Scintilla: A new international platform for the development, evaluation and benchmarking of technologies to detect radioactive and nuclear material
Résumé
For Homeland Security, enhanced detection and identification of radioactive sources and nuclear material has become of increasing importance. The scintilla project aims at minimizing the risk of radioactive sources dissemination especially with masked and shielded material. SCINTILLA offers the capacity to finding a reliable alternative to Helium-3 based detection systems since the gas which is predominantly used in nuclear safeguards and security applications has now become very expensive, rare and nearly unavailable. SCINTILLA benchmarks will be based on international standards. Radiation Portal testing being carried out at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy).
Mots clés
radioactive sources
shielded material
helium-3 based detection systems
nuclear security
national security
nuclear materials safeguards
fission reactor instrumentation
Homeland security
Nuclear instrumentation
Neutrons
Detector
Materials
Portals
Benchmark testing
Isotopes
instrumentation
electronic architecture
radioactivity
ionizing radiation
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