Designing a muon scattering scanner for nuclear debris measurement.
Appl Opt
; 63(6): A52-A58, 2024 Feb 20.
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Removal of fuel debris is planned to start at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. During the removal, it is desirable to distinguish fuel debris from radioactive wastes and to sort the fuel debris accordingly to the amounts of nuclear material contained. Muon scattering tomography invented at Los Alamos in the early 2000s is highly sensitivity to high-atomic-number materials such as uranium. A muon scanner to sort the debris is designed and currently in production. One of the challenges is to operate the muon scanner in the presence of high γ-ray radiations from the debris muon-event-identification electronics and a muon-tracking algorithm in the presence of high γ-ray radiations were developed.
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