Emission and transmission tomography systems to be developed for the future needs of Jules Horowitz material testing reactor

Petri Kotiluoto (Corresponding Author), Frej Wasastjerna, Tommi Kekki, Heikki Sipilä, Kukka Banzuzi, Petri Kinnunen, Liisa Heikinheimo

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    Abstract

    The new 100 MW Jules Horowitz material testing reactor will be built in Cadarache, France. It will support, for instance, research on new types of innovative nuclear fuel. As a Finnish in-kind contribution, 3D emission and transmission tomography equipment will be delivered for both the reactor and the active component storage pool. The image reconstruction of activities inside the used nuclear fuel will be based on gamma spectrometry measurements. A new type of underwater digital X-ray linear detector array is under development for transmission imaging, based on GaAs and direct conversion of X-rays into an electrical signal. A shared collimator will be used for both emission and transmission measurements. Some preliminary design has been performed. For the current design, the expected gamma spectrometric response of a typical high-purity germanium detector has been simulated with MCNP for minimum and maximum source activities (specified by CEA) to be measured in future.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)61-63
    Number of pages3
    JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
    Volume607
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2009
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • Digital X-ray detector
    • Emission and transmission tomography
    • GaAs
    • Gamma spectrometry
    • Jules Horowitz reactor
    • MCNP

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