Annual report of Department of Research Reactor and Tandem Accelerator, JFY2022 (Operation, Utilization and Technical Development of JRR-3, NSRR, Tandem Accelerator, Radio Isotope Production Facility and Tritium Process Laboratory, Decommissioning Activity for JRR-4)

Department of Research Reactor and Tandem Accelerator

JAEA-Review 2024-029, 107 Pages, 2024/08

JAEA-Review-2024-029.pdf:5.18MB

The Department of Research Reactor and Tandem Accelerator is in charge of the operation, utilization and technical development of JRR-3 (Japan Research Reactor No.3), NSRR (Nuclear Safety Research Reactor), Tandem Accelerator, Radio Isotope Production Facility, and TPL (Tritium Process Laboratory). Also decommissioned JRR-4 (Japan Research Reactor No.4) and maintains JRR-1 (Japan Research Reactor No.1) and the FEL (Free Electron Laser). This annual report describes the activities of our department in fiscal year of 2022. We carried out the operation and maintenance, utilization, upgrading of utilization techniques, decommissioned JRR-4, safety administration, international cooperation and human resources development. Also contained are lists of publications, meetings, granted permissions on laws and regulations concerning atomic energy, outcomes in service and technical developments and so on.

Development of standard substance for hydrogen analysis in materials

Ogawa, Hiroaki; Ishikawa, Norito

2023-Nendo Daigaku Kenkyu Josei Gijutsu Kenkyu Hokokusho, p.123 - 134, 2024/03

Evaluation of corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement is important in the quality control of stainless steel and the development of next steel materials assuming a high-pressure hydrogen environment. Typically, a secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) is used to analyze hydrogen in steel materials. The hydrogen concentration of conventional standard substance for hydrogen analysis is as small as 1wt-ppm, which has been a problem in hydrogen analysis. We use a hydrogen-implant method to create a locally higher hydrogen concentration than that of the conventional. Hydrogen concentration analysis has been evaluated using the nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) method at a tandem accelerator. We have succeeded in creating a sample with a higher hydrogen concentration of about 1,900 wt-ppm than that of the conventional in locally.

Latent ion tracks were finally observed in diamond

Amekura, Hiroshi*; Chettah, A.*; Narumi, Kazumasa*; Chiba, Atsuya*; Hirano, Yoshimi*; Yamada, Keisuke*; Yamamoto, Shunya*; Leino, A. A.*; Djurabekova, F.*; Nordlund, K.*; et al.

Nature Communications (Internet), 15, p.1786_1 - 1786_10, 2024/02

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45934-4

Injecting high-energy heavy ions in the electronic stopping regime into solids can create cylindrical damage zones called latent ion tracks. Although these tracks form in many materials, none have ever been observed in diamond, even when irradiated with high-energy GeV uranium ions. Here we report the first observation of ion track formation in diamond irradiated with 2-9 MeV C fullerene ions. Depending on the ion energy, the mean track length (diameter) changed from 17 (3.2) nm to 52 (7.1) nm. High resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HR-STEM) indicated the amorphization in the tracks, in which -bonding signal from graphite was detected by the electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS).

Present status of JAEA-Tokai tandem accelerator

Kutsukake, Kenichi; Matsuda, Makoto; Nakamura, Masahiko; Ishizaki, Nobuhiro; Kabumoto, Hiroshi; Otokawa, Yoshinori; Asozu, Takuhiro; Matsui, Yutaka; Nakagawa, Sohei; Abe, Shinichi

Proceedings of 20th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.1080 - 1084, 2023/11

https://www.pasj.jp/web_publish/pasj2023/proceedings/PDF/TFSP/TFSP08.pdf

no abstracts in English

Development of bearing units used in the rotating shaft system for power generation in the JAEA-Tokai Tandem accelerator

Otokawa, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Makoto; Abe, Shinichi

JAEA-Technology 2022-037, 23 Pages, 2023/03

JAEA-Technology-2022-037.pdf:5.38MB

Bearing units of rotating shaft system for power generation in the JAEA-Tokai Tandem accelerator had a short operating life from the beginning of the accelerator installation, and even after replacing the bearing unit, early failures often occurred. Therefore, the quantity and frequency of replacement are large, and a lot of time is spent in regular maintenance performed by opening the accelerator pressure vessel, and solving this problem has been a long-standing concern. As a result of considering the cause of this early failure, it was considered that the load caused by parallel, angular, and axial misalignment of the upper and lower bearing units was the cause. In order to solve this problem, we have developed a bearing unit having metal disc-spring couplings in the upper and lower flanges to allow for parallel, angular, and axial misalignment of bearing units. As a result, it is now possible to allow variations in the distance between castings and parallel, angular, and axial misalignment of the upper and lower bearing units. By installing the developed new bearing unit on the rotating shaft system and making improvements while continuing to use it in actual operation, we succeeded in reducing the early failure and extending the operating life by more than double. With this development, the maintenance time has been reduced to one week by reducing the number of replacing the bearing unit. In addition, we have realized one regular maintenance that was carried out about three times a year, and as a benefit, we were able to reduce the amount of sulfur hexafluoride (SF) gas, which is a greenhouse gas, to about 3350% per year. We describe about development of new bearing units and these maintenance status from 2006 to 2020.

Proceedings of the 34th Meeting for Tandem Accelerators and their Associated Technologies

Kabumoto, Hiroshi; Nakagawa, Sohei; Matsuda, Makoto

JAEA-Conf 2022-002, 146 Pages, 2023/03

JAEA-Conf-2022-002.pdf:9.89MB

"The 34th Meeting for Tandem Accelerators and their Associated Technologies" was held on July 21-22, 2022 organized by Nuclear Science Research Institute of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. This meeting was held only on-line for preventing the spread of COVID-19 infection. The purpose of this meeting is contribution of development for related technology and of management of facilities through exchange of information among the researchers and engineers using and operating electrostatics accelerator facilities like tandem accelerators. There were 25 presentations which contains current status report of facility, technical development of accelerator, research of application. The total number of participants was a hundred, from 26 universities, research organizations and industries. This meeting consisted of only oral session, a poster session was not carried out because of on-line meeting. This proceeding compiles the contents of report papers in the meeting.

40 years of Tokai-tandem history

Matsuda, Makoto

JAEA-Conf 2022-002, p.103 - 110, 2023/03

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2022-002

no abstracts in English

Annual report of Department of Research Reactor and Tandem Accelerator, JFY2019 (Operation, Utilization and Technical Development of JRR-3, JRR-4, NSRR, Tandem Accelerator, RI Production Facility and Tritium Process Laboratory)

Department of Research Reactor and Tandem Accelerator

JAEA-Review 2022-064, 97 Pages, 2023/02

JAEA-Review-2022-064.pdf:2.91MB

The Department of Research Reactor and Tandem Accelerator is in charge of the operation, utilization and technical development of JRR-3 (Japan Research Reactor No.3), JRR-4 (Japan Research Reactor No.4), NSRR (Nuclear Safety Research Reactor), Tandem Accelerator, RI Production Facility and TPL(Tritium Process Laboratory). This annual report describes the activities of our department in fiscal year of 2019. We carried out the operation and maintenance, utilization, upgrading of utilization techniques, safety administration and international cooperation. Also contained are lists of publications, meetings, granted permissions on laws and regulations concerning atomic energy, outcomes in service and technical developments and so on.

Extreme chemistry of superheavy elements

Sato, Tetsuya; Nagame, Yuichiro*

Nihon Butsuri Gakkai-Shi, 78(2), p.64 - 72, 2023/02

https://doi.org/10.11316/butsuri.78.2_64

The study of the chemistry of superheavy elements, which are located in the heavy extremes of the periodic table, has made considerable progress over the past 20 years, and new approaches based on various ideas have recently been developed. Research groups in Japan have also made significant contributions to the development of research on superheavy elements. Recently, notable results have been reported for the transactinide elements rutherfordium (element 104), dubnium (element 105), and seaborgium (element 106), and the heavy actinides with atomic numbers exceeding 100. The review will focus on the recent main results of these elements. This review outlines the main recent results and touches on future prospects.

Reports of electro-polishing implementation for quarter-wave resonators, 2

Nii, Keisuke*; Ida, Yoshiaki*; Ueda, Hideki*; Yamaguchi, Takanori*; Kabumoto, Hiroshi; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kondo, Yasuhiro; Tamura, Jun; Harada, Hiroyuki; Matsui, Yutaka; et al.

Proceedings of 19th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.601 - 604, 2023/01

no abstracts in English