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100 1 _ |a Aymanns, Katharina
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245 _ _ |a Investigating Muon Tomography for Safeguarding Geological Repositories
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520 _ _ |a Nuclear energy has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with many countries set to expand their nuclear power plant fleets. As a result, safeguarding the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle is attracting more and more attention. Most countries in the world plan to finally store the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants in deep geological repositories (GRs) several hundred metres underground, while the spent fuel, i.e. large quantities of nuclear material, will remain under safeguards. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verifies the GR design information declared by States. Design information verification (DIV) in general is intended to confirm the features and characteristics of a nuclear facility through on-site physical examination of the facility during all stages of the facility’s life cycle. However, performing DIV activities at GRs may become more challenging in the operational phase and even more so in the post-closure phase. In this context, muon tomography is a powerful tool that can provide critical information about the overburden of a prospective underground facility. Muon tomography would be able to identify unknown features such as voids or undocumented tunnels that have not been declared prior to the construction of a GR. This extended abstract presents the results of a simulation study investigating the application of muon tomography for safeguarding spent fuel in a geological repository (GR), and evaluating the technical performance of the technology. A key result of these simulations is that large underground features may be detected in timescales of tenths of days.
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