France’s Framatome said on 18 December that it is developing mobile technology for non-destructive analysis of radioactive waste containers.
Framatome, together with its partners AiNT GmbH and Fraunhofer INT, with the support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is developing a new mobile solution to reliably analyse the content of final storage containers of low and medium radioactive waste.
Using innovative QUANTOM technology, the various types of elements within the container are detected through neutron activation and can be precisely calculated.
“With our new technology, we make the opening and re-packaging of the containers unnecessary and avoid thousands of nuclear transports between the Federal State collection centres and the specialiwed laboratories at the same time, Framatome said.
In Germany, more than 50,000 containers are currently stored in ten Federal State collection centres or similar facilities, to be then transferred to the Konrad final repository in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany.
