JNST Article Awards

JNST Most Cited Article Award 2018 :
- Chemical states of fallout radioactive Cs in the soils deposited at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident [Fukushima NPP Accident Related] Naofumi Kozai, Toshihiko Ohnuki, Makoto Arisaka, Masayuki Watanabe, Fuminori Sakamoto, Shinya Yamasaki & Mingyu Jiang
- Insights from review and analysis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident [Fukushima NPP Accident Related] Masashi Hirano, Taisuke Yonomoto, Masahiro Ishigaki, Norio Watanabe, Yu Maruyama, Yasuteru Sibamoto, Tadashi Watanabe & Kiyofumi Moriyama
- Equilibrium and kinetic studies of selective adsorption and separation for strontium using DtBuCH18C6 loaded resin Yan Wu, Seong-Yun Kim, Daisuke Tozawa, Tatsuya Ito, Tsutomu Tada, Keitaro Hitomi, Etsushu Kuraoka, Hiromichi Yamazaki & Keizo Ishii
- Neutron-capture cross-sections of 244Cm and 246Cm measured with an array of large germanium detectors in the ANNRI at J-PARC/MLF Atsushi Kimura, Toshiyuki Fujii, Satoshi Fukutani, Kazuyoshi Furutaka, Shinji Goko, Kaoru Y. Hara, Hideo Harada, Kentaro Hirose, Jun-ichi Hori, Masayuki Igashira, Takashi Kamiyama, Tatsuya Katabuchi, Tadahiro Kin, Koichi Kino, Fumito Kitatani, Yoshiaki Kiyanagi, Mitsuo Koizumi, Motoharu Mizumoto, Shoji Nakamura, Masayuki Ohta, Masumi Oshima, Koichi Takamiya & Yosuke Toh
- Analyses of core melt and re-melt in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors [Fukushima NPP Accident Related] Fumiya Tanabe
JNST Most Popular Article Award 2018:
- Long-term predictions of ambient dose equivalent rates after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident Sakae Kinase, Tomoyuki Takahashi & Kimiaki Saito
- Benchmark study of the recent version of the PHITS code Yosuke Iwamoto, Tatsuhiko Sato, Shintaro Hashimoto, Tatsuhiko Ogawa, Takuya Furuta, Shin-ichiro Abe, Takeshi Kai, Norihiro Matsuda, Ryuji Hosoyamada & Koji Niita
- Development of a short-term emergency assessment system of the marine environmental radioactivity around Japan Takuya Kobayashi, Hideyuki Kawamura, Katsuji Fujii & Yuki Kamidaira
- Monte Carlo optimization of an epithermal neutron flux monitor for BNCT Xingcai Guan, Isao Murata & Tieshan Wang
Past winners
the JNST Most Cited Article Award20162015201420132012
Monte Carlo Simulation for Particle and gamma-Ray Emissions in Statistical Hauser-Feshbach Model | Toshihiko Kawano, Patrick Talou, Mark B. Chadwick & Takehito Watanabe |
Development of Calculation Technique for Iterated Fission Probability and Reactor Kinetic Parameters Using Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Method | Yasushi Nauchi & Takanori Kameyama |
Countercurrent Gas-Liquid Flow in a PWR Hot Leg under Reflux Cooling (I) Air-Water Tests for 1/15-Scale Model of a PWR Hot Leg | Noritoshi Minami, Daisuke Nishiwaki, Toshifumi Nariai, Akio Tomiyama & Michio Murase |
Reaction rate analyses for an accelerator-driven system with 14MeV neutrons in the Kyoto University critical assembly | Cheol Ho Pyeon, Hiroshi Shiga, Tsuyoshi Misawa, Tomohiko Iwasaki & Seiji Shiroya |
First injection of spallation neutrons generated by high-energy protons into the Kyoto University critical assembly | Cheol Ho Pyeon, Tsuyoshi Misawa, Jae-Yong Lim, Hironobu Unesaki, Yoshihiro Ishi, Yasutoshi Kuriyama, Tomonori Uesugi, Yoshiharu Mori, Makoto Inoue, Ken Nakajima, Kaichiro Mishima & Seiji Shiroya |
JENDL actinoid file 2008 | Osamu Iwamoto, Tsuneo Nakagawa, Naohiko Otuka, Satoshi Chiba, Keisuke Okumura, Go Chiba, Takaaki Ohsawa & Kazuyoshi Furutaka |
Proposal of nondestructive radionuclide assay using a high-flux gamma-ray source and nuclear resonance fluorescence | Ryoichi Hajima, Takehito Hayakawa, Nobuhiro Kikuzawa and Eisuke Minehara |
Static and kinetic experiments on accelerator-driven system with 14MeV neutrons in Kyoto University critical assembly | Cheol Ho Pyeon, Morgan Hervault, Tsuyoshi Misawa,Hironobu Unesaki, Tomohiko Iwasaki and Seiji Shiroya |
Mathematica programs for the analysis of three-dimensional pore connectivity and anisotropic tortuosity of porous rocks using X-ray computed tomography image data | Yoshito Nakashima and Susumu Kamiya |
Soil-to-plant transfer factors of stable elements and naturally occurring radionuclides (1) Upland field crops collected in Japan | Shigeo Uchida, Keiko Tagami and Ikuko Hirai |
Extraction of various metal ions from nitric acid to n-dodecanen by Diglycolamide (DGA) compounds | Yuji Sasaki, Zhi-Xuan Zhu, Yumi Sugo and Takaumi Kimura |
Development of a comprehensive code for nuclear data evaluation, CCONE, and validation using neutron-induced cross sections for uranium isotopes | Osamu Iwamoto |
Out-of-pile and in-pile perfomance of advanded zirconium alloys (HANA) for high burn-up fuel | Yong Hwan Jeong, Sang-Yun Park, Myung-Ho Lee, Byung-Kwon Choi, Jong-Hyuk Baek, Jeong-Yong Park, Jun-Hwan Kim & Hyun-Gil Kim |
Characteristics of oxidation reaction of rare-earth chlorides for precipitation in LiCl-KCl molten salt by oxygen sparging | Yong-Jun Cho, Hee-Chul Yang, Hee-Chul Eun, Eung-Ho Kim & In-Tae Kim |
Delayed hydride crack velocity of zirconium alloys with the direction of an approach to temperature | Young Suk Kim, Kang Soo Kim & Yong Moo Cheong |
Fuel and core design of super light water reactor with low leakage fuel loading pattern | Kazuhiro Kamei, Akifumi Yamaji, Yuki Ishiwatari, Yoshiaki Oka & Jie Liu |
2016201520142013
Experimental study on combustion characteristics of sodium fire in a columnar flow? | Zhi-Gang Zhang, Kang-Wei Peng, Yan Huo & Ming Guo |
Quantities of I-131 and Cs-137 in accumulated water in the basements of reactor buildings in process of core cooling at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants accident and its influence on late phase source terms?[Fukushima NPP Accident Related] | Akihide Hidaka & Jun Ishikawa |
Distribution of radionuclides in surface seawater obtained by an aerial radiological survey?[Fukushima NPP Accident Related] | Yayoi Inomata, Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose, Yukihisa Sanada, Tatsuo Torii, Takaki Tsubono, Daisuke Tsumune & Masatoshi Yamada |
Characterization of solidified melt among materials of UO2?fuel and B4C control blade? | Masahide Takano, Tsuyoshi Nishi & Noriko Shirasu |
Radiation protection lessons learned from the TEPCO Fukushima No.1 NPS accident? | Itsumasa Urabe, Takatoshi Hattori, Takeshi Iimoto & Sumi Yokoyama |
Review of thermal-hydraulic researches in severe accidents in light water reactors | Isao Kataoka |
Source term estimation of atmospheric release due to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by atmospheric and oceanic dispersion simulations | Takuya Kobayashi, Haruyasu Nagai, Masamichi Chino and Hideyuki Kawamura |
Probabilistic common cause failure modeling for auxiliary feedwater system after the introduction of flood barriers | Xiaoyu Zheng, Akira Yamaguchi and Takashi Takata |
Particle and heavy ion transport code System, PHITS, version 2.52 | Tatsuhiko Sato, Koji Niita, Norihiro Matsuda, Shintaro Hashimoto, Yosuke Iwamoto,Shusaku Noda, Tatsuhiko Ogawa, Hiroshi Iwase, Hiroshi Nakashima,Tokio Fukahori, Keisuke Okumura, Tetsuya Kai, Satoshi Chiba,Takuya Furuta and Lembit Sihver |
Results of environmental radiation monitoring at the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, JAEA, following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident | Masanori Takeyasu, Masanao Nakano, Hiroki Fujita, Akira Nakada, Hitoshi Watanabe, Shuichi Sumiya and Sadaaki Furuta |
Chemical states of fallout radioactive Cs in the soils deposited at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident | Naofumi Kozai, Toshihiko Ohnuki, Makoto Arisaka, Masayuki Watanabe, Fuminori Sakamoto, Shinya Yamasaki and Mingyu Jiang |
Insights from review and analysis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident | Masashi Hirano, Taisuke Yonomoto, Masahiro Ishigaki, Norio Watanabe, Yu Maruyama, Yasuteru Sibamoto, Tadashi Watanabe and Kiyofumi Moriyama |
Analyses of core melt and re-melt in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors | Fumiya Tanabe |
Thermal properties of Three Mile Island Unit 2 core debris and simulated debris | Fumihisa Nagase and Hiroshi Uetsuka |