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寺阪 祐太; 佐藤 優樹; 瓜谷 章*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 1062, p.169227_1 - 169227_6, 2024/05
We have developed a new position-sensitive optical fiber radiation sensor that achieves single-end readout and high dose rate application. The sensor determines the incident position of radiation on the optical fiber by using the wavelength dependency of light attenuation within the fiber. Through the analysis of the output wavelength spectrum from the fiber end, the incident position of radiation on the optical fiber can be inversely estimated using the spectrum unfolding procedure. Using this optical fiber sensor, we conducted a measurement of radiation distribution inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS). The actual trend of incident position of radiation was successfully reproduced in a high dose rate area, with a maximum dose rate exceeding 100 mSv/h. This validates the effectiveness of our new position-sensitive optical fiber radiation sensor.
佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(8), p.1013 - 1026, 2023/08
被引用回数：5 パーセンタイル：98.92(Nuclear Science & Technology)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 on 11 March 2011. A massive amount of radioactive substance was spread over a wide area both inside and outside the FDNPS site. In this study, we present an approach for visualizing a radioactive hotspot on a standby gas-treatment system filter train, a highly contaminated piece of equipment in the air-conditioning room of the Unit 2 reactor building of FDNPS, using radiation imaging based on a Compton camera. In addition to fixed-point measurements using only the Compton camera, data acquisition while moving using an integrated Radiation Imaging System (iRIS), which combines a Compton camera with a simultaneous localization and mapping device and a survey meter, enabled the three-dimensional visualization of the hotspot location on the filter train. In addition, we visualized the hotspot and quantitatively evaluated its radioactivity. Notably, the visualized hotspot location and estimated radioactivity value are consistent with the accident investigation report of the FDNPS. Finally, the extent to which the radioactivity increased the ambient dose equivalent rate in the surrounding environment was explored.
Sr/Y and 
Cs radioactivity寺阪 祐太; 瓜谷 章*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 1049, p.168071_1 - 168071_7, 2023/04
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.02(Instruments & Instrumentation)A new application of a position-sensitive liquid light guide Cerenkov counter for the simultaneous position detection of Sr/Y and Cs radioactivity in a gamma-ray-dominant environment is proposed. 
-emitting Sr/Y and 
-emitting Cs radioactive point sources were measured using a position-sensitive liquid light guide based on the time-of-flight (TOF) method. We found a clear difference in the count rate ratio between the source position peak and reflection peak of the position histogram. Moreover, simultaneous measurements of the radioactive point sources were performed. The results suggest that the source position and activity of Sr/Y and Cs can be simultaneously determined based on the count rate ratio of the source position peak and the reflection peak.
-ray discrimination based on the property and thickness controls of scintillators using Li glass and LiCAF(Ce) in a -ray field冠城 雅晃; 島添 健次*; 寺阪 祐太; 富田 英生*; 吉橋 幸子*; 山崎 淳*; 瓜谷 章*; 高橋 浩之*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 1046, p.167636_1 - 167636_8, 2023/01
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：90.12(Instruments & Instrumentation)波形分別手法を実施せず、強い線場において熱中性子検出器をするための無機シンチレーターの厚さと性質の制御に焦点を当てた。測定では、0.5mmならびに1.0mm厚のGS20
(Liガラス)ならびにLiCaAlF
結晶(LiCAF:Ce)を採用し、上記のシンチレーターを結合させた光電子増倍管からのパルス信号を1Gspsのデジタル信号処理に入力し、360ns間の波形面積を積分した。
Coの線場において、0.5mm厚のGS20では0.919Gy/hまで中性子検出器が可能であった。一方で、0.5mm厚のLiCAF:Ceは、0.473Gy/hまで中性子検出が可能であったが、0.709Gy/hで中性子検出器が不可能であり、中性子/線分別において、GS20は、より良いエネルギー分解能と高中性子検出効率により、LiCAF:Ceよりも優れている結果であった。
寺阪 祐太; 渡辺 賢一*; 瓜谷 章*
放射線(インターネット), 47(3), p.89 - 96, 2022/10
We developed a novel single-end readout type position-sensitive optical fiber radiation sensor. This sensor measures the radiation intensity distribution along the fiber with light readout only from single end of the optical fiber. To estimate the radiation intensity distribution, we analyzed the wavelength spectrum output at single end of the fiber, which contains information about the transmission distance of light inside the fiber. Based on the unfolding of the wavelength spectrum, the radiation intensity distribution along the fiber could be estimated. The effects of wavelength channel selection and signal-to-noise ratio of the wavelength spectrum on radiation distribution estimation were evaluated. In addition, we performed that our optical fiber sensor could estimate the radiation intensity distribution under the dose rate of 3 Gy/h. The dose rate detection limit was estimated to be 21 mGy/h for the irradiation range of 20 cm.
寺阪 祐太; 渡辺 賢一*; 瓜谷 章*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 1034, p.166793_1 - 166793_6, 2022/07
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：53.91(Instruments & Instrumentation)In this study, a single-end readout type position-sensitive optical fiber radiation sensor was developed. Using the wavelength dependency of light attenuation inside the optical fiber, the incident position of radiation at the fiber can be estimated reversely. Instead of a spectrometer, we employed bandpass filters and photon-counting head as a photodetector to improve detection efficiency. The detection efficiency of a 10 m long plastic scintillation fiber at the 5 m position from the readout end was evaluated to be in the range of 0.08-0.12 % for 662 keV gamma-rays from Cs and 2.6-3.9 % for beta-rays from Sr/Y when a bandpass filter transmitting photons with a wavelength of 500 nm was used. A basic measurement test of radiation intensity distribution was conducted using a Sr/Y radioactive point source. A field test was also performed at the difficult-to-return zone in Fukushima Prefecture, and the estimated dose rate distribution roughly agreed with the survey meter measurement.
佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 59(6), p.677 - 687, 2022/06
被引用回数：17 パーセンタイル：95.64(Nuclear Science & Technology)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 March 11, 2011. Measuring and understanding the distribution of radioactive contamination inside the FDNPS is essential for decommissioning work, reducing exposure to workers, and ensuring decontamination. This paper reports the visualization tests of radioactive contamination in the Unit 1/2 exhaust stack of the FDNPS using a compact Compton camera. Fixed-point measurements were conducted using only a Compton camera and moving measurements using an integrated radiation imaging system (iRIS) that combines a Compton camera with a simultaneous localization and mapping device. For the moving measurements, an operator carrying the iRIS acquires data continuously while walking in a passage near the stack. With both types of measurements, high-intensity contamination was detected at the base of the stack, and detailed three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the contamination was obtained from the moving measurement. The fixed-point measurements estimated the source intensity of the contamination from the reconstructed contamination image acquired by the Compton camera. Furthermore, workers can experience the work environment before actual work by importing a 3D structure model into a virtual reality system displaying the contamination image.
持丸 貴則*; 小泉 光生; 高橋 時音; 弘中 浩太; 木村 祥紀; 佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太; 山西 弘城*; 若林 源一郎*
第42回日本核物質管理学会年次大会会議論文集(インターネット), 4 Pages, 2021/11
日本原子力研究開発機構では、文部科学省核セキュリティ強化等補助事業の下、大規模公共イベント等において、核・放射性物質を用いたテロ行為等を未然に防ぐため、イベント会場にそれらが持ち込まれた場合に迅速に検知するための技術・装置の開発を目的とし、広域における放射性物質検知技術開発を4年計画で進めている。本講演では、プロジェクトの概要を説明するとともに、技術開発の進捗状況を一部紹介する。
北山 佳治; 寺阪 祐太; 佐藤 優樹; 鳥居 建男
Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, 7(4), p.042006_1 - 042006_7, 2021/10
Gamma-ray imaging is a technique to visualize the spatial distribution of radioactive materials. Recently, gamma-ray imaging has been applied to research on decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) accident and environmental restoration, and active research has been conducted. This study is the elemental technology study of the new gamma-ray imager GISAS (Gamma-ray Imager using Small-Angle Scattering), which is assumed to be applied to the decommissioning site of FDNPS. GISAS consists of a set of directional gamma-ray detectors that do not require a shield. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of the shield free directional gamma-ray detector by simulation. The simulation result suggests that by measuring several keV of scattered electron energy by scatterer detector, gamma rays with ultra-small angle scattering could be selected. By using Compton scattering kinematics, a shield-free detector with directivity of about 10
could be feasible. By arranging the directional gamma-ray detectors in an array, it is expected to realize the GISAS, which is small, light, and capable of quantitative measurement.
寺阪 祐太; 渡辺 賢一*; 瓜谷 章*; 山崎 淳*; 佐藤 優樹; 鳥居 建男; 若井田 育夫
Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, 7(4), p.042002_1 - 042002_7, 2021/10
福島第一原子力発電所原子炉建物内の高線量率環境での線源分布測定への応用を目指し、波長スペクトルのアンフォールディング処理に基づく光ファイバーを用いた新しい一次元放射線分布測定法を開発した。開発した手法は光ファイバー内を伝搬する光の減衰量が波長依存であることを利用して、光ファイバー端から出力された波長スペクトルをアンフォールディングすることにより、光ファイバーへの放射線の入射位置を逆推定するというものである。この手法は光強度の積分値を利用するため、パルスカウンティングを行う放射線検出器を使用した場合に高線量率環境下で発生する計数損失や信号パイルアップの問題を回避することができる。本研究では紫外光源とSr/Y放射線源を用いた基礎実験を行い、線源位置検出の基本特性を確認した。
寺阪 祐太; 渡辺 賢一*; 瓜谷 章*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 996, p.165151_1 - 165151_8, 2021/04
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：46.8(Instruments & Instrumentation)福島第一原子力発電所建屋内における放射線分布測定を目的として、小口径石英光ファイバーの一次元位置敏感型センサーとしての基礎評価を行った。本センサーは光ファイバーと放射線の相互作用により発生するチェレンコフ光の飛行時間情報から放射線の入射位置を決定する。プラスチックシンチレーション光ファイバーを用いた従来のセンサーと比較して、石英光ファイバーは位置分解能がより優れることが分かった。これは、チェレンコフ光の発光寿命が短いことによりタイミング特性が向上したためと考えられた。加えて、本センサーの高放射線環境下での動作特性について、20mSv/hまでの出力線形性及び積算1kGyまでの耐放射線特性を評価した。
佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太; 鳥居 建男
日本原子力学会誌ATOMO
, 62(11), p.645 - 649, 2020/11
東京電力ホールディングス福島第一原子力発電所の廃炉作業を円滑に進めるにあたり、作業環境に飛散・沈着した放射性物質の分布を「見える化」して把握することは、作業者の被ばく線量の低減や詳細な作業計画の立案を行う上で重要である。ここではわれわれが福島第一原子力発電所やその周辺で行なってきた放射線イメージング技術の開発及び現場における実証例を紹介する。
佐藤 優樹; 小澤 慎吾*; 寺阪 祐太; 峯本 浩二郎*; 田村 智志*; 新宮 一駿*; 根本 誠*; 鳥居 建男
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 57(6), p.734 - 744, 2020/06
被引用回数：20 パーセンタイル：93.76(Nuclear Science & Technology)The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., suffered a meltdown as a result of a large tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. To proceed with the environmental recovery by decontamination, drawing a radiation distribution map that can indicate the distribution of radioactive substances is extremely important to establish detailed decontamination plans. We developed a remote radiation imaging system consisting of a lightweight Compton camera and a multi-copter drone to remotely measure the distribution of the radioactive substances. This system can perform radiation imaging using a Compton camera while flying and moving. In addition, it is also possible to draw the distribution of radioactive substances three-dimensionally by projecting the radiation image measured with the Compton camera on a three-dimensional topography model separately acquired by a 3D-LiDAR. We conducted a survey of radioactive hotspots in difficult-to-return zone in the coastal area of Fukushima, Japan. The drone system succeeded in three-dimensional visualization of several hotspots deposited on the ground. Such remote technology would be useful not only for monitoring the difficult-to-return zone, but also for monitoring distribution of radioactive substances inside the site of the FDNPS where decommissioning work is ongoing.
寺阪 祐太; 渡辺 賢一*; 瓜谷 章*; 山崎 淳*; 佐藤 優樹; 鳥居 建男; 若井田 育夫
Proceedings of International Youth Nuclear Congress 2020 (IYNC 2020) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2020/05
For the application in the measurement of the high dose rate hot spots inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station buildings, we propose a wavelength-resolved type one-dimensional radiation distribution sensing method using plastic scintillating fiber (PSF). The proposing method estimates the incident position of radiation to the PSF by the unfolding of the wavelength spectrum output from the fiber edge using the fact that the attenuation length of scintillating light depends on the wavelength. By measuring the response function in advance, which defined as the wavelength spectrum measured at the fiber edge by the spectrometer with every transmission distance, the spectrum which can obtain when measured a certain radiation distribution can be expressed as the convolution of the response function. This method can avoid the problem of chance coincidence effect and signal pile-up, which occurs in the radiation detector with pulse counting mode under high dose rate field because this method measures the integrated light intensity. Through basic experiment using the ultraviolet irradiation source and Sr point source, basic properties of inverse estimation of irradiated position were confirmed, which showed that source position was reasonably estimated using the response function which obtained by the ultraviolet irradiation source in advance.
北山 佳治; 寺阪 祐太; 佐藤 優樹; 鳥居 建男
Proceedings of International Youth Nuclear Congress 2020 (IYNC 2020) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2020/05
At the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), various works are under-way for decommissioning. Depending on work places, there are radioactive hotspot. Therefore measuring the position of the hotspot in advance is important for safety of the worker. The system that can easily measure the dose rate distribution in work place has been demanded. There are two methods for imaging a dose rate distribution: a pinhole camera and a Compton camera. A pinhole camera can determine direction of radiation source in one event, but the weight becomes heavy because a shield is required. On the other hand, since the Compton camera does not require a shield, it can be reduced in the size and weight. However, Compton imaging method generate many ghosts of cone traces, which reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. We propose a new gamma-ray imager that works like a pinhole camera without a shield. This is achieved by arranging directional gamma ray detectors that does not require a shield. In this work, we have performed principle verification of a directional gamma-ray detector that is a basic component of the new gamma-ray imager by using Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation.
佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太; 宇津木 弥*; 菊地 弘幸*; 清岡 英男*; 鳥居 建男
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 56(9-10), p.801 - 808, 2019/09
被引用回数：54 パーセンタイル：99.25(Nuclear Science & Technology)The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., went into meltdown in the aftermath of a large tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011. Measurement of radiation distribution inside the FDNPS buildings is indispensable to execute decommissioning tasks in the reactor buildings. We conducted a radiation imaging experiment inside the reactor building of Unit 1 of FDNPS by using a compact Compton camera mounted on a crawler robot and remotely visualized gamma-rays streaming from deep inside the reactor building. Moreover, we drew a radiation image obtained using the Compton camera onto the three-dimensional (3-D) structural model of the experimental environment created using photogrammetry. In addition, the 3-D model of the real working environment, including the radiation image, was imported into the virtual space of the virtual reality system. These visualization techniques help workers recognize radioactive contamination easily and decrease their own exposure to radiation because the contamination cannot be observed with the naked eye.
三輪 一爾; 寺阪 祐太; 越智 康太郎; 普天間 章; 佐々木 美雪; 廣内 淳
日本原子力学会誌ATOMO, 61(9), p.687 - 691, 2019/09
本報告は、日本原子力学会2019年春の年会にて実施した、保健物理・環境科学部会の企画セッションの内容をまとめたものである。本企画セッションでは、原子力・放射線分野に携わる学生および若手研究者6名が、それぞれの専門的知見を通して見た保健物理・環境科学の在り方について講演を行った。全講演者の発表終了後には来場者を含めて当分野の課題や今後の発展についてディスカッションを行った。本報告書では、各講演概要とディスカッション内容の取りまとめを行った。
佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太; 宮村 浩子; 冠城 雅晃; 谷藤 祐太; 川端 邦明; 鳥居 建男
Reactor Dosimetry; 16th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry (ISRD-16) (ASTM STP 1608), p.428 - 436, 2018/11
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.05(Nuclear Science & Technology)We developed a lightweight compact Compton camera to measure the distribution of radioactive contamination inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. We conducted performance evaluation tests in the coastal area of Fukushima, Japan, using the camera, which employs a cerium (Ce)-doped GAGG (Gd
Al
GaO
) scintillator coupled with a multipixel photon counter. The camera can clearly visualize spreading of radioactivity along the ground surface. In addition, we performed three-dimensional image reconstruction of the distribution of radioactive contamination using the multi-angle data obtained with the Compton camera. We succeeded in obtaining a three-dimensional image of radioactive contamination in the outdoor area.
佐藤 優樹; 谷藤 祐太; 寺阪 祐太; 宇佐美 博士; 冠城 雅晃; 川端 邦明; 宇津木 弥*; 菊地 弘幸*; 高平 史郎*; 鳥居 建男
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 55(9), p.965 - 970, 2018/09
被引用回数：33 パーセンタイル：96.7(Nuclear Science & Technology)The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., went into meltdown after the occurrence of a large tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. The radiation distribution measurements inside the FDNPS buildings are indispensable to execute decommissioning tasks in the reactor buildings. We conducted the radiation imaging experiment inside the turbine building of Unit 3 of the FDNPS using a compact Compton camera, and succeeded in visualizing the high-dose contamination (up to 3.5 mSv/h). We also drew a three-dimensional radiation distribution map inside the turbine building by integrating the radiation image resulting from the Compton camera into the point cloud data of the experimental environment acquired using the scanning laser range finder. The radiation distribution map shows the position of these contaminations on the real space image of the turbine building. The radiation distribution map helps workers to easily recognize the radioactive contamination and to decrease the radiation exposure; the contamination cannot be observed with the naked eye, naturally.
佐藤 優樹; 寺阪 祐太; 小澤 慎吾*; 谷藤 祐太; 鳥居 建男
Journal of Instrumentation (Internet), 13(8), p.T08011_1 - T08011_10, 2018/08
被引用回数：6 パーセンタイル：31.02(Instruments & Instrumentation)The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., suffered a meltdown after a large tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. The measurement of radiation distribution inside FDNPS buildings is indispensable for executing appropriate decommissioning tasks in the reactor's buildings. In addition, it is extremely important to accurately predict the location of radioactive contamination beforehand because the working time is limited owing to radiation exposure to workers. In this paper, a simple virtual reality (VR) system that can detect radioactive substances in virtual space has been developed to simulate real working environments. A three-dimensional (3D) photo-based model of the real working environment, including an image of the radioactive substance, was imported into the virtual space of the VR system. The developed VR system can be accessed using a smartphone and a cardboard goggle. The VR system is expected to be useful for preliminary training of workers and for recognizing radioactive hotspots during decommissioning of the work environment.
