Nuclear Technology 3 - Researchers Exploring Muon Technology For Monitoring Radioactive Materials - Part 3 of 5 Part
Part 3 of 5 Parts (Please read Parts 1 and 2 first)
For three months in 2016, the team recorded the tracks of almost a half a million muons. The tracks were used to determine which of the twenty-four fuel assembly slots in the cask actually contained fuel assemblies and which of the slots were empty. They successfully identified full and empty slots in four out of six slot groupings.