Muon tomography is a non-destructive technique to image objects from a safe distance. It utilizes the ever-present cosmic radiation and thus does not require additional radiation sources. Due to the highly penetrating nature of muons, it is possible to image the insides of large objects, ranging from nuclear waste drums to pyramids and volcanoes. As such it is an ideal tool to determine the contents and condition of nuclear waste materials in containers like waste drums up to CASTOR storage casks.
Agenda
Muon tomography - Dr. J. Velthuis
Muon tomography in CHANCE - Dr. C. De Sio
Detection of bubbles in nuclear waste packages - Mr. M. Mhaida
Material identification of materials in nuclear waste packages - Mr. M. Weekes
Muon tomography reconstruction algorithms for small and large scale waste casks - Mr. A. Alrheli
Future outlook for muon tomography - Prof. Dr. L. Thompson
Jaap Velthuis is an associate professor in physics at the University of Bristol. Jaap started working on muon tomography in 2009 in a project to detect lumps of high-Z material hidden in shipping containers using cosmic rays to prevent nuclear...
Chiara De Sio is a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, working on Muon Tomography for nuclear waste characterisation in CHANCE. She’s mainly focussing on detector operations, as well as tracking algorithm development, and muon event...
Mohammed Mhaidra is a Ph.D. student at Warsaw University of Technology. After obtaining his Master’s degree in particle physics working in the LHCb collaboration, he started working in the CHANCE project to address the as-yet unsolved problem of...
Ahmad Alrheli started working on muon tomography in 2018 as a PhD student in the CHANCE project. He has been working on the development of the reconstruction algorithms to enhance the quality of the reconstructed images of the contents of small...
Lee Thompson is a professor of physics at the University of Sheffield where he is also head of the high energy particle physics group. Lee has more than 35 years experience as an experimental particle physicist working at CERN, Fermilab (in the...
Michael Weekes is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield researching applications of muon tomography in the nuclear and energy sectors, primarily through simulation studies. Specifically, his past research includes the development of...