Analysis of muon radiography of the Toshiba nuclear critical assembly reactor

C. L. Morris; Jeffery Bacon; Yuichiro Ban; Konstantin Borozdin; J. M. Fabritius; Mikio Izumi; Haruo Miyadera; Shinya Mizokami; Yasuyuki Otsuka; John Perry; John Ramsey; Yuji Sano; Tsukasa Sugita; Daichi Yamada; Noriyuki Yoshida; Kenichi Yoshioka

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Analysis of muon radiography of the Toshiba nuclear critical assembly reactor

C. L. Morris, Jeffery Bacon, Yuichiro Ban, Konstantin Borozdin, J. M. Fabritius, Mikio Izumi, Haruo Miyadera, Shinya Mizokami, Yasuyuki Otsuka, John Perry, John Ramsey, Yuji Sano, Tsukasa Sugita, Daichi Yamada, Noriyuki Yoshida, Kenichi Yoshioka

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A 1.2 × 1.2 m² muon tracker was moved from Los Alamos to the Toshiba facility at Kawasaki, Japan, where it was used to take ∼4 weeks of data radiographing the Toshiba Critical Assembly Reactor with cosmic ray muons. In this paper, we describe the analysis procedure, show results of this experiment, and compare the results to Monte Carlo predictions. The results validate the concept of using cosmic rays to image the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.

Original language	English
Article number	024110
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	104
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4862475
State	Published - Jan 13 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Morris, C. L., Bacon, J., Ban, Y., Borozdin, K., Fabritius, J. M., Izumi, M., Miyadera, H., Mizokami, S., Otsuka, Y., Perry, J., Ramsey, J., Sano, Y., Sugita, T., Yamada, D., Yoshida, N., & Yoshioka, K. (2014). Analysis of muon radiography of the Toshiba nuclear critical assembly reactor. Applied Physics Letters, 104(2), Article 024110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4862475

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