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Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Annual Research Report
Fiscal Year 2009

Contents

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1. Outline of Research Activities

1

1. Outline of Research Activities

2

CRIEPI's R&D Portfolio in FY2009

3

2. Principal Research Results

5

Project Subjects
Nuclear Technology
Irradiation Embrittlement and Structural Integrity of Reactor Pressure Vessel

6Stress Corrosion Cracking in Light Water Reactors

8

Pipe Wall Thinning Evaluation & Seismic Evaluation of Thinned Pipeline

10Deterioration Diagnosis of Instrumentation and Electrical Equipment

12

Transport and Storage for Recyclable Nuclear Fuel

14

High-Level Radioactive Waste Management

16

Low Level Radio Active Waste Disposal

18

Seismic Margin Evaluation of Civil-engineered Structures at Nuclear Power Plants

20

Development of Metal Fuel Cycle Technology for Practical Application

22

Elucidation of the Mechanisms of Low Dose Radiation Effects

24

Rational Radiation Safety Technology

26

Stable Power Supply TechnologyDiagnosis and Operation of Aged Transmission and Distribution Facilities

28

Evaluation of Damage to Electric Transmission Facilities Caused by Wind, Snow and Salt

30

Development of a Simple PCB Removal Method for Contaminated Transformers and Rapid PCB Measurement Method

32

Strategic Disaster Restoration Support Technology for Electric Power Distribution and Substation Equipment

34

Lightning Protection for an ICT Oriented Society

36

Disaster Prevention and Maintenance for Hydropower Facilities

38

Integrated Maintenance Technology for Inspection, Prediction and Monitoring

40

Expansion of fuel types and improvement of efﬁciency in IGCC

42

Utilization of Low Grade Fuels

44

Advanced Utilization Technology of Biomass and Waste

46Thermal Power Generation Systems with CO2 Capture

48

CO2 Storage Technology

50

Environment and Energy Utilization Technology（i i）

Long-term Global Warming Projection and Support for Adaptation

52

Severe Storm Prediction and Impact Assessment of Electric Facilities Under Global Warming

54

Design Support for Electric Kitchens56

Highly-Efﬁciency Heat Pump

58

Low-loss Power Semiconductors

60

Low-loss Compact Inverter Applied Equipment

62

Secondary Battery Utilization Technology

64

R&D for Safe and Reliable Solvent-free Lithium-Ion Polymer Batteries

66

Integrated Operation and Control Techniques of Supply and Demand Sides in Autonomous Demand Area Power System68Next-Generation Communication Network System

70

Evaluation of Demand Response Programs

72

Trunk Power System Planning and Operation Under Large Penetration of Intermittent Generations

74

Next Generation Electric Power Equipment for Distribution System

76

Energy Technology Strategy

78

Base Technology Subjects
Socio-economic Research Center

80

System Engineering Research Laboratory

82

Nuclear Technology Research Laboratory

84

Civil Engineering Research Laboratory

86

Environmental Science Research Laboratory

88

Electric Power Engineering Research Laboratory

90

Energy Engineering Research Laboratory

92

Materials Science Research Laboratory94

3. Principal New Research Facilities

97

4. Activities

103

Activities

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Important Notice
The Annual Research Report of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power
Industry (CRIEPI) has historically featured the achievements of some 50 research themes
selected from a large number of ongoing research themes for the ﬁscal year concerned as
its main contents. Because of the growing popularity of our website services, the conﬁguration of the Annual Research Report has been reviewed and it has been decided that theAnnual Report will introduce the overall picture of the achievements of each research subjects pursued by the CRIEPI. One emphasis is placed on project subjects, each of which is
now given two facing pages. Following this review, the part of the title indicating the yearof reporting is given as “FY 2009” to refer to the ﬁscal year in which the reported researchachievements were made instead of the previously used calendar year in which the Reportis published.

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