Published November 5, 2015
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Report
Imaging Spent Fuel in Dry Storage Casks with Cosmic Ray Muons
Creators
- 1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- 2. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Washington, DC (United States)
Description
Highly energetic cosmic ray muons are a natural source of ionizing radiation that can be used to make tomographic images of the interior of dense objects. Muons are capable of penetrating large amounts of shielding that defeats typical radiographic probes like neutrons or photons. This is the only technique which can examine spent nuclear fuel rods sealed inside dry casks.
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 3 p.
- Report number
- LA-UR--15-28684
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 47001546
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CASKS; COSMIC MUONS; DRY STORAGE; FUEL RODS; IMAGES; PROBES; SPENT FUELS; TOMOGRAPHY
- Descriptors DEC
- CONTAINERS; COSMIC RADIATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY SOURCES; FERMIONS; FUEL ELEMENTS; FUELS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATERIALS; MUONS; NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIATIONS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; STORAGE
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- AC52-06NA25396
- Funding organization
- USDOE (United States)
- Secondary number(s)
- OSTIID--1225563