Radiation imaging using a compact Compton camera mounted on a crawler robot inside reactor buildings of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Y Sato, Y Terasaka, W Utsugi, H Kikuchi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), operated by Tokyo
Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., went into meltdown in the aftermath of a large …

Advances in nuclear radiation sensing: Enabling 3-D gamma-ray vision

K Vetter, R Barnowski, JW Cates, A Haefner, THY Joshi… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The enormous advances in sensing and data processing technologies in combination with
recent developments in nuclear radiation detection and imaging enable unprecedented and …

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 …

Neutron and gamma imaging using an organic glass scintillator handheld dual particle imager

R Lopez, WM Steinberger, N Giha, P Marleau… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ability to detect, localize, and characterize special nuclear material (highly enriched
uranium and plutonium) is important for nuclear security, safeguards, nonproliferation, and …

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 a compact Compton camera inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station building

Y Sato, Y Tanifuji, Y Terasaka, H Usami… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), operated by Tokyo
Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., went into meltdown in the aftermath of a large …

[HTML][HTML] Recycled hybrid material for use as shielding in operations with ionizing radiation

M Suffo, JF Molina-Pérez, F Lloret - Cleaner Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most efficient measures to prevent gamma radiation is shielding, which can take
the form of protection barriers, storage containers, wall coating, bunkers, or many others …

First demonstration of aerial gamma-ray imaging using drone for prompt radiation survey in Fukushima

S Mochizuki, J Kataoka, L Tagawa… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Considerable amounts of radioactive substances (mainly 137 Cs and 134 Cs) were
released into the environment after the Japanese nuclear disaster in 2011. Some restrictions …

Real-time free-moving active coded mask 3D gamma-ray imaging

D Hellfeld, P Barton, D Gunter… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to localize and map the distribution of gamma-ray emitting radionuclides in 3D
has applications ranging from medical imaging to nuclear security. In the case of …

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 …