Nome
Novel Opaque Scintillator Technology for Nuclear Industry Imaging based on Anti-Matter Detection

Código
AntiMatter-OTech - Grant agreement No 101047028

Entidade Beneficiária

LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas

Sumário do Projecto

AntiMatter-OTech (often referred to as “AM-OTech” for short) is a project devoted to the exploration of novel nuclear industry instrumentation using, for the first time, antineutrinos as a direct probe into the functioning of industrial nuclear reactors.

The AntiMatter-OTech project aims to reverse today’s paradigm so that the antineutrinos, resulting from nuclear fission, may be employed as a direct and non-intrusive probe in industrial nuclear reactors. In this way, we explore whether the outcome of state-of-the-art fundamental research today could push the boundaries of knowledge practical for industry, thus serving society. Therefore, AntiMatter-OTech is designed to complement today’s existing information about the instantaneous state of a nuclear reactor when running or even stopped. The technology may be powerful enough to provide critical diagnoses to unique reactor-compromised scenarios, such as at Fukushima Daiichi (Japan), where information cannot be obtained using other means. In general, data from antineutrinos is expected to complement the existing thermo-nuclear information used for reliable nuclear reactor diagnosis today. The goal is to provide an extra layer of information — including correlations to existing knowledge — that may enhance diagnostics and improve reactors’ running and even safety today. Beyond nuclear reactors, the remote and non-intrusive monitoring paradigm of the AntiMatter-OTech technology natively may serve the UN‘s IAEA framework for non-proliferation and, similarly, it may benefit the insight into other nuclear facilities.

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Suporte sob

Reforçar a investigação, o desenvolvimento tecnológico e a inovação

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