Increase in internal friction in uranium with change in temperature

On the basis of the previously described increase in internal friction in uranium during heating, a semiquantitative evaluation was made of the dependence of increase in internal friction on the rate of heating, frequency and amplitude of vibrations. The results of the calculations agree satisfactorily with data obtained experimentally. A study was made of the effect of the initial state of the specimen on the increase in internal friction at the initial stages of heating.     

广东省进出口食品中的放射性检验

报道了广东省商检中心放射性检验室开展的广东进出口食品中的放射性检验工作。介绍了检验工作采用仪器的主要性能及应用;给出了分析测量方法和探测下限以及实验的质量保证措施,并给出了检验室测量的广东省几种食品中的放射性含量范围,测量结果与我国食品中放射性活度变化范围大体一致。     

Tritium concentrations in precipitation in Shanghai

Tritium concentrations in precipitation can be used as a criterion to evaluate the tritium baseline of the environment. The tritium concentration in precipitation in Shanghai during 2014-2015 was determined. Values ranged from 0.68 ± 0.04 to 4.11 ± 0.39 Bq/L, and it showed a decreasing trend compared with historical data; however,the values were slightly higher than the natural background tritium level. Additionally, the tritium concentration shows a seasonal variation: It was higher in autumn and winter and lower in summer and spring. A comparison of concentrations in precipitation in Shanghai and around the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant reveals no correlation,implying that the nuclear power plant operations may not affect the environment of Shanghai. Thus, the raised tritium concentrations in Shanghai might be due to the effects of monsoons, spring leak, raindrop, or other activities that generate tritium there. Those activities may include chemistry research that uses tritium as a tracer.     

微机在核物理实验应用中的抗干扰问题

本文简单介绍了计算机在核物理技术应用中的各种噪声，并初步探讨了抑制噪声的方法。     

Tritium concentrations in precipitation in Shanghai

Beamline BL17 U1 at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility is an energy-tunable macromolecular crystallography beamline that has been in user operation since 2009. Growing demand from the user community for a small beam and related experimental methods have motivated upgrades of the devices in the endstation.Minibeam modes have already been developed for operation. A self-integrated diffractometer reduces the sphere of confusion of the rotatory axis to 1μm. The new diffractometer is equipped with an upgraded on-axis viewing system that can improve the resolving power. Additionally,the area detector was also upgraded to the newest generation of detectors, the EIGER X 16 M, which can collect data at 133 Hz. After these upgrades, the endstation became virtually new. This paper covers the upgrade of the endstation devices and gives the first data collection results.     

2010年的美国铀矿业

2010年,美国铀矿总共施工7 209个钻孔,总进尺1 493 520 m;生产铀1 628.55t;铀矿业总支出费用为2.773亿美元,其中铀矿地勘费支出为3 450万美元,占铀矿业总费用的12.44％.铀矿地勘钻探费用为4 460万美元,占铀矿业总费用的16.08％.     

我国东南沿海城市地下建筑氡浓度分布

为了解东南沿海城市地下建筑氡浓度的分布，用固体核径迹法(SSNTD’s)，分别在春、夏、冬3季对沿海7城市地下建筑室内氡浓度进行调查。结果表明，福州具有最高的平均氡浓度，上海的平均氡浓度最低。季节的变化对地下建筑室内氡浓度有影响，各城市氡浓度平均值夏季最高、冬季最低。各城市夏季氡浓度与该城市的年均值的比值与城市中各测点氡浓度之间的离散度有一定的相关性。夏季地下建筑室内氡浓度高的城市，它的平均氡浓度受某些具有高氡水平测点的影响大。     

Plutonium use in nuclear power in Russia

Conclusions The following concept of plutonium utilization based on the evolutionary development of the traditional technology in our country arises: The main problem of any short-term program of dealing with plutonium must be solved — reliable and safe storage of separated energy plutonium and freed weapons plutonium before utilization in reactors. Plutonium (mainly energy plutonium) is utilized primarily in BN-800 fast reactors and the development of technology using weapons plutonium in BN-600 reactors starts. In the future attention should be focused on nuclear-power centers patterned after the Industrial Association “Mayak” (RT-1 plant, Complex 300, BN-800) with reliable nonproliferation of weapons plutonium. It is extremely important to speed up work on the completion of Complex 300: This work must be completed before BN-800 is ready. In the future efforts must be concentrated on the following: development and implementation, in BN-800, of an economically more efficient plutonium-burning core; the possibility of building light-water reactors with the required degree of safety for effective plutonium utilization must be justified (including a “cold” core based on cermet fuel); and, development and implementation of technology for a safe and an ecologically acceptable closed nuclear fuel cycle based on plutonium and²³³U with burnout of Am, Np, and Cm. Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation. Institute of Physics and Power Engineering. A. A. Bochvar All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Standardization in Machine Building. Special Design Office for Machines. Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 326–332, April, 1994.     

秦山核电厂放射源管理经验

秦山核电厂对放射源管理有一套系统的制度，从原的申购，入库，保管，使用，报废，到存入专门的废物库这一全过程实施了严格的控制管理，保证了放射源的安全。本文介绍了秦山核电厂在放射源管理的制度建设，保管使用，监督检查和过程控制等方面的经验。     

Fusion Safety Studies in Russia in 1996

The paper seeks to provide a summary report of observations and results of some Russian fusion safety studies performed in 1996. Release of tritium and helium from neutron irradiated beryllium at relatively high neutron fluences has a burst nature. With the growth of the beryllium temperature-increase rate to 90 K/s, the temperature of tritium burst release decreases from 800 to 450–500°C and for helium decreases from 1200 to 500°C. Characterization of carbon and tungsten dust produced in experiments simulating plasma disruptions revealed that dust particle distribution of sizes for graphites and carbon fiber composites has a bimodal nature with maxima in the range of 0.01–0.03 and 2–4 m for composite UAM and in the range of 0.14–0.18 and 2–4 m for graphite MPG-8. Chemical reactivity of beryllium with air was studied as well. A mathematical model for beryllium weight gain under its chemical interaction with air at temperatures of 700–800°C as a function of beryllium porosity, temperature, and interaction duration was developed.     

Trends in computational intelligence in nuclear engineering

Several changes to the focus of Computational Intelligence in Nuclear Engineering have occurred in the past few years. With earlier activities focusing on the development of condition monitoring and diagnostic techniques for current nuclear power plants, recent activities have focused on the implementation of those methods and the development of methods for next generation plants and space reactors. These advanced techniques are expected to become increasingly important as current generation nuclear power plants have their licenses extended to 60 years and next generation reactors are being designed to operate for extended fuel cycles (up to 25 years), with less operator oversight, and especially for nuclear plants operating in severe environments such as space or ice-bound locations.     

Temporal changes in vertical distribution of 137Cs in litter and soils in mixed deciduous forests in Fukushima,Japan

Downward migration of ¹³⁷Cs in soils was studied in three mixed deciduous forests c.a. 40 km northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant (FDNPP), Japan. We selected three different types of forest regarding to environmental condition such as slope inclinations and snow coverage conditions at the time of deposition. We examined temporal changes in the vertical distribution of ¹³⁷Cs from litter layers to 10 cm soil depth for two years (2.3 to 4.3 years after the FDNPP accident in 2011). At all three study sites, the ¹³⁷Cs in the litter layer had largely migrated to surface soil by 2013. After 2014, about 80% of the ¹³⁷Cs in forest soils (litter layer to 10 cm soil depth) remained within 0–5 cm soil layer. The vertical distribution had not changed substantially since 2014, suggesting that changes to the downward migration rates of ¹³⁷Cs in soils drastically decreased with time. In addition, small amounts of migrating ¹³⁷Cs could not be detected by the present method because there was a large spatial variation in the distribution of soil ¹³⁷Cs. The results showed similar patterns of soil ¹³⁷Cs distribution among the three study sites although there were differences in the environmental conditions.     

Pb210 in the atmosphere and in fallout

Data are given for the intensity of Pb²¹⁰ fallout in the Moscow area during 1961–1963. The intensity of Pb²¹⁰ fallout ordinarily increases with increasing amounts of precipitation. The average Pb²¹⁰ concentration in fallout is not related to the amount of precipitation, and rises sharply only in dry periods. The intensity of Pb²¹⁰ fallout is practically constant in the spring, summer, and fall, and decreases in the winter onty by a factor of 2–2.5. The average concentration of Pb²¹⁰ in fallout is practically independent of season. The mean annual intensity of Pb²¹⁰ fallout in the Moscow area is 2.8 nCi/m². The Pb²¹⁰ concentration in the surface layer of the atmosphere above the Pacific and Indian Oceans varies within wide limits ((0.1–1.60)·10^–3 nCi/m³), and, apparently is chiefly determined by meteorological factors. The Pb²¹⁰ content in the troposphere above the oceans is probabIy only slightly less than the content in the troposphere above dry land. The variations in Pb²¹⁰ concentration in the surface layer of the atmosphere above land and ocean can evidently be used for sttidying the meteorological factors responsible for the transport of radioactive isotopes within the troposphere and for their deposition on the surface of the earth.Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 503–506, May, 1965     

Radial variation in porosity in annular packed beds

This paper describes the results of a study of the variation in the radial direction in the porosity of annular packed beds. A comparison is made between the predictions by a number of empirical correlations found in literature, the porosities obtained from physical experiments and the porosities obtained from the analysis of numerically generated packed beds. It is concluded that the numerical annular packed beds can be considered as acceptable representations of the actual annular packed beds. From the comparison between a number of exponential correlations proposed by various authors for the variation in the radial direction in the “averaged” porosity and the numerical results it is recommended that the correlation proposed by Hunt and Tien be used to describe the variation in the radial direction in the porosity. It is, however, also recommended that a further thorough study be conducted to develop a more detailed understanding of the porosity characteristics of annular packed beds.