Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP222, a derivative of A. eutrophus JMP134 which has lost plasmid pJP4 (encoding the tfd genes for the ortho fission pathway), was induced for the meta fission pathway when grown on o-cresol. Resting cell suspensions, grown on o-cresol, oxidized 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP), a degradation product of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, to 3,5-dichlorocatechol. Further degradat...

Nuclear transmutation has been reported by lots of experiments. The features of this phenomenon are the production of elements which shows fission-like distribution and their anomalous isotopic ratios or the selective Z and mass changes [1]. To analyze this phenomenon, the selective channel scission (SCS) model has been proposed and improved [2]. The SCS model is powerful and can predict the fi...

In Japan, R&D activities for partitioning and transmutation (P&T) have been promoted under the OMEGA programme for more than 15 years. These activities were reviewed by the Atomic Energy Commission in Japan in 2000. In accordance with the results of the review, three institutes, the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) and the Centr...

Prompt and $\beta$-delayed fission observables, such as the average number of prompt delayed neutrons, independent cumulative product yields, $\gamma$-ray energy spectra for photonuclear reactions on $^{235,238}$U $^{239}$Pu are calculated with Hauser-Feshbach Fission Fragment Decay (HF$^3$D) model compared available experimental data. In analysis neutron-induced to case photo-induced fission, ...

The fission rate during JCO criticality accident is estimated from fission-product (FP) radioactivities in a uranium solution sample taken from the preparation basin 20 days after the accident. The FP radioactivity data are taken from a report by JAERI released in the Accident Investigation Committee. The total fission number is found quite dependent on the FP radioactivities and estimated to b...