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Description
Since the beginning of their activities in 2015, the muography group of the Institute for Research on the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (IRFU-CEA-France) has been continuously evolving their muon telescopes (based on micromegas detectors) as well as their analysis methods. This allowed the performance of different experiments, going from civil engineering to archaeology, including the nuclear domain. It s in the latter topic where the activities have been more focused in the last years. Among them, the surveillance of nuclear reactors before its dismantling or the characterization of nuclear waste containers stand up.
In this talk a summary of IRFU's muography activities will be presented, summarizing the latest advances on the instrumentation of the used muon telescopes and emphasizing latest results of performed experiments, specially those related to Nuclear domain. This includes the characterization of a Nuclear Reactor before its dismantling, for which a validation of the inner structure with respect to the existing models has been done as well as the first 3D muon tomography ever made for such a big object. Moreover prospects of new projects on Nuclear Reactor surveillance and Nuclear Waste containers control will be also presented.
