RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Safety Management Group
Director: Kanenobu Tanaka (D.Sc.)
Research Summary
The Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science possesses one of the biggest heavy-ion accelerator facilities in the world. Heavy-ion cyclotron accelerate uranium ions and electron accelerators are also operated. Our function is to keep the radiation level in and around the facility below the allowable limit and to control the exposure on the workers as low as reasonably achievable. Research and development for radiation-controlled systems and radiation detectors are performed for radiation safety. We are also involved in the safety management of the Radioisotope Center where many types of experiments are performed with sealed and unsealed radioisotopes.
Main Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Experimental studies related to particle-, nuclear-, cosmic ray and astro-physics
- Quantum beam science-related
Keywords
- Radiation safety
- Accelerator
- Radiation detector
Selected Publications
- 1.
Sugihara, K., Shigyo, N., Akashio, A., Tanaka, K.:
"Measurement of Neutron Energy Spectra of 345 MeV/u 238U Incidence on a Copper Target"
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 512 102‒107 (2022) - 2.
Sugihara, K., Shigyo, N., Lee, E., Sanami, T., Tanaka, K.:
"Measurement of thick target neutron yields from 7 MeV/u α incidence on 209Bi"
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 470 15‒20 (2020) - 3.
Nakao, N., Uwamino, Y., Tanaka, K.:
"Measurement of the neutron angular distribution from a beryllium target bombarded with a 345-MeV/u238U beam at the RIKEN RI beam factory"
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 423, 27-36 (2018) - 4.
Akashio, A., Tanaka, K., Imao, H., and Uwamino Y.:
"Activation measurement by 238U beam irradiation around 11A MeV on He gas"
13th International Conference on Radiation Shielding & 19th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection & Shielding Division of the Ameriacn Nuclear Society 2016 (ICRS13-RPSD2016), Paris, France, October (2016) - 5.
Tanaka, K., Inabe, N., Yoshida, K. and Kubo, T.:
"Evaluation of radiation levels and comparison with PHITS calculation for the BigRIPS separator in Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory"
Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology, 4, 201-204 (2014)
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Kanenobu Tanaka
- Director
Core members
- Hiroki Mukai
- Technical Scientist
- Takuya Maeyama
- Technical Scientist
- Katsumi Aoki
- Technical Scientist
- Atsuko Akashio
- Expert Technician
Contact Information
RIBF building,
2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Email: ktanaka＠riken.jp