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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize the higher density of MOX (mixed oxide of uranium and plutonium) fuel even if it sintered at a low temperature, ensure highly uniform MOX fuel even if it contains Np and Am and makes it possible to adjust O/M with high accuracy. SOLUTION: A method includes a low-temperature sintering process for sintering a compact of the MOX fuel at a temperature of 1,500 to 1,600°C in a reducing gas moistened in a range of the partial pressure ratio of moisture to hydrogen (P H2O /P H2 ) between 0.05 and saturated acqueous vapor pressure to ensure the higher density of the MOX fuel of 93%TD or higher and a heat treatment process for adjusting the O/M in the fuel by conducting heat treatment for five or more hours at the temperature (provided that it is lower than the sintering temperature) which realizes the partial pressure of oxygen in equilibrium with the O/M as an adjusted target and under the partial pressure of oxygen. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To measure the flying direction of radiation entering from far, and to miniaturize a device and reduce its weight. SOLUTION: This device is equipped with a radiation detection system 12 having a scintillation optical fiber 10 for converting the entering radiation into a light signal, light receiving elements 14a, 14b connected to both ends thereof, for converting light signals propagating in two directions in the scintillation optical fiber into electric signals respectively, and a radiation analysis system 16 for determining the entering position of the radiation based on the arrival time difference between the electric signals from both light receiving elements. The scintillation optical fiber is installed in the arc-shaped bent state, and many plate-shaped collimators 18 are arrayed radially at approximately equal intervals on the outside of the scintillation optical fiber. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate possibility of steam explosion and water leakage by excluding a cooling mechanism of a heating furnace out of a well and simplify construction, maintenance and checking works. SOLUTION: An inert atmosphere testing device 30 is constituted of an air-tight box 20 with inert atmosphere and a heating furnace 1 connected with the air-tight box 20. The heating furnace is constituted of a well 2 with a cylinder shape with bottom which is placed by hanging downward from the bottom of the air-tight box 20, a core pipe 3 placed inside the well 2 by hanging downward from the bottom of the air-tight box 20, insulator 4 inserted in between the well 2 and the core pipe 3, a core pipe heating means 5 placed at the lower part of the core pipe, and a water cooling means 6 placed around the well. The insulator 4 inserted in between the well 2 and the core pipe 3 is eliminated from the upper part of the heating furnace 1 connected with the air-tight box 20, so that the well 2 is put closer to the core pipe 3 and cooling efficiency in the core pipe upper part is improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a boron nitride ceramic sintered compact having small difference of the density between the inside part and the surface part, high density, high strength and dense structure to hardly causing crack. SOLUTION: A molding 10 of boron carbide powder is housed in a boron nitride (BN)-made case 12, the BN-made case is enclosed by an outside heat insulation wall 14 comprising an alumina fiber board and BN powder 16 is filled in a space between the BN-made case and the outside heat insulation wall to perform heat insulation. The material 20 to be heated is heated at 5-30°C/minute temperature rising rate by being irradiated with electromagnetic wave having 10-100 GHz oscillation frequency from a millimeter wave gyrotron and is sintered by keeping top temperature of 2,100-2,250°C for 0.1-3 hr. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enlarge a work space inside a glove box and miniaturize it at the same time. SOLUTION: An installation is equipped with a crucible 22 for heating a metal to be refined, high-frequency induction heating coils 23 located around the crucible 22, a metal distiller 26 which has a condenser 25 for cooling impurities vaporized in the crucible 22 and a collector 251 for recovering the impurities solidified by the condenser 25 and the glove box 27 for placing the metal distiller 26 in an atmosphere of an inactive gas. On a bottom plate 27a of the glove box 27, a well part 27b which is vertically set up downward to accommodate at least the crucible 22 and the heating coils 23 of the metal distiller 26 is formed and a means 28 for cooling the well part 27b along a circumferential wall part 27c for demarcating the well part 27b is provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing particles having a high density and a high sphericity, and whose internal composition is uniform by a gelling method. SOLUTION: In the method for producing gel grains by dropping a raw material liquid into a reaction liquid, the dropping is performed after the filtration of the raw material liquid. Preferably, the raw material liquid is dropped to the liquid face of the reaction liquid covered with a cushion layer after the filtration of the raw material liquid, so that gel grains, e.g., having a mean particle diameter of ≤5,000 μm and a sphericity of COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform reliable measurement of a melting point near O/M=2.00-1.98 in an MOX fuel, where Pu concentration that has high importance from the standpoint of, in particular fuel design, or the like, to 30% or lower by reducing the reaction with oxygen in the MOX fuel (uranium-plutonium mixed oxide) and improving the reliability in the measurement of the melting point, by reducing the instability of a heat curve with respect to temperature increase stagnation. SOLUTION: A sample container for measuring the melting point using a thermal arrest method, by sealing the MOX fuel is the sample container for measuring the melting point of the MOX fuel with the entirety made of a tungsten-rhenium alloy. Typically, the MOX fuel to be measured is U-Pu mixed oxide, where Pu concentration is approximately 30% and O/M=2.00-1.95, and the tungsten-rhenium alloy that is a container-constituting material is made of tungsten 90%-rhenium 10%. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:为了在MOX燃料中进行O / M = 2.00-1.98附近的熔点的可靠测量,从特别是燃料设计等观点出发,具有高度重要性的Pu浓度, 通过减少MOX燃料(铀 - 钚混合氧化物)中的氧的反应,并通过降低热曲线相对于温度升高停滞的不稳定性来提高熔点测量的可靠性,至30%或更低。
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a flaw detection capability and a measurement capability by making a magnet structure stronger or smaller. SOLUTION: The electromagnetic ultrasonic probe comprises one or more pairs of magnet arrangement units which periodically arrange many prism-shaped permanent magnets and apply a magnetic field to a member to be inspected, and a coil which generates or detects an eddy current in the member to be inspected. The magnet arrangement unit 30 comprises a periodic arrangement structure in which primary magnets 32a and auxiliary magnets 32b are combined with their height direction aligned, wherein the primary magnets 32a are magnetized in the height direction and are arranged so that their magnetization directions are alternatingly opposed, and the auxiliary magnets 32b are magnetized in the thickness direction and are placed between the primary magnets and at both the ends so that their magnetization directions are alternatingly reversed. The surface of the north pole side of the primary magnet which is in contact with the surface of the north pole side of the auxiliary magnet is set to be a magnet working surface. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal lens absorption spectrophotometer which does neither require a high accuracy in alignment to facilitate alignment work and nor require experienced skills in measurement to enable a simple, quick measurement and in which a disturbance hardly causes an influence to decrease an error in the measurement as much as possible. SOLUTION: An excitation light e is made incident on a sample 12 to form a gradient of a refractive index by heat, a probe light p is made to strike on the sample from a direction crossing the excitation light to measure the quantity of deflection of the probe light caused by the gradient of the refractive index and the absorbance of the sample is measured. The probe light is composed of two parallel beams, and a change in a detection signal caused by a disturbance is automatically corrected by obtaining the absorbance from the product of quantities of deflection of the two beams by a detection system 30. The detection system comprises e.g., a symmetrically-shaped reflector 32 reflecting the two beams in opposite directions to each other, linear position sensors 34 and 36 receiving the two beams and a multiplier 38 for obtaining the product of the detection signals from them. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance safety, economy and maintainability in a reprocessing process. SOLUTION: This reprocessing process unit for extracting an objective substance in a solution by mixing and separating the solution and a solvent is provided with: a solution/solvent mixer 3 for mixing the solution and the solvent fed forcibly through a filter 4; a mixing coil 1 for mixing a mixture liquid introduced from the solution/solvent mixer; and a solution/solvent separator 2 for separating the mixture liquid passed through the mixing coil. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI