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Nakashima, Hiroshi; Nakamura, Takemi; Kobayashi, Hitoshi*; Tanaka, Susumu*; Kumada, Hiroaki*
NEA/NSC/R(2021)2 (Internet), p.142 - 151, 2021/12
Aiming of development of facilities for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) that can be installed in hospitals, an accelerator-based BNCT facility is being developed at the Ibaraki Neutron Medical Research Center under a collaboration among the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, the University of Tsukuba, and other institutions. It consists of a proton accelerator, having a maximum beam power of 80 kW, and a target, moderator, collimator and shield (TMCS) system. For the design concept, to satisfy the BNCT beam conditions and achieve a low activation, the radiation behavior in the TMCS system was simulated by the Monte Carlo method and this system configuration was optimized accordingly. In addition, the radiation estimation of the TMCS system was verified via several experiments and its applicability for BNCT was proved. This report reviews the estimation and validation studies for the development of the accelerator-based BNCT facility.
Kim, B. K.*; Tan, L.*; Sakasegawa, Hideo; Parish, C. M.*; Zhong, W.*; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu*; Kato, Yutai*
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 545, p.152634_1 - 152634_12, 2021/03
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：15.7(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Ando, Masami; Nozawa, Takashi; Hirose, Takanori; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Wakai, Eiichi; Stoller, R. E.*; Myers, J.*
Fusion Science and Technology, 68(3), p.648 - 651, 2015/10
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：32.95(Nuclear Science & Technology)Pressurized tubes of F82H and B-doped F82H irradiated at 573 and 673 K up to 
6dpa have been measured by a laser profilometer. The irradiation creep strain in F82H irradiated at 573 and 673 K was almost linearly dependent on the effective stress level for stresses below 260 MPa and 170 MPa, respectively. The creep strain of 
BN-F82H was similar to that of F82H IEA at each effective stress level except 294 MPa at 573 K irradiation. For 673 K irradiation, the creep strain of some BN-F82H tubes was larger than that of F82H tubes. It is suggested that a swelling caused in each BN-F82H because small helium babbles might be produced by a reaction of B(n, 
) 
Li.
Furuya, Kazuyuki; Wakai, Eiichi; Miyamoto, Kenji*; Akiba, Masato; Sugimoto, Masayoshi
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 367-370(1), p.494 - 499, 2007/08
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)A partial mock-up of a breeding blanket structure made of F82H steel has been successfully fabricated. In this study, microstructural observation and EDX analysis of the HIP interfaces were performed, and effects of irradiation on mechanical properties of the HIP-bonded region were also examined. Neutron irradiation was performed up to about 2 dpa at about 523 K. After the irradiation, tensile test was performed at temperatures of 295 and 523 K. The HIP interfaces possessed many precipitates, and enriched peak spectrum of chromium was detected from the precipitates. In addition, aspect of the spectrum was qualitatively equivalent to that of M
C
in grain boundaries of F82H steel. In result, the HIP boundary has many MC which were generally seen in grain boundaries of F82H steel. Rupture did not occur in the HIP interface. In result, it can be mentioned that bondability is maintained under the irradiation and testing conditions. The strength and elongation of the HIP-bonded region decreased somewhat in comparison with the results of an IEA standard steel.
Tobita, Kenji; Nishio, Satoshi; Enoeda, Mikio; Sato, Masayasu; Isono, Takaaki; Sakurai, Shinji; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Sato, Satoshi; Suzuki, Satoshi; Ando, Masami; et al.
Fusion Engineering and Design, 81(8-14), p.1151 - 1158, 2006/02
Times Cited Count：124 Percentile：99.05(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Nishio, Satoshi; Omori, Junji*; Kuroda, Toshimasa*; Tobita, Kenji; Enoeda, Mikio; Tsuru, Daigo; Hirose, Takanori; Sato, Satoshi; Kawamura, Yoshinori; Nakamura, Hirofumi; et al.
Fusion Engineering and Design, 81(8-14), p.1271 - 1276, 2006/02
Times Cited Count：20 Percentile：78.77(Nuclear Science & Technology)The design guideline for the blanket is decided to meet the mission of the DEMO plant which is expected to use technologies to be proven by 2020 and present an economical prospect of fusion energy in the operational time of the reactor. To moderate the technological extrapolation, the structural material of reduced activation ferritic steel (F82H), ceramic tritium breeder of Li
TiO
and neutron multiplier of Be are introduced. To improve the economical aspect, the coolant material of the supercritical water with inlet/outlet temperatures of 280/510
C, coolant pressure of 25 MPa is chosen. Resultantly the thermal efficiency of 41% is achieved. To obtain higher plasma performance, MHD instabilities suppressing shell structure is adopted with structural compatibility to the blanket structure. To meet higher plant availability requirement (more than 75%), the hot cell maintenance approach is selected for the replaceable power core components.
Okubo, Nariaki; Wakai, Eiichi; Matsukawa, Shingo; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Sawai, Tomotsugu; Jitsukawa, Shiro; Onuki, Somei*
Materials Transactions, 46(8), p.1779 - 1782, 2005/08
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：16.26(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Okubo, Nariaki; Wakai, Eiichi; Matsukawa, Shingo*; Furuya, Kazuyuki; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Jitsukawa, Shiro
Materials Transactions, 46(2), p.193 - 195, 2005/02
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：16.26(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Ando, Masami; Wakai, Eiichi; Sawai, Tomotsugu; Matsukawa, Shingo; Naito, Akira*; Jitsukawa, Shiro; Oka, Keiichiro*; Tanaka, Teruyuki*; Onuki, Somei*
JAERI-Review 2004-025, TIARA Annual Report 2003, p.159 - 161, 2004/11
The objectives of this study are to evaluate radiation hardening on ion-irradiated F82H up to 100 dpa and to examine the extra component of radiation hardening due to implanted helium atoms (up to 3000 appmHe) in F82H under ratio of 0, 10, 100 appmHe/dpa.The ion-beam irradiation experiment was carried out at the TIARA facility of JAERI. Specimens were irradiated at 633 K by 10.5 MeV Fe ions with/without 1.05 MeV He ions. Micro-indentation tests were performed at loads to penetrate about 0.40 mm in the irradiated specimens using an UMIS-2000. The results are summarized as follows:1) As a result of the single irradiated F82H, the micro-hardness tended to increase about 30 dpa. 2) The extra radiation hardening was obviously caused by co-implanted helium atoms more than 1000 appm in F82H irradiated at 633 K. 3) In the dual-beam (100 appmHe/dpa) irradiated microstructure, nano-voids and fine defects were observed. It is suggested that the formation of nano-voids causes the extra radiation hardening by helium co-implantation.
Ishiyama, Shintaro
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai Wabun Rombunshi, 3(3), p.288 - 297, 2004/09
Target plate mode of divertor device for fusion reactor was fabricated using low activated and light material, Si/xSiC metal matrix composite and high strength and thermal conductive SiC. This model was exposed under 5MW/m
30sec high heat flux and showed very good cooling performance and no damage was found after this test.
Department of Materials Science; Department of Fusion Engineering Research (Tokai Site)
JAERI-Review 2004-018, 97 Pages, 2004/08
JAERI-Review-2004-018.pdf:18.92MB
Extensive efforts for evaluating the irradiation performances of a reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel (RAF/M) of F82H* and other several RAF/Ms have been made in recent several years. They are, examinations of the effects of neutron irradiation on (1) Ductile to brittle transition temperature (DBTT) up to a damage level of 20 dpa to explore lower temperature limit, (2) Enhanced He effect on DBTT shift for Ni/B doped heats (isotopic tailoring method was used for B doping), (3) Susceptibility to environmentally assisted cracking by the slow strain rate tensile tests (SSRT) in a high temperature pressurized water and (4) Flow stress-plastic strain relation obtained by measuring the profile of the specimen during tensile testing, together with the activities of (5) the development of the test methods after neutron irradiation and (6) other supporting researches. Results are summarized in the present report. They clearly indicate the good applicability of RAF/Ms to fusion machines.
Sugimoto, Masayoshi; Takeuchi, Hiroshi
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part1), p.198 - 201, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：29.18(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)IFMIF is an accelerator-based intense neutron source for developing fusion reactor materials, and a stable and continuous operation is a primary importance. The radioactivity produced by the beam loss prolongs the cooling time before maintenance and results in a potential limit to the availability. The materials selection is important for minimizing the total radioactivity produced by ion beam and neutrons, after about one day cooling time in advance of hands-on maintenance. For the major parts, Cu for cavity and Al for beam duct, the beam loss needs to be reduced below 5nA/m. Such a low loss can be realized by suppressing the beam halo and by using the scrapers made from high-Z material, Ta, to cut the tail of beam. The insertion points of the scrapers are determined from the beam size evolution along the accelerator and the available room for radiation shielding around them. The reduction of the radioactivity after the whole lifetime of facility is another issue and the possibility to use low activation materials coating for cavity and beam duct is presented.
Hirose, Takanori; Shiba, Kiyoyuki; Sawai, Tomotsugu; Jitsukawa, Shiro; Akiba, Masato
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part1), p.324 - 327, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：55 Percentile：94.79(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel, RAFs is the leading candidates for the structural materials of breeding blankets. HIP is examined as a near-net-shape fabrication process for this structure. The HIP requires heating above the normalizing temperature and the final microstructural features depends on the HIP processing conditions. Conventional HIP process caused a prior-austenite grain (PAG) coarsening of RAFs and subsequent increase of ductile brittle transition temperature. Japanese RAFs F82H and its modified steels were investigated by metallurgical method after isochronal heat treatment up to 1473K simulating HIP equivalent thermal hysteresis. Although Conventional F82H IEA heat showed significant grain growth after conventional solid HIP conditions (1313K 2hr.), F82H with 0.1wt.% tantalum kept fine grain after the same heat treatment. On the other hands, conventional RAF/Ms with coarse grain were recovered by the post HIP normalizing at temperature below TaC dissolution temperature. This process can refine the PAG size of F82H more than ASTM grain size number 7.
Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Hashimoto, Naoyuki*; Sakasegawa, Hideo*; Klueh, R. L.*; Sokolov, M. A.*; Shiba, Kiyoyuki; Jitsukawa, Shiro; Koyama, Akira*
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(1), p.283 - 288, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：19 Percentile：75.17(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Reduced-activation ferritic/martensitic steels (RAFs) were developed as candidate structural materials for fusion power plants. In a previous study, it was reported that ORNL9Cr-2WVTa and JLF-1 (Fe-9Cr-2W-V-Ta-N) steels showed smaller ductile-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) shifts compared to IEA modified F82H (Fe-8Cr-2W-V-Ta) after neutron irradiation up to 5 dpa at 573K. This difference in DBTT shift could not be interpreted as an effect of irradiation hardening, and it is also hard to be convinced that this difference was simply due to a Cr concentration difference. To clarify the mechanisms of the difference in Charpy impact property between these steels, various microstructure analyses were performed.
Ogawa, Hiroaki; Yamauchi, Yuji*; Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Kawashima, Hisato; Sato, Masayasu; Shinohara, Koji; Kamiya, Kensaku; Kasai, Satoshi; Kusama, Yoshinori; Yamaguchi, Kaoru*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part1), p.678 - 682, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：29.18(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Shinohara, Koji; Kamiya, Kensaku; Kawashima, Hisato; Sato, Masayasu; Kurita, Genichi; Bakhtiari, M.; Ogawa, Hiroaki; Hoshino, Katsumichi; Kasai, Satoshi; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(1), p.721 - 725, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：45.06(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Shiba, Kiyoyuki; Enoeda, Mikio; Jitsukawa, Shiro
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part1), p.243 - 247, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：53 Percentile：94.41(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Miwa, Yukio; Jitsukawa, Shiro; Yonekawa, Minoru
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part2), p.1098 - 1102, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：58.46(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Fatigue properties were examined on a reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel, and preliminary results were presented. F82H steel was irradiated at 523 K to 3.8 dpa, and then fatigue-tested at 298-573 K in vacuum with total strain range of 0.4-1.0%. Effect of irradiation on fatigue lives was observed on test at 298 K with total strain range of 0.4%. The fatigue life of irradiated specimen was reduced to about 1/7 of unirradiated specimen. The reduction of the fatigue life was attributed to the occurrence of channel fracture. Effect of test temperature was discussed.
Wakai, Eiichi; Taguchi, Tomitsugu; Yamamoto, Toshio*; Kato, Yoshiaki; Takada, Fumiki
Materials Transactions, 45(8), p.2638 - 2640, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：12.41(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Kurihara, Ryoichi
JAERI-Tech 2004-052, 39 Pages, 2004/07
The problems in the thermal structural design of the plasma facing component such as the blanket first wall and the divertor plate which receives very high heat flux were examined in the design of the fusion power reactors. Compact high fusion power reactor must give high heat flux and high-speed neutron flux from the plasma to the first wall and the divertor plate. In this environmental situation, the micro cracks should be generated in material of the first wall. Structural integrity of the first wall would be very low during the operation of the reactor, if those micro-cracks grow in a crack having significant size by the fatigue or the creep. The crack penetration in the first wall can be a factor which threatens the safety of the fusion power reactor. This paper summarizes the problems on the structural integrity in the first wall made of the SiC/SiC composite material or the ferritic steel.
