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Kitayama, Yoshiharu
Gamma Ray Imaging; Technology and Applications, p.165 - 179, 2023/00
A gamma-ray imager is a powerful tool for visualizing the distribution of radioactive materials. Recently, it has been applied to the decommissioning site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. At the decommissioning site, an imager compact, lightweight, and capable of quantitative evaluation of radioactivity is demanded. The Gamma-ray Imager using Small-Angle Scattering (GISAS) was proposed as a gamma-ray imager that meets all these requirements. GISAS consists of several shield-free directional gamma-ray detectors that detect only small-angle Compton scattering. Simulations and experiments verified the feasibility of the shield-free directional gamma-ray detectors. The shield-free directional gamma-ray detector consists of a scatterer that detects small-angle Compton scattering and an absorber that detects the scattered gamma rays. By setting an appropriate energy window for each detector, only scattering events that can be considered almost straightforward are detected. Through simulations and experiments, we have confirmed that using a silicon drift detector as the scatterer and a Gd3Al2Ga3O12 scintillator as the absorber, we can detect only small-angle Compton scattering events and obtain directionality for 662 keV gamma rays.
Kitayama, Yoshiharu; Terasaka, Yuta; Sato, Yuki; Torii, Tatsuo
Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, 7(4), p.042006_1 - 042006_7, 2021/10
Kitayama, Yoshiharu; Terasaka, Yuta; Sato, Yuki; Torii, Tatsuo
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To ensure the safety of workers working at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS), a technology to measure the distribution of radioactive materials in the working environment is required. In order to develop a new gamma-ray imager that can compensate for the shortcomings of existing gamma-ray imagers, the feasibility of a gamma-ray detector that does not require a shield was examined by simulation. There are pinhole cameras and a Compton camera as a technology for imaging radioactive material distribution. Since the pinhole camera can identify the source direction in one event, the image reconstruction is easy, and there is a possibility that it can be applied to quantitative measurement. However, the total weight is too heavy to be suitable for remote measurement because a shield is required. Since the Compton camera does not require a shield, it is small and light, and remote measurement is possible. However, multiple events are required to estimate the source direction, and the cone drawn at that time becomes noise, and the S/N ratio of the image is lowered. We propose a novel gamma-ray imager such as a pinhole camera that does not require shields. In this study, we verified the principle of a directional gamma-ray detector that does not require a shield.
Kitayama, Yoshiharu; Terasaka, Yuta; Sato, Yuki; Torii, Tatsuo
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Kitayama, Yoshiharu; Terasaka, Yuta; Sato, Yuki
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no abstracts in English
