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@ARTICLE{Aymanns:1038526,
      author       = {Aymanns, Katharina and Bonomi, Germano and Niemeyer,
                      Irmgard and Checchia, Paolo and Benettoni, Massimo and
                      Mosconi, Marita and Montecassiano, Fabio and Jussofie,
                      Astrid and Balling, Markus and Andreetto, Paolo and Bez,
                      Nicola and Castellani, Lorenzo and Conti, Enrico and
                      Lorenzon, Altea and Zumerle, Gianni and Turcato, Matteo and
                      Pekkarinen, Juha and Dackner, Johan},
      title        = {{M}uon {T}omography for {R}everification of {S}pent {F}uel
                      {C}asks(the {MUTOMCA} {P}roject)},
      journal      = {Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in Science},
      volume       = {2024},
      number       = {1},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2025-01511},
      pages        = {1},
      year         = {2024},
      abstract     = {The MUTOMCA (MUon TOMography for shielding CAsks) project
                      investigates the suitability of muontomography for the
                      reverification of spent fuel casks. Spent fuel casks are
                      stored, for decades, in dedicatedlocations and are under
                      constant surveillance by international agencies through
                      unattended monitoringequipment. In the hypothetical case
                      that these instruments would temporarily fail, thus leading
                      to a lossof Continuity of Knowledge (CoK), a reverification
                      of the spent fuel enclosed in self-shielding casks wouldbe
                      required. The reverification is particularly challenging for
                      conventional nondestructive assay (NDA)methods since
                      thick-walled spent fuel casks considerably attenuate the
                      radiation emitted by the spent fuel.On the other hand,
                      inspectorates need a high degree of assurance on the amounts
                      of nuclear materialstored in those casks.With the aim of
                      proving the ability of muon tomography to detect a diversion
                      of fuelassemblies in closed spent fuel casks, an
                      experimental apparatus was designed, developed,
                      constructed,and commissioned. The detectors were used during
                      the first months of 2023, in a field trial at a dry
                      storagefacility in Germany to examine CASTOR®V/19 casks.
                      Preliminary results are presented along with thepotentials
                      and drawbacks of the experimental apparatus.},
      cin          = {IFN-2},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)IFN-2-20101013},
      pnm          = {1411 - Nuclear Waste Disposal (POF4-141)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-1411},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      doi          = {10.31526},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1038526},
}