Robotic exploration of an unknown nuclear environment using radiation informed autonomous navigation

K Groves, E Hernandez, A West, T Wright, B Lennox - Robotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper describes a novel autonomous ground vehicle that is designed for exploring
unknown environments which contain sources of ionising radiation, such as might be found …

Free-moving quantitative gamma-ray imaging

D Hellfeld, MS Bandstra, JR Vavrek, DL Gunter… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to map and estimate the activity of radiological source distributions in unknown
three-dimensional environments has applications in the prevention and response to …

Radiation imaging using an integrated Radiation Imaging System based on a compact Compton camera under unit 1/2 exhaust stack of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear …

Y Sato, Y Terasaka - Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) went into meltdown
after being hit by a large tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art and challenges of non-destructive techniques for in-situ radiological characterization of nuclear facilities to be dismantled

K Amgarou, M Herranz - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reports on the state-of-the-art of the main non-destructive assay (NDA)
techniques usually used for in-situ radiological characterization of nuclear facilities subject …

Radiation imaging of a highly contaminated filter train inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station unit 2 using an integrated Radiation Imaging System based on …

Y Sato, Y Terasaka - Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) suffered a meltdown in
the aftermath of the large tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred …

A portable geometry-independent tomographic system for gamma-ray, a next generation of nuclear waste characterization

S Tortajada, F Albiol, L Caballero, A Albiol… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
One of the main activities of the nuclear industry is the characterisation of radioactive waste
based on the detection of gamma radiation. Large volumes of radioactive waste are …

Radiation image reconstruction and uncertainty quantification using a Gaussian process prior

J Lee, TH Joshi, MS Bandstra, DL Gunter, BJ Quiter… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We propose a complete framework for Bayesian image reconstruction and uncertainty
quantification based on a Gaussian process prior (GPP) to overcome limitations of maximum …

Path planning for localization of radiation sources based on principal component analysis

T Kishimoto, H Woo, R Komatsu, Y Tamura, H Tomita… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose a path planning method for the localization of radiation sources
using a mobile robot equipped with an imaging gamma-ray detector, which has a field of …

The nuclear legacy today of fukushima

K Vetter - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) following the Great
East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in March 2011 changed people's …

Coded aperture and Compton imaging capability of spherical detector system design based on GAGG scintillators: A Monte Carlo study

X Liang, L Shuai, Y Liu, X Li, L Kong, Q Wei… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the study of this paper, based on the symmetry of regular icosahedron, a spherical
detector system for 4 π field-of-view (FOV) gamma imaging was proposed based on 80 …