Annual report on the effluent control of low level liquid waste in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories FY2022

Kokubun, Yuji; Nakada, Akira; Seya, Natsumi; Nagaoka, Mika; Koike, Yuko; Kubota, Tomohiro; Hirao, Moe; Yoshii, Hideki*; Otani, Kazunori*; Hiyama, Yoshinori*; et al.

JAEA-Review 2023-052, 118 Pages, 2024/03

JAEA-Review-2023-052.pdf:3.67MB

Based on the regulations (the safety regulation of Tokai Reprocessing Plant, the safety regulation of nuclear fuel material usage facilities, the radiation safety rule, the regulation about prevention from radiation hazards due to radioisotopes, which are related with the nuclear regulatory acts, the local agreement concerning with safety and environment conservation around nuclear facilities, the water pollution control law, and by law of Ibaraki Prefecture), the effluent control of liquid waste discharged from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories of Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been performed. This report describes the effluent control results of the liquid waste in the fiscal year 2022. In this period, the concentrations and the quantities of the radioactivity in liquid waste discharged from the reprocessing plant, the plutonium fuel fabrication facilities, and the other nuclear fuel material usage facilities were much lower than the limits authorized by the above regulations.

Thermally altered subsurface material of asteroid (162173) Ryugu

Kitazato, Kohei*; Milliken, R. E.*; Iwata, Takahiro*; Abe, Masanao*; Otake, Makiko*; Matsuura, Shuji*; Takagi, Yasuhiko*; Nakamura, Tomoki*; Hiroi, Takahiro*; Matsuoka, Moe*; et al.

Nature Astronomy (Internet), 5(3), p.246 - 250, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01271-2

Here we report observations of Ryugu's subsurface material by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS3) on the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Reflectance spectra of excavated material exhibit a hydroxyl (OH) absorption feature that is slightly stronger and peak-shifted compared with that observed for the surface, indicating that space weathering and/or radiative heating have caused subtle spectral changes in the uppermost surface. However, the strength and shape of the OH feature still suggests that the subsurface material experienced heating above 300 C, similar to the surface. In contrast, thermophysical modeling indicates that radiative heating does not increase the temperature above 200 C at the estimated excavation depth of 1 m, even if the semimajor axis is reduced to 0.344 au. This supports the hypothesis that primary thermal alteration occurred due to radiogenic and/or impact heating on Ryugu's parent body.

Reverse Monte Carlo simulation approach on the amorphous structure of CN

Ferdows, M.; Suzuya, Kentaro; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kohara, Shinji*; Kodama, Katsuaki; Yamamoto, Kazunori; Shamoto, Shinichi; Hirata, Takamichi*; Omote, Kenji*; Kasama, Yasuhiko*; et al.

Abstracts of 7th International Symposium on Advanced Materials in Asia-Pacific (NT 2010)/JAIST International Symposium on Nano Technology 2010 (7th ISAMAP), p.25 - 28, 2010/09

We performed Reverse Monte Carlo analysis (RMCA) to study amorphous structure of a heterofullerene, CN by using pulsed neutron powder diffraction data. The scattering function S(Q) shows that the structure is amorphous, while the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) shows that the local structure is similar to that of C. Obtained structures strongly depend on the initial models. Problems for this RMCA method are discussed.

Does Gd@C have an anomalous endohedral structure? Synthesis and single crystal X-ray structure of the carbene adduct

Akasaka, Takeshi*; Kono, Takayoshi*; Takematsu, Yuji*; Nikawa, Hidefumi*; Nakahodo, Tsukasa*; Wakahara, Takatsugu*; Ishitsuka, Midori*; Tsuchiya, Takahiro*; Maeda, Yutaka*; Liu, M. T. H.*; et al.

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(39), p.12840 - 12841, 2008/10

https://doi.org/10.1021/ja802156n

We report here the results on single crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis of the Gd@C carbene adduct (Gd@C(ad), Ad=adamantylidene). The Gd atom in Gd@C(Ad) is located at an off-centered position near a hexagonal ring in the C2v-C cage, as found for M@C (M = Sc and La) and La@C(Ad). Theoretical calculation also confirms the position of the Gd atom in the X-ray crystal structure.

TEM studies of nanocarbons and nanodiamonds (ND); Mechanical milling of ND and Cu

Yamamoto, Kazunori; Taguchi, Tomitsugu; Hanada, Kotaro*; Osawa, Eiji*; Inakuma, Masayasu*; Livramento, V.*; Correia, J, B.*; Shohoji, Nobumitsu*

Diamond and Related Materials, 16(12), p.2058 - 2062, 2007/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2007.05.007

Nano-sized polymorphs of carbon continue to attract much attention of scientists and provide new targets of examination with transmission electron microscope (TEM). We present here TEM images of a number of nanocarbons which played critical roles in some stage of their R&D, such as mechanical alloying of Cu and nanodiamond, diamond from soot, and short carbon nanocylinders by milling with microbeads. Emphasis is placed on nanodiamonds.

Analysis of ground water from boreholes, river water and precipitation in the Underground Research Laboratory Project

Kunimaru, Takanori; Shibano, Kazunori; Kurikami, Hiroshi; Tomura, Goji; Hara, Minoru; Yamamoto, Hajime*

JAEA-Data/Code 2007-015, 113 Pages, 2007/11

JAEA-Data-Code-2007-015.pdf:6.62MB

In the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (URL) Project, ground water from boreholes, river water and precipitation have been preiodically analyzed for the environmental monitoring since the fiscal year 2001. This report shows the data set of water chemistry since the fiscal year 2001 to the fiscal year 2006.

Synthesis and evaluation of BPA-Gd-DTPA complex as an MRI contrast agent and as a carrier for neutron capture therapy

Takahashi, Kazunori*; Nakamura, Hiroyuki*; Furumoto, Shozo*; Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi; Matsumura, Akira*; Fukuda, Hiroshi*; Yamamoto, Yoshinori*

Proceedings of 11th World Congress on Neutron Capture Therapy (ISNCT-11) (CD-ROM), 1 Pages, 2004/10

We synthesized a BPA-Gd-DTPA compound, as a carrier for neutron capture therapy to be used for MRI contrast media. Pinanediol was used as the protective group for B(OH)2 group of BPA, and the BPA unit was connected to the DTPA framework through an amide bond. The biodistribution studies were performed after injection of the compound into AH109A hepatoma bearing Donryu rats. The concentrations of Gd and boron were measured by prompt g-ray analyses. The tumor uptakes (% ID/g) were 1% and 0.3% at 20 min and 60 min after injection, respectively and were higher than that of carborane-Gd-DTPA, which we previously reported. However, liver and kidney uptake was very high and tumor/blood ratio was very low (0.38) compared to that of BPA itself (ca. 3.0). Alfa autoradiogram of a tumor bearing rat showed higher concentration of boron in the tumor compared to surrounding muscle and very high in the intestine. Although tumor selectivity of the compound was higher than that of carborane-Gd-DTPA, further studies of the synthesis and in vivo evaluation of better binary compounds are continuing.

Improvement for simulation system for emergency release of radio active substance

Miyauchi, Kazuya*; Yamamoto, Asao*; Yatake, Yoichi*; Kasuya, Kazunori*

JNC TJ4440 2002-001, 197 Pages, 2002/03

JNC-TJ4440-2002-001.pdf:8.54MB

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Wada, Yukio; Funasaka, Hideyuki; Myochin, Munetaka; Yamamoto, Kazunori; Harada, Hideo; ;

PNC TN8100 96-005, 16 Pages, 1996/01

PNC-TN8100-96-005.pdf:1.6MB

no abstracts in English

Synthesis of lanthanum compound encapsulated within carbon nanoparticles

Funasaka, Hideyuki; Sugiyama, Kenji; Yamamoto, Kazunori; Takahashi, Takeshi

Chemical Physics Letters, 236(3), p.277 - 284, 1995/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(95)00198-D

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