An Overview of Emerging Nuclear Sensor Technologies: Challenges, Advancements and Applications

Johannes Huurman; Kunal Mondal; Oscar Martinez

doi:10.3390/app15052338

An Overview of Emerging Nuclear Sensor Technologies: Challenges, Advancements and Applications

Johannes Huurman
, Kunal Mondal
, Oscar Martinez

Nuclear Materials Packaging, Transportat

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Abstract

Nuclear sensors are essential for detecting and measuring nuclear radiation in various applications, including nuclear power plants, medical imaging, and environmental monitoring. Traditional nuclear sensors have served these fields for decades, but recent advancements in emerging sensor technologies offer novel improvements in accuracy, sensitivity, and reliability. This review presents an up-to-date overview of recent progress in the advancements of nuclear sensor technologies, their diverse applications, challenges in implementation, and opportunities for future research.

Original language	English
Article number	2338
Journal	Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052338
State	Published - Mar 2025

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This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) under the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle LLC under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( https://www.energy.gov/doe-public-access-plan ) (accessed on 1 January 2025). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the ORNL Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division.

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advanced manufacturing
environmental monitoring
medical imaging
nuclear power plant
nuclear sensor

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