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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Inverse radiation modelling for plant characterisation
AU - Shippen, B.A.
AU - Adams, J.
AU - Joyce, M.J.
AU - Mellor, M.P.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A requirement to actively manage radiation dose is often the biggest single constraint in activities associated with the operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Often this management involves the minimisation of accrued dose for employees and contractors who work in the vicinity of the managed area. An important tool for evaluating the effectiveness of remediation of this dose is environmental modelling; however results are often inaccurate or misleading due to poor characterisation of the underlying source activity. In this paper we present a method for semi-automatically calculating source terms using an inverse modelling approach. This approach has been used as a basis for a new software package called N-Visage™ which has been used to demonstrate the performance of the method in both controlled experiments and real-world applications.
AB - A requirement to actively manage radiation dose is often the biggest single constraint in activities associated with the operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Often this management involves the minimisation of accrued dose for employees and contractors who work in the vicinity of the managed area. An important tool for evaluating the effectiveness of remediation of this dose is environmental modelling; however results are often inaccurate or misleading due to poor characterisation of the underlying source activity. In this paper we present a method for semi-automatically calculating source terms using an inverse modelling approach. This approach has been used as a basis for a new software package called N-Visage™ which has been used to demonstrate the performance of the method in both controlled experiments and real-world applications.
U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551109
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551109
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781467320283
SP - 284
EP - 294
BT - 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record (NSS/MIC)
PB - IEEE
ER -