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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an anemometer manufactured inexpensively and easily at a working level using only a material available easily, while allowing a wind velocity and a wind direction to be measured relatively precisely. SOLUTION: This anemometer is provided with a vane fixing plate 1 turned to direct a tip part windwards, a support part 2 for supporting turnably the vane fixing plate 1, a pair of openable and closable vanes 3a, 3b attached to both faces of the vane fixing plate 1, and a plurality of permanent magnets 4 for imparting resiliency along a direction of opening the vanes 3a, 3b. The pair of vanes 3a, 3b is brought into a stationary condition in a position balanced with closing force due to push of wind when receiving the wind and the resiliency of the permanent magnets 4, and the wind velocity is specified based on a stationary position. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nuclear fuel pellet not requiring a heat-treatment process after sintering of the pellet by regulating the amount of metal uranium (U) granules added to an oxide powder being a raw material powder, to control the O/M ratio of the sintered pellet to a value lower than the value in the conventional case, and also to provide its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The manufacturing method for the nuclear fuel pellet comprises the steps of: adding the metal uranium particles of a required equivalent spherical diameter to the oxide powder containing a nuclear fuel substance and mixing them; compressing and molding the mixed oxide powder to make a green pellet; and sintering the green pellet thus yielded at a specified temperature for a specified time in a sintering furnace having an inert gas atmosphere. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emergency call panel that enables quick and easy control of an emergency call server of an emergency communications system, by readily operating buttons and to provide an emergency communication system that comprises the emergency call server and the emergency call panel. SOLUTION: The emergency call panel has a report button that can be initially allocated, corresponding to a standard report given by the call server of the emergency communication system, and a transmission button for transmitting data on the selected standard report to the call server, while the report button is selected according to the standard report. The emergency communication system comprises the call server and the emergency call panel for executing the report process of the call server. On the emergency call panel, the report button, corresponding to the standard report is selected according to the content of a report and start request data including data on the standard report selected are sent to the call server. When the call server obtains the start request data, a reporting process is executed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the multiple uses of fuel spent in a light water reactors only by conducting recovery treatment involving a simple heat treatment and the reusable fuel processing. SOLUTION: Fuel 1 spent in the light water reactor is extracted from cladding tubes for the light water reactor by recovery treatment involving a simple heat treatment (SP1) and is made reusable fuel by reusable fuel manufacturing (reusable fuel processing; SP2) and the reusable fuel is filled and loaded into cladding tubes for a fast reactor. Additionally, the reusable fuel in the cladding tubes in the fast reactor loaded into them is characterized in that it is made reusable fuel again by being extracted from the cladding tubes for the fast reactor through the recovery treatment involving the simple heat treatment (SP1) and by the reusable fuel manufacturing (SP2) at intervals of a recycle time set within the allowable durability period for the cladding tubes for the fast reactor in it and that the reloading into the fast reactor--the loading into it by filling the reusable fuel into new cladding tubes for the fast reactor--is repeated once or more. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To identify a nuclide to determinate its content. SOLUTION: A sample 18 to be analyzed is irradiated with pulse neutrons from an external neutron source and the energy distribution of transmitted neutrons is detected by a neutron detector 22 while the cavity of a neutron resonance peak at every nuclide is observed by a flying time measuring method not only to identify the nuclide contained in the sample but also to determinate its content. The sample to be analyzed is placed on an unidimensional or two-dimensional sample drive stand 16 and moved to be irradiated with collimated pulse neutrons and the transmitted neutrons are measured by the neutron detector while a background is removed by a shield body. By this method, the kind of the nuclide contained in the sample and the position dependency of the content of the nuclide can be calculated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce much waste of tagging gas and reduce the manufacturing cost of an internal pressure creep test piece by uniformly mixing the tagging gas and internal pressure loading gas, exactly grasping their mixing fractions and exactly calculating internal stress at high temperature. SOLUTION: The internal pressure creep test piece 24 is placed in enclosure vessels 10, 12, the tag gas and internal pressure loading gas are introduced into the enclosure vessels and filled in the internal pressure creep test piece, and a gas introducing hole of the internal pressure creep test piece is sealed with laser welding. Here, in the front step of the enclosure vessel, a mixer 14 which is provided with a stirring function and variable inner volume is placed. The tagging gas and the internal pressure loading gas are separately introduced in the mixer and high pressure mixture gas is compressed into the enclosure vessel by a plunger for injecting in a mixing room. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a radiation measurement system which has a good mobility at an actual measurement and executes the measurement with good accuracy. SOLUTION: A neutron measurement system is composed of a surveymeter 10, an auxiliary measurement device 12 and a system controller 14. In a calibration process carried out by a prior measurement, the content of relational expression contained in the surveymeter 10 is compensated by using count values of the auxiliary measurement device 12. The relational expression includes an energy estimation function and a conversion factor decision function. After compensating the relational expression appropriately, neutrons are actually measured by utilizing the surveymeter alone. Thus, the relational expression is compensated in accordance with an actual field of neutrons, and the actual measurement is precisely carried out by using the surveymeter 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to separate fuel substances from other nuclear fission products without dissolving the substances as they remain oxides. SOLUTION: This method includes (1) a pulverization process for pulverizing fuel elements by heating and oxidizing spent fuel, (2) a selective sulfurization process for reducing the fuel substances and selectively sulfurizing nuclear fission products into sulfide or oxysulfide by heating the pulverulent bodies obtained in the pulverization process in an atmosphere containing a sulfurizer and (3) a partial dissolution process for dissolving the sulfide by washing substances obtained in the selective sulfurization process with a dilute acid to wash away the nuclear fission product elements and extracting the fuel substances as oxides. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To determine a using condition of a material under an irradiation environment at low cost in a short time, in application to the irradiation environment of the new material represented by ordered structure alloy or the like. SOLUTION: A condition-under-irradiation diagram for expressing a relationship of a long range regularity degree to a condition-under-irradiation variable R as to an irradiation velocity and a temperature is created in response to ordered structure of the alloy, based on an evaluation expression as to an irradiation effect affecting a condition under irradiation, using as parameters a first threshold where the degree of regularity starts to go remarkably down under the irradiation environment, a second threshold reaching to substantial equilibrium after the going-down, and an equilibrium long range regularity degree. An R value under a planed using irradiation condition about the determined alloy is calculated to find a long range regularity degree S corresponding thereto, the first threshold, the second threshold and the equilibrium long range regularity degree are found in the same R value to be compared, and a degree of damage and a fluctuation situation thereof are predicted thereby to determine the service condition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and nondestructively perform inspection on defects or wall thickness by imaging a cross section of a heat transfer tube group under inspection irrespective of the material quality and structure of each heat transfer tube or the arranged state, etc. of a multitude of heat transfer tubes. SOLUTION: This heat transfer tube group inspection device is equipped with: radiation sources 16 installed in any one or more places inside a heat transfer tube 12, inside the heat transfer tube group 10, and outside the tube group; a radiation detector 18 fitted with a collimator 20 installed so as to make it possible to detect radiation emitted from the radiation sources outside the tube group all over the circumference thereof; and a CT processor 22 for CT-processing intensity signals on the radiation detected by the radiation detector. The cross-sections of the tube group comprising a multitude of arranged heat transfer tubes are imaged by means of the CT processing, thereby nondestructively inspecting the tube group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI