Development of compact Compton camera for 3D image reconstruction of radioactive contamination

放射性物質の3次元可視化に向けた小型・軽量コンプトンカメラの開発

佐藤 優樹  ; 寺阪 祐太   ; 小澤 慎吾*; 宮村 浩子  ; 冠城 雅晃   ; 谷藤 祐太 ; 川端 邦明   ; 鳥居 建男  

Sato, Yuki; Terasaka, Yuta; Ozawa, Shingo*; Miyamura, Hiroko; Kaburagi, Masaaki; Tanifuji, Yuta; Kawabata, Kuniaki; Torii, Tatsuo

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., went into meltdown after the large tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Very large amounts of radionuclides were released from the damaged plant. Radiation distribution measurements inside the building of FDNPS are indispensable to execute the decommission tasks in the reactor buildings. We have developed a light-weight compact Compton camera to three-dimensionally measure the distribution of radioactive contamination inside FDNPS. The total weight of the Compton camera is lower than 1.0 kg. The -ray sensor of the Compton camera employs the Ce-doped GAGG scintillators coupled with a multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.,). We performed the 3D image reconstruction of the Cs-radioactive sources as shown in Fig. 1; the 3D radiation image is reconstructed using the multi-angle data measured with the Compton camera. Here, we introduce the development status of the 3D radiation imaging system consisting of the Compton camera. Moreover, we present the results of a performance evaluation test for 3D image reconstruction of radioactive contaminations in details.