Muographers2023 - International workshop on muography

Session

Nuclear waste characterization and safeguards

21 Jun 2023, 14:00

Naples

60. Chair

Dr Luigi Cimmino

21/06/2023, 14:00

20. Muon tomography for re-verification of spent fuel casks (the MUTOMCA project)

Germano Bonomi (Universita di Brescia (IT))

21/06/2023, 14:00

Nuclear waste characterization and safeguards

Oral presentation

The MUTOMCA (MUon TOMography for shielding CAsks) project investigates the suitability of muon tomography for the re-verification of spent fuel casks.
Spent fuel casks are stored, for decades, in dedicated locations and are under constant surveillance by the international agencies Euratom and IAEA through unattended monitoring equipment. In the hypothetical case that these instruments would...

1. Stand-alone cosmic-ray tomography with secondary particles

Maximilian Perez Prada (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremerhaven)

21/06/2023, 14:20

Oral presentation

Cosmic ray tomography usually focusses on two key approaches: muon transmission and muon scattering tomography. Secondary particles produced from the interaction of air shower particles with the target material have not been fully exploited so far, although they have been proven to carry complementary information directly related to the target material properties. Previous work [1] showed a...

25. Muography Activities at CEA: New adavances in nuclear surveilance

Hector Gomez Maluenda (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

21/06/2023, 14:40

Oral presentation

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...

2. Recent Developments in the Application of Cosmic-Ray Muons to Nuclear Security and Safeguards at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

D. Pérez-Loureiro

21/06/2023, 15:00

Oral presentation

Throughout the past decade, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has gained considerable expertise in the development of muon tomography techniques and algorithms for applications in nuclear waste management and safeguards verification. Two prototype muon detectors have been constructed at CNL’s Chalk River site: the Cosmic Ray Inspection and Passive Tomography (CRIPT) detector, a unique muon...

61. Chair

Dr Luigi Cimmino

21/06/2023, 15:50

44. Simulation of a cosmic ray tomography scanner for trucks and sea containers.

Dr Anzori Georgadze (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research)

21/06/2023, 15:50

Nuclear waste characterization and safeguards

Oral presentation / poster

The SilentBorder project aims to develop and construct a new high-technology cosmic ray tomography (CRT) scanner for identification of hazardous and illegal goods hidden in trucks and sea containers. The scanner is based on natural cosmic ray tomography technology that is inherently safe for people and will enable scanning of shipping containers or cargo. We report on the development of the...

34. Muons for Peace: Using muography to verify the absence of nuclear weapons.

Alexandra Datz (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University Hamburg; University of Hamburg)

21/06/2023, 16:10

Nuclear waste characterization and safeguards

poster

As of 2023, global nuclear weapon arsenals comprise approx. 13,000 warheads. Despite the renewed arms race among the nuclear weapon owners, it is the declared goal of many nations to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. While this is first a political task, technical research can support the goal by providing technical verification approaches for future international treaties. An ongoing...

39. Imaging military nuclear reactors with GScan’s detector system

Märt Mägi (GScan OU), Madis Kiisk (GScan OU & Tartu University), Andi Hektor (GScan OU & KBFI, Tallinn)

21/06/2023, 16:30

Oral presentation

Atmospheric ray tomography (ART) applies muons and electrons for imaging the 3D density and atomic composition of the scanned objects. In this talk, we will describe an industrial prototype system for ART-based technology developed by the company GScan. The prototype uses plastic scintillating fibre arrays achieving the spatial resolution 120 μm and 1 mrad angular resolution in the track...