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Savannah River marks the closure of another legacy waste tank
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has received concurrence from regulators that Tank 14 at the Savannah River Site has reached preliminary cease waste removal (PCWR) status after radioactive liquid waste was successfully removed from the tank. PCWR is a regulatory milestone in the closure of SRS’s old-style waste tanks, which were built in the 1950s to store waste generated by the chemical separations of plutonium and uranium.
Su-Jin Jeon, Jae-Sang Lee, Do-Hyun Kim, Seok-Ho Hong, Chun-Sik Lee, Young-Wan Choi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 7 | July 2020 | Pages 1075-1085
Regular Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1697175
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A homography method to correct position errors generated in the Compton imaging system using a resistive network is presented. The Compton imaging system is composed of a scatterer and an absorber in multichannel arrays for high resolution and can detect gamma rays emitted from radioisotopes. Resistive networks are often used in this system to efficiently reduce the number of channels. However, this can cause position errors, and the spatial resolution deteriorates according to the resistance value of the network, type of detector array, and characteristics of the preamplifier used. Therefore, before tracking the position of the source, it is necessary to correct the position errors of images obtained from the scatterer and absorber. Also, a new correction method should consider the characteristics of the readout circuits based on the resistive network. In this work, the position errors are corrected using homography, which is a coordinate transformation method. To verify the corrections using homography transformation, we modeled the current pulse generated from the detector and designed an automatic channel selection circuit to input each channel of the resistive network. From experiments, we first obtained the positions with distortions according to the setup of readout circuits and corrected these errors by applying the homography transformation method. Consequently, the distortions were significantly corrected, and the error rates of the positions compared with those of the ideal grid were greatly reduced by up to 0.36%.