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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cali, Claudio
• Cosentino, Luigi
• Litrico, Pietro
• Pappalardo, Alfio
• Scire, Carlotta
• Scire, Sergio
• Vecchio, Gianfranco
• Finocchiaro, Paolo
• Alfieri, Severino
• Mariani, Annamaria

Titel

On-line remote monitoring of radioactive waste repositories

Ist Teil von

• EPJ Web of conferences, 2014-01, Vol.79, p.1-7

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A low-cost array of modular sensors for online monitoring of radioactive waste was developed at INFN-LNS. We implemented a new kind of gamma counter, based on Silicon PhotoMultipliers and scintillating fibers, that behaves like a cheap scintillating Geiger-Muller counter. It can be placed in shape of a fine grid around each single waste drum in a repository. Front-end electronics and an FPGA-based counting system were developed to handle the field data, also implementing data transmission, a graphical user interface and a data storage system. A test of four sensors in a real radwaste storage site was performed with promising results. Following the tests an agreement was signed between INFN and Sogin for the joint development and installation of a prototype DMNR (Detector Mesh for Nuclear Repository) system inside the Garigliano radwaste repository in Sessa Aurunca (CE, Italy). Such a development is currently under way, with the installation foreseen within 2014.