3-D Gamma-ray Mapping from Unmanned Aerial Systems for Nuclear Decommissioning - 18439

Conference · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:22977734

Haefner, A.; Pavlovsky, R.; Joshi, T. H.; Negut, V.; Suzuki, E.; Vetter, K.

Advanced gamma-ray detection technologies integrated with sophisticated robotic platforms will enable safer and more cost and time-efficient capabilities in support of nuclear decommissioning, waste management, and environmental remediation activities within the United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) complex and in the global nuclear power industry. In the Applied Nuclear Physics program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, we have developed the Nuclear Scene Data Fusion (SDF) capability to map gamma-ray emitting sources in large-scale, 3-D environments in real-time. This powerful capability has been successfully deployed in real-world environments, from a test-bed in Berkeley, CA to the exclusion zone in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan to support environmental remediation and contamination mapping efforts within evacuated communities, and is also currently being further developed in support of decommissioning efforts at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) in collaboration with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). In this work, we will provide an overview of SDF adapted for gamma-ray mapping onboard an UAS, as well as results from measurements demonstrating point and distributed source mapping. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22977734
• Report Number(s): INIS-US-20-WM-18439; TRN: US21V0362017779
• Resource Relation: Conference: WM2018: 44. Annual Waste Management Conference, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 18-22 Mar 2018; Other Information: Country of input: France; 11 refs.; Available online at: https://www.xcdsystem.com/wmsym/2018/index.html
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CONTAMINATION
FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION
GAMMA DETECTION
GAMMA RADIATION
JAEA
LAWRENCE BERKELEY LABORATORY
MAPPING
POINT SOURCES
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
REACTOR DECOMMISSIONING
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
REMEDIAL ACTION
REMOTE CONTROL
ROBOTS
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES