Development of radiation resistant monitoring system in light water reactor

Takeuchi, Tomoaki; Otsuka, Noriaki; Nakano, Hiroko; Iida, Tatsuya*; Ozawa, Osamu*; Shibagaki, Taro*; Komanome, Hirohisa*; Tsuchiya, Kunihiko

QST-M-16; QST Takasaki Annual Report 2017, P. 67, 2019/03

https://repo.qst.go.jp/records/74834

no abstracts in English

Development of technologies of cutting and decontamination employing high power fiber laser

Toyama, Shinichi; Minehara, Eisuke*

Dekomisshoningu Giho, (56), p.55 - 65, 2017/09

Development of the steel cutting technology which employs high power fiber laser for the industrial applicability of the laser technology has been carried out at The Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center (WERC). At present, the laser technologies for dismantling and decontamination are concurrently being developed to the application measure of nuclear dismantling for domestic nuclear power plants in the future. Dismantling of nuclear facilities is now under the development in the world. The necessity of the technology is increasing and the development is strongly expected. Beside the relative easiness to handle compared with other laser system, suppression of production of secondary radioactive waste and dose exposure can be realized by the dramatic improvement by excelled thermal density of fiber laser. This paper provides recent results from cutting technology for thick steels aiming disassembling nuclear pressure vessel, and decontamination machine technology which works under high radiation dose, explaining the results from cutting experiment of steels and the actual equipment and from the radiation resistance experiment for component devices.

Development of high-performance monitoring system under severe accident condition

Takeuchi, Tomoaki; Tsuchiya, Kunihiko; Komanome, Hirohisa*; Miura, Kuniaki*; Ishihara, Masahiro

Proceedings of 2017 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2017) (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2017/04

After the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi (1F) Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the Japanese Government referred to "Enhancement of instrumentation to identify the status of the reactors and PCVs", in the report of Japanese government to the IAEA ministerial conference in June 2011. In response to these provisions, a research and development of a monitoring system for NPPs situations during severe accidents started in November 2012. The objectives of the R&D are composed of radiation-resistant monitoring camera, radiation-resistant in-water transmission system, and heat-resistant signal cable. For all the three objectives, the elemental technologies have been already developed and now trial system are being fabricated and tested under simulated conditions of severe accidents. The results will enable us to determine the basic specifications of the systems and to provide the information about application limits for users.

Inspection and repair techniques in the reactor vessel of the experimental fast reactor Joyo; Observation technical development in a reactor vessel of the fast reactor, 3

Okuda, Eiji; Sasaki, Jun; Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Takamatsu, Misao; Nagai, Akinori

JAEA-Technology 2016-017, 20 Pages, 2016/07

JAEA-Technology-2016-017.pdf:5.75MB

In-Vessel Observation (IVO) techniques for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors (SFRs) in service are important for confirming their safety and integrity. Since IVO equipment for an SFR has to be designed to tolerate the severe conditions (high temperature, high radiation dose and limited access route), fiberscopes used to be used in previous IVO for SFRs. However, in order to attain an IVO with higher quality and resolution, IVO using a radiation resistant camera was conducted in the fast experimental reactor Joyo and obtained some results. The demonstration results provided valuable insights for use in further improving and verifying IVO techniques in SFRs.

Gamma irradiation effects of image sensor for radiation-resistant camera

Takeuchi, Tomoaki; Otsuka, Noriaki; Tsuchiya, Kunihiko; Tanaka, Shigeo*; Ozawa, Osamu*; Komanome, Hirohisa*; Watanabe, Takashi*; Ueno, Shunji*

Nihon Hozen Gakkai Dai-13-Kai Gakujutsu Koenkai Yoshishu, p.391 - 394, 2016/07

no abstracts in English

Model magnet development of D1 beam separation dipole for the HL-LHC upgrade

Nakamoto, Tatsushi*; Sugano, Michinaka*; Xu, Q.*; Kawamata, Hiroshi*; Enomoto, Shun*; Higashi, Norio*; Idesaki, Akira; Iio, Masami*; Ikemoto, Yukio*; Iwasaki, Ruri*; et al.

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 25(3), p.4000505_1 - 4000505_5, 2015/06

https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2014.2361404

Recently, development of superconducting magnet system with high radiation resistance has been demanded for application in accelerator facilities such as CERN LHC. In order to realize superconducting magnet system with high radiation resistance, it is necessary to develop electrical insulator with high radiation resistance because the electrical insulator is made of organic materials whose radiation resistance is inferior to that of inorganic materials. We developed a glass fiber reinforced plastic with bismaleimide-triazine resin. The developed material showed excellent radiation resistance; the material evolved gases of 510 mol/g and maintained flexural strength of 640MPa (90% of initial value).

High proton radiation tolerance of InAsSb quantum-well-based micro-Hall sensors

Abderrahmane, A.*; Ko, P. J.*; Okada, Hiroshi*; Sato, Shinichiro; Oshima, Takeshi; Shibasaki, Ichiro*; Sandhu, A.*

IEEE Electron Device Letters, 35(12), p.1305 - 1307, 2014/12

https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2014.2359879

Tolerance of AlInSb/InAsSb/AlInSb heterostructures quantum-well-based micro-Hall sensors against proton irradiation of 380 keV and proton fluence in the range 10 and 10 (proton/cm) is reported. Defects and deep levels induced by proton irradiation into the heterostructures caused decreases in the mobility of the micro-Hall sensors. Degradation of the magnetic sensitivity started at a proton fluence of 10 (proton/cm) and continued with increasing proton fluence. The variation of the micro-Hall sensors sensitivity was minimal in low doped AlInSb/InAsSb/AlInSb heterostructure quantum wells. These micro-Hall sensors were operable even at proton fluence of 10 (proton/cm), which makes these devices suitable for space applications with lifetime of thousands of years in the outer space.

Gamma-ray irradiation experiment of turbo molecular pump

Kinsho, Michikazu; Ogiwara, Norio; Wada, Kaoru*; Yoshida, Motoo*; Nakayasu, Tatsuo*; Yamato, Yukio*

Vacuum, 73(2), p.175 - 180, 2004/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2003.12.015

The turbo molecular pump which can be operated exposed to high radiation has been developing at JAERI and Osaka Vacuum Ltd., because it is planed to use this turbo molecular pump for the 3GeV-RCS of the J-PARC project. The goal of irradiation dose is 30 MGy because the cumulative energy dose due to radiation is approximately estimated to be on the order of 100 MGy for 30 years of the 3GeV-RCS operation. In order to know radiation damage of turbo molecular pump, gamma-ray irradiation experiment has been performed at JAERI. The turbo molecular pump could operate properly less than 3.5 MGy absorption dose under gamma-ray irradiation environment. Since the elongation of elastomer vacuum seals became small due to exposed to radiation, this radiation damage of elastomer seals causes leak. The turbo molecular pump components except the elasomer seals, for example motor coil, control sensor, and etc, have kept high performance more than 7 MGy absorption dose. The turbo molecular pump without elastomer seals has been developed and the irradiation test will be started form April.

Super radiation tolerance of CIGS solar cells demonstrated in space by MDS-1 satellite

Kawakita, Shiro*; Imaizumi, Mitsuru*; Sumita, Taishi*; Kushiya, Katsumi*; Oshima, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Masafumi*; Matsuda, Sumio*; Yoda, Shinichi*; Kamiya, Tomihiro

Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-3) (CD-ROM), 4 Pages, 2004/01

The electrical performance of Cu(Ga,In)Se solar cells on MDS-1 which was launched in February 2002 was measured. The CIGS solar cells show superior radiation resistance in space. The short circuit current dose not degrade and the open circuit voltage shows only 1 % degradation after 200 days. On the other hand, in the case of ground test, the recovery of electrical performance of CIGS solar cells are observed at RT. And, the recovery is enhanced by current-injection.

Radiation resistivity of polymeric materials with data tables

Center for Proton Accelerator Facilities Planning group

JAERI-Data/Code 2003-015, 255 Pages, 2003/09

JAERI-Data-Code-2003-015.pdf:8.14MB

This document presents radiation resistivity of various polymeric materials with collected data tables that are the candidate materials to be used in the High Intensity Proton Accelerator Facility Project, J-PARC, which is to produce MW-class high power proton beams. The effect of radiation damage and deterioration by loss-beam or secondary particle beam influences the performance and the reliability of various instruments. The radiation damage consists of mechanical property, electrical property and gas-evolution property, and these properties depend entirely upon the kind of radiation, energy and dose intensity. The first part of this document methodically introduces the general feature of polymer and its radiation-induced deterioration mechanisms, and the second part of the document shows the compiled data for irradiation effects of polymeric materials. The sources of the data are the published reports from the worldwide references.