Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2022

Kokubun, Yuji; Nakada, Akira; Seya, Natsumi; Koike, Yuko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Yamada, Ryohei*; Uchiyama, Rei; Yamashita, Daichi; Nagai, Shinji; et al.

JAEA-Review 2023-046, 164 Pages, 2024/03

JAEA-Review-2023-046.pdf:4.2MB

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories conducts environmental radiation monitoring around the reprocessing plant in accordance with the "Safety Regulations for Reprocessing Plant of JAEA, Part IV: Environmental Monitoring". This report summarizes the results of environmental radiation monitoring conducted during the period from April 2022 to March 2023 and the results of dose calculations for the surrounding public due to the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere and ocean. In the results of the above environmental radiation monitoring, many items were affected by radioactive materials emitted from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (changed to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. on April 1, 2016), which occurred in March 2011. Also included as appendices are an overview of the environmental monitoring plan, an overview of measurement methods, measurement results and their changes over time, meteorological statistics results, radioactive waste release status, and an evaluation of the data which deviated of the normal range.

Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2020

Nakada, Akira; Nakano, Masanao; Kanai, Katsuta; Seya, Natsumi; Nishimura, Shusaku; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Futagawa, Kazuo; Yamada, Ryohei; Uchiyama, Rei; et al.

JAEA-Review 2021-062, 163 Pages, 2022/02

JAEA-Review-2021-062.pdf:2.87MB

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 2020 to March 2021. 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 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 FY2016

Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Mizutani, Tomoko; Nemoto, Masashi; Tobita, Keiji; Hosomi, Kenji; Nagaoka, Mika; Hokama, Tomonori; Nishimura, Tomohiro; Koike, Yuko; et al.

JAEA-Review 2017-028, 177 Pages, 2018/01

JAEA-Review-2017-028.pdf:3.61MB

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.

Annual report on the environmental radiation monitoring around the Tokai Reprocessing Plant FY2014

Watanabe, Hitoshi; Nakano, Masanao; Fujita, Hiroki; Takeyasu, Masanori; Mizutani, Tomoko; Isozaki, Tokuju*; Nagaoka, Mika; Hokama, Tomonori; Yokoyama, Hiroya; Nishimura, Tomohiro; et al.

JAEA-Review 2015-034, 175 Pages, 2016/03

JAEA-Review-2015-034.pdf:8.13MB

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 2014 to March 2015. In this report, some data include the influence of the accidental release from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in March 2011.

Reconstruction of Holocene environmental changes in the Kiso-Ibi-Nagara compound river delta, Nobi Plain, central Japan, by diatom analyses of drilling cores

Saegusa, Yoshie*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Ogami, Takashi*; Kashima, Kaoru*; Sasao, Eiji

Quaternary International, 230(1-2), p.67 - 77, 2011/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.013

We reconstructed Holocene environmental changes by analyzing diatom assemblages of four drilling cores from the Nobi Plain, central Japan. We identified five diatom assemblage zones: (1) freshwater species dominant; (2) increase of marine and brackish-marine species, indicating transgression; (3) marine species dominant; (4) increase of freshwater species, indicating marine regression as a result of delta progradation; and (5) freshwater species dominant, in ascending order. It became clear that the shoreline migrated landward (transgression) faster than it migrated seaward (regression) by the comparison the diatom assemblages and lithological units. The transgressive diatom assemblage changes (decrease in marine-brackish water species) took up to 1000 years, whereas regressive changes required only a few hundred years. Diatom analysis is useful for reconstructing not only Holocene sea-level changes and sedimentary environments but also local geographic effects.

Composition dependence of magnetic and magnetotransport properties in C-Co granular thin films

Sugai, Isamu*; Sakai, Seiji; Matsumoto, Yoshihiro; Naramoto, Hiroshi*; Mitani, Seiji*; Takanashi, Koki; Maeda, Yoshihito

Journal of Applied Physics, 108(6), p.063920_1 - 063920_7, 2010/09

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3471800

Development of the Kiso river delta during the last 10,000 years based on analyses of sedimentary cores and C datings

Ogami, Takashi*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Fujiwara, Osamu*; Yamaguchi, Masaaki*; Sasao, Eiji

Chigaku Zasshi, 118(4), p.665 - 685, 2009/00

https://doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.118.665

The depositional process of the latest Pleistocene to Holocene shallow marine and fluvial sequences is investigated by using five drill cores from the Kiso river delta, central Japan. Based on facies analysis, the sediments were classified into 5 units; A: basal gravel, B: fluvial to intertidal sand and silt, C: transgressive lag deposit, prodelta mud or sandy silt, D: delta-front-slope sandy silt or sand, delta-front-platform sand, E: delta-plain to fluvial sand and silt. Detailed age-depth curves of each cores are reconstructed based on 107 AMS C ages. The curves are divided into four sections; I: mainly consists of unit B with rapid accumulation (7.3-21.4 mm/yr), II: mainly consists of unit C with moderate accumulation (2.4-2.8 mm/yr), III: mainly consists of unit D with rapid accumulation (6.7-17.8 mm/yr), IV: consists of unit D and E with moderate accumulation (1.3-3.9 mm/yr). The section boundaries of I/II and II/III reflect inundation into the bay and achievement of progradational delta-front slope, respectively. The expanding rate of the bay is 10 m/yr during 10,200-7,900 cal yrs BP. The progradation rates of the delta are 3-4 m/yr (6.500-4,100 cal yrs BP), 5 m/yr (4,100-1,300 cal yrs BP), 10 m/yr (1,300 cal yrs BP to the present). These indicate the transition from transgression to regression occurred between 7,800 to 7,300 cal yrs BP. The geological cross section along the Kiso river coupled with isochrones indicates following history. (1) 10,000-7,280 cal yrs BP (K-Ah horizon): During the expansion of the bay, onlap of unit C on unit B is visible, and unit C overlapped all the core sites. (2) 7,280 cal yrs BP to present: Isochrones younger than 6,500 cal yrs BP are similar each other and cross unit boundaries of C/D and D/E. This demonstrates units C, D and E are contemporaneous heterotopic facies formed by progradational delta.

Giant tunnel magnetoresistance in codeposited fullerene-cobalt films in the low bias-voltage regime

Sakai, Seiji; Sugai, Isamu; Mitani, Seiji*; Takanashi, Koki; Matsumoto, Yoshihiro; Naramoto, Hiroshi*; Avramov, P.; Okayasu, Satoru; Maeda, Yoshihito

Applied Physics Letters, 91(24), p.242104_1 - 242104_3, 2007/12

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2822397

Design performance of front steering-type electron cyclotron launcher for ITER

Takahashi, Koji; Imai, Tsuyoshi; Kobayashi, Noriyuki*; Sakamoto, Keishi; Kasugai, Atsushi; Hayakawa, Atsuro*; Mori, Seiji*; Mori, Kensuke*

Fusion Science and Technology, 47(1), p.1 - 15, 2005/01

https://doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A594

An applicability of a front steering type EC launcher to a fusion reactor is described with the design and thermal, electromagnetic and nuclear analysis using the ITER design conditions. Maximum stress of the support keys of the front shield module, the welds of the keys and the mirror shaft induced by electromagnetic force are 85.5MPa and 34.1MPa and 22MPa, respectively, which are less than 1.5Sm of stainless steel(205MPa). Maximum thermal stress in the front shield module and the mirror, which are 249MPa and 350MPa, respectively, are obtained at the inner surface of a stainless steel cooling tube. The stresses are less 3Sm of stainless steel at 200C(410MPa). The annual neutron fluence and the dose rate at the vacuum window(closure plate) are estimated to be 1010 n/cm/yr and 45Sv/h, respectively that satisfy the shield criteria of the ITER. It appears that the design of the front steering type EC launcher is applicable to an ITER grade reactor.