scholarly journals The design and performance of a scintillating-fibre tracker for the cosmic-ray muon tomography of legacy nuclear waste containers

2014 ◽  
Vol 745 ◽  
pp. 138-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Clarkson ◽  
D.J. Hamilton ◽  
M. Hoek ◽  
D.G. Ireland ◽  
J.R. Johnstone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Tomography ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals First-of-a-kind muography for nuclear waste characterization

2018 ◽  
Vol 377 (2137) ◽  
pp. 20180048 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mahon ◽  
Anthony Clarkson ◽  
Simon Gardner ◽  
David Ireland ◽  
Ramsey Jebali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Imaging System ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Laboratory Facility ◽  
Waste Container ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

In the last decade, there has been a surge in the number of academic research groups and commercial companies exploiting naturally occurring cosmic-ray muons for imaging purposes in a range of industrial and geological applications. Since 2009, researchers at the University of Glasgow and the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) have pioneered this technique for the characterization of shielded nuclear waste containers with significant investment from the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd. Lynkeos Technology Ltd. was formed in 2016 to commercialize the Muon Imaging System (MIS) technology that resulted from this industry-funded academic research. The design, construction and performance of the Lynkeos MIS is presented along with first experimental and commercial results. The high-resolution images include the identification of small fragments of uranium within a surrogate 500-litre intermediate level waste container and metal inclusions within thermally treated GeoMelt® R&D Product Samples. The latter of these are from Lynkeos' first commercial contract with the UK National Nuclear Laboratory. The Lynkeos MIS will be deployed at the NNL Central Laboratory facility on the Sellafield site in Summer 2018 where it will embark upon a series of industry trials. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Cosmic-ray muography’.

scholarly journals A Prototype Scintillating-Fibre Tracker for the Cosmic-ray Muon Tomography of Legacy Nuclear Waste Containers

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 10005 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kaiser ◽  
A. Clarkson ◽  
D. J. Hamilton ◽  
M. Hoek ◽  
D. G. Ireland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Tomography

scholarly journals Characterising encapsulated nuclear waste using cosmic-ray muon tomography

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (03) ◽  
pp. P03020-P03020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Clarkson ◽  
D.J. Hamilton ◽  
M. Hoek ◽  
D.G. Ireland ◽  
J.R. Johnstone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Tomography

scholarly journals Nuclear waste imaging and spent fuel verification by muon tomography

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Jonkmans ◽  
V.N.P. Anghel ◽  
C. Jewett ◽  
M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Muon Tomography

scholarly journals INFN muon tomography demonstrator: past and recent results with an eye to near-future activities

2018 ◽  
Vol 377 (2137) ◽  
pp. 20180065 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Checchia ◽  
M. Benettoni ◽  
G. Bettella ◽  
E. Conti ◽  
L. Cossutta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Experimental Facility ◽  
Muon Tomography ◽  
European Projects ◽  
Near Future

A short description of the muon tomography demonstrator at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro near Padua, Italy, is given and the principal achievements owing to the data collected at that experimental facility are presented. In particular, the feasibility studies for several applications based on the muon-tomographic technology, within national and European projects, are discussed. The experimental problems and the procedures used to improve the performance are underlined. In addition, new activities and the related detector optimization are illustrated. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Cosmic-ray muography’.

Cosmic-Ray Muon Tomography Setup: Long-Term Life of Drift Tube Chambers

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-261
Author(s):  
N. I. Bozhko ◽  
A. A. Borisov ◽  
A. S. Kozhin ◽  
R. M. Fakhrutdinov
Keyword(s):  
Drift Tube ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Tomography
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