TY  - CONF
AU  - Bonomi, Germano
AU  - Andretto, Paolo
AU  - Benettoni, Massimo
AU  - Checchia, Paolo
AU  - Gonella, Franco
AU  - Lorenzon, Altea
AU  - Zumerle, Gianni
AU  - Jussofie, Astrid
AU  - Balling, Markus
AU  - Aymanns, Katharina
AU  - Niemeyer, Irmgard
AU  - Ancius, Darius
AU  - Murtezi, Mentor
TI  - MUTOMCA: AN EXPERIMENT TO INVESTIGATE SPENT FUEL CASKS WITH MUON TOMOGRAPHY
M1  - FZJ-2023-00698
SP  - 1-8
PY  - 2022
AB  - Spent fuel stored in thick-walled strongly shielding casks can be indirectly verified through the application ofcontainment and surveillance measures. Assuring Continuity of Knowledge (CoK) of the spent fuel stored in dry spent fuelstorage facilities (SFSFs) for the upcoming decades is a cornerstone of safeguards. In the unlikely event that all Safeguardsrelatedcontainment and surveillance measures fail, a cask would need to be opened in the loading pond of a reactor. Therefore,substantially improved re-verification capabilities applicable to dry SFSFs are to be aimed at. The development of an adequatenon-destructive (re)-verification method for casks, proving the unchanged inventory of the verified spent fuel, would be a realadvantage for safeguards.Muon tomography could be a suitable method for the re-verification of self-shielding thick-walled spent fuel casks.To prove that the technology can detect the diversion of fuel assemblies, a two-modules muon detector has been designed andbuilt. It will be installed in the proximity of a spent fuel cask during a field test at a dry SFSF in Germany. The status of theproject and preliminary results will be presented.
T2  - IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards
CY  - 31 Oct 2022 - 4 Nov 2022, Vienna (Austria)
Y2  - 31 Oct 2022 - 4 Nov 2022
M2  - Vienna, Austria
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)8
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/917485
ER  -