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Watanabe, Norio; Yonomoto, Taisuke; Tamaki, Hitoshi; Nakamura, Takehiko; Maruyama, Yu
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 52(1), p.41 - 56, 2015/01
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：67.3(Nuclear Science & Technology)On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku District-off the Pacific Ocean Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami resulted in the severe core damage at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Units 1-3, involving hydrogen explosions at Units 1, 3, and 4 and the large release of radioactive materials to the environment. Four independent committees were established by the Japanese government, the Diet of Japan, the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, and TEPCO to investigate the accident and published their respective reports. Also, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency carried out an analysis of accident causes to obtain the lessons learned from the accident and made its report public. This article reviews the reports and clarifies the differences in their positions, from the technological point of view, focusing on the accident progression and causes. Moreover, the undiscussed issues are identified to provide insights useful for the near-term regulatory activities including accident investigation by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Nakamura, Makoto; Tobita, Kenji; Gulden, W.*; Watanabe, Kazuhito*; Someya, Yoji; Tanigawa, Hisashi; Sakamoto, Yoshiteru; Araki, Takao*; Matsumiya, Hisato*; Ishii, Kyoko*; et al.
Fusion Engineering and Design, 89(9-10), p.2028 - 2032, 2014/10
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：70.2(Nuclear Science & Technology)After the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident, a social need for assuring safety of fusion energy has grown gradually in the Japanese (JA) fusion research community. DEMO safety research has been launched as a part of BA DEMO Design Activities (BA-DDA). This paper reports progress in the fusion DEMO safety research conducted under BA-DDA. Safety requirements and evaluation guidelines have been, first of all, established based on those established in the Japanese ITER site invitation activities. The amounts of radioactive source terms and energies that can mobilize such source terms have been assessed for a reference DEMO, in which the blanket technology is based on the Japanese fusion technology R&D programme. Reference event sequences expected in DEMO have been analyzed based on the master logic diagram and functional FMEA techniques. Accident initiators of particular importance in DEMO have been selected based on the event sequence analysis.
Nakamura, Makoto; Tobita, Kenji; Someya, Yoji; Tanigawa, Hisashi; Gulden, W.*; Sakamoto, Yoshiteru; Araki, Takao*; Watanabe, Kazuhito*; Matsumiya, Hisato*; Ishii, Kyoko*; et al.
Plasma and Fusion Research (Internet), 9, p.1405139_1 - 1405139_11, 2014/10
Key aspects of the safety study of a water-cooled fusion DEMO reactor is reported. Safety requirements, dose target, DEMO plant model and confinement strategy of the safety study are briefly introduced. The internal hazard of a water-cooled DEMO, i.e. radioactive inventories, stored energies that can mobilize these inventories and accident initiators and scenarios, are evaluated. It is pointed out that the enthalpy in the first wall/blanket cooling loops, the decay heat and the energy potentially released by the Be-steam chemical reaction are of special concern for the water-cooled DEMO. An ex-vessel loss-of-coolant of the first wall/blanket cooling loop is also quantitatively analyzed. The integrity of the building against the ex-VV LOCA is discussed.
Watanabe, Norio; Yonomoto, Taisuke; Tamaki, Hitoshi; Nakamura, Takehiko; Maruyama, Yu
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai Wabun Rombunshi, 12(2), p.113 - 127, 2013/06
On March 11, 2011, the Tohoku District - off the Pacific Ocean Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami resulted in the severe core damage at the TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station Units 1-3, involving hydrogen explosions at Units 1, 3, and 4 and the large release of radioactive materials to the environment. The four independent committees were established by the Government, the Diet of Japan and the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation as well as TEPCO to investigate the accident and published their respective reports. Also, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency carried out the analysis of accident causes to obtain the lessons learned from the accident and made its report public. This article reviews the reports and clarifies the differences in their positions, from the technological point of view, focusing on the accident progression and causes. As well, the undiscussed issues are identified to provide insights useful for the near-term regulatory activities including accident investigation by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Hirano, Masashi; Yonomoto, Taisuke; Ishigaki, Masahiro; Watanabe, Norio; Maruyama, Yu; Shibamoto, Yasuteru; Watanabe, Tadashi; Moriyama, Kiyofumi
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 49(1), p.1 - 17, 2012/01
Times Cited Count：97 Percentile：91.67(Nuclear Science & Technology)An unprecedented earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plants on 11 March 2011. Although extensive efforts have been continuing on investigations into the causes and consequences of the accident, and the Japanese Government has presented a comprehensive report on the accident in the IAEA Ministerial Conference held in June 2011, there is still much to be clarified on what happened during the accident and why. This article aims at identifying what should be clarified further about the progression of the accident at Units 1-3 through the review and analysis of information released from Tokyo Electric Power Company and government authorities. It also discusses the safety issues raised by the accident based on the insights gained, in order to contribute to establishing a new framework that pursues continuous improvement toward the highest standards of safety that can reasonably be achieved.
Kukita, Yutaka; Nakamura, Hideo; Watanabe, Tadashi; ; Yonomoto, Taisuke; Suzuki, Mitsuhiro; Kumamaru, Hiroshige; Anoda, Yoshinari
NEA/CSNI/R(91)13, 620 Pages, 1992/02
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Asano, Shusaku*; Maki, Taisuke*; Mae, Kazuhiro*; Sano, Yuichi; Kawanobe, Kazunori*; Sakamoto, Atsushi; Okamura, Nobuo; Watanabe, Masayuki; Suzuki, Hideya; Matsumura, Tatsuro
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Mass transfer coefficients in solvent extraction processes using new extractants developed for MA recovery were evaluated using microdevice. It could reduce the amount of solution drastically for evaluating mass transfer coefficients compared to existing evaluation methods using Nitsch cell etc.
Watanabe, Taisuke; Sakoda, Akihiro; Miyauchi, Toru; Kanzaki, Norie; Tanaka, Hiroshi
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