifying the commercial superalloy CMSX10 to which the oxide particles are added.