Speaker
Haruo Miyadera
(Toshiba Corporation, 1-1-1 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8001, Japan)
Description
At Fukushima Daiichi, the removal of nuclear debris is underway, and when loading debris in a container, it is important to measure the amount of the nuclear fuel contained in the debris to reduce the storage cost by classifying the waste by the amount of contained fuel. The highly radioactive debris makes the conventional passive and active measurements using gamma rays and neutrons difficult. Muon scattering imaging is a possible method to measure the amount of uranium in the debris. A prototype muon-scattering system capable of operating under elevated radiation environments was developed at Toshiba.
Author
Haruo Miyadera
(Toshiba Corporation, 1-1-1 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8001, Japan)