A new application technique of a position-sensitive liquid light guide Cerenkov counter for the simultaneous position detection of  90Sr/90Y and 137Cs radioactivity

Terasaka, Yuta; Uritani, Akira

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2023.168071

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“…Using this noise information, we expected to evaluate the integrated dose through the fiber and estimate the presence of the radiation hot spots roughly using not only the scintillation part at the tip of the fiber. [10,11], and this fiber has an emission peak of below 600 nm. In some cases, the mapping survey can be operated in the narrow space at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants, while the diameters of the scintillation fibers are limited in the commercial lineup.…”

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Feasibility study of one-dimensional imaging with an optical fiber for radiation dose-rate monitoring system in the decommissioning process

Matsukura,

Kurosawa,

Fujiwara

et al. 2024

J. Inst.

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Real-time dose-rate monitoring system under the high dose-rate situation is required for the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plants to remove the debris remaining inside the plants. We have proposed a dose-rate monitor consisting of a scintillator, over 100-m long optical fiber and CCD spectrometer. Some noises with a dominant emission wavelength of below 550 nm originating from the optical fiber itself must be separated from the signal from the scintillator, and the signal region has been defined as 650–1000 nm to use significant data, up to now. In this paper, we investigated if the noise region defined as below 550 nm can be supporting data for the monitoring system, because such noises are expected to include position information through the fiber. In the emission spectrum, the intensities of the noise emission or absorption band are expected to depend on the position of the fiber, and we demonstrated such dependence, “one-dimensional dose-rate distribution”, with 20 m-long optical fiber and CCD spectrometer. Optical fiber was placed around a 60Co source with an activity of approximately 60 TBq, and emission spectra of the fiber were acquired with different dose-rate conditions from 10 to 700 Gy/h. The noise intensities were well fitted with the power function as a function of the product of fiber length and dose rate, and we found that fiber noise has rate information in one-dimensional imaging.

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