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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
