Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2024

Nanoporous scintillators for radioactive gas detection

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The measurement of pure beta emitting radioactive elements such as 3H and 85Kr, is a major and a mandatory measurement for nuclear safety authorities issue for the monitoring of the territory, in particular for the monitoring of the expending nuclear activities for the carbonfree production of electricity. The short penetration length of these electrons in the air makes their detection very difficult. It requires mixing the radioactive gas with the sensitive element which is done with ionization chamber (gas-gas mixture) or liquid scintillation (gas-liquid mixture for 3H only). However, these two methods do not meet all the needs since neither of them combines sensitivity to both gases, real-time analysis, and ease of wide deployment on the territory. Here we demonstrate that the new approach, based on the gas-solid mixture, allows to combine all the criteria allowing the efficient and real time detection of tritium and 85Kr, and more generally of pure beta radioactive elements. We show that by synthesizing a transparent and scintillating nanoporous material, here a highly porous aerogel based on doped inorganic scintillators, we detect in real time with an efficiency of 95% and 20% the 85Kr and the 3H (illustrative results are presented Figure 1). We achieve sub-Bq.cm-3 in 100 s of accumulation, which is the best performance obtained so-far in real time. In this contribution, the latest results in terms of new materials characteristics including timeresolved luminescence, and detection performances will be presented.
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cea-04938900 , version 1 (10-02-2025)

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Raphaël Marie-Luce, Pavlo Mai, Frédéric Lerouge, Yannis Cheref, Sylvie Pierre, et al.. Nanoporous scintillators for radioactive gas detection. 12th international conference on Luminescent Detectors and Transformers of Ionizing Radiation, University of Latvia; European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS); SIA Baltic Scientific Instruments, Jun 2024, Riga, Lithuania. ⟨cea-04938900⟩
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