Publications related to Radioactive contamination

Teaching about non-deterministic physics: an almost forgotten fundamental contribution of Marie Curie

The first historical steps of radioactivity research offer an excellent opportunity to teach a key concept of modern physics: non-deterministic phenomena. However, this opportunity is often wasted because of historical misconceptions and of the irrational ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Characterization of a flexible a-Si:H detector for in vivo dosimetry in therapeutic x-ray beams

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Matthew James Large

BackgroundThe increasing use of complex and high dose-rate treatments in radiation therapy necessitates advanced detectors to provide accurate dosimetry. Rather than relying on pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) measurements alone, many countries are now ...

Wiley2024

On-Chip Fully Reconfigurable Artificial Neural Network in 16 nm FinFET for Positron Emission Tomography

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Andrada Alexandra Muntean

Smarty is a fully-reconfigurable on-chip feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) with ten integrated time-to-digital converters (TDCs) designed in a 16 nm FinFET CMOS technology node. The integration of TDCs together with an ANN aims to reduce system ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Performance evaluation of radon active sensors and passive dosimeters at low and high radon concentrations

Dusan Licina, Joan Rey

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that has the potential to accumulate in buildings and over time, causes lung cancer in humans. Present methods for radon measurements are disparate, which pose challenges to benchmark radon concentrations and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Autodigit-RAD: Towards an automation of the radon’s concentration dataflow in a new and innovative building

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Sebastian Duque Mahecha

Radon is a noble, natural, and radioactive gas coming mainly from the ground which might accumulate indoors and lead each year to 200-300 deaths from lung cancer in Switzerland. A brand new and innovative living lab will be built as of 2023 in Fribourg (Sw ...

2023

The X-Point radiating regime at ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Marco Wischmeier, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Bernhard Sieglin

Future fusion reactors require a safe, steady-state divertor operation. With deep divertor detachment, which is typically induced by impurity seeding, the radiation concentrates in a small region at the X-point or on closed flux surfaces above the X-point. ...

Elsevier2023

Testing For The Rank Of A Covariance Operator

Victor Panaretos

How can we discern whether the covariance operator of a stochastic pro-cess is of reduced rank, and if so, what its precise rank is? And how can we do so at a given level of confidence? This question is central to a great deal of methods for functional dat ...

INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS-IMS2022

Studies on the mechanical evolution of compacted bentonite subjected to environmental actions

Jose Antonio Bosch Llufriu

Deep geological disposal is currently the most feasible option for the long-term isolation of radioactive waste, consisting in emplacing the waste into tunnels or drifts excavated at great depths in suitable geological formations. The use of bentonite, a h ...

EPFL2021

A New Concept of Sensor for Ultra-high Levels of Radiation based on Radiation Enhanced Oxidation of Copper Thin-films

Georgi Gorine

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is the envisioned particle accelerator to be installed in the Geneva area (Switzerland). It could achieve an energy of 100 TeV by colliding proton beams (FCC-hh) travelling through a 100 km tunnel. Unprecedented radiation ...

EPFL2020

Mid- and long-term outcome of Salter's, Pemberton's and Dega's osteotomy for treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

Introduction: Early diagnosis and early treatment have become the gold standard for management of developmental dysplasia of the hip. Surgery is required in case of failed initial treatment. Innominate pelvic osteotomy of Salter (SIO), Pemberton's pericaps ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2020

Modeling of the response function of CdTe detectors for a hard X-ray synthetic diagnostic

Stefano Coda, Joan Decker, Dahye Choi

The response function of CdTe detectors used in a hard X-ray spectrometer system (HXRS) on the TCV tokamak fusion experiment is modeled based on the measured energy spectra from multiple gamma-ray sources. The response function consists of an asymmetric Ga ...

2020

High-Fidelity Determination of Nuclide Inventories for Radioactive Waste Disposal

Valentyn Bykov

The general license application (RBG) for the Swiss deep geological repository will be submitted in 2024. Furthermore, the decommissioning of the nuclear power plants (NPPs) is coming soon, with the Mühleberg NPP (KKM) scheduled to shut down in 2019. In su ...

EPFL2019

The thermal triple-axis-spectrometer EIGER at the continuous spallation source SINQ

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow

EIGER is the new thermal triple-axis-spectrometer at the continuous spallation SINQ at PSI. The shielding of the monochromator consists only of non- or low magnetizable materials, which allows the use of strong magnetic fields with the instrument. This shi ...

Elsevier2017

Pre-dismantling THM modelling of the FEBEX in situ experiment

Lyesse Laloui, Yafei Qiao, Alessio Ferrari

FEBEX (Full-scale Engineered Barrier Experiment in Crystalline Host Rock) is a research and demonstration project that was initiated by ENRESA (Spain). The aim of the project is to study the behaviour of near-field components in a repository for high-level ...

NAGRA2017

Pre-dismantling THM modelling

FEBEX (Full-scale Engineered Barrier Experiment in Crystalline Host Rock) is a research and demonstration project that was initiated by ENRESA (Spain). The aim of the project is to study the behaviour of near-field components in a repository for high-level ...

2017

Quantitative analysis of deformation in hollow cylinder tests on anisotropic clay formations

Vincent Labiouse, Gioacchino Viggiani, Shuang You

A series of triaxial laboratory experiments are performed on thick-walled hollow cylindrical samples of boom clay. The aim of this testing program is to better understand the anisotropic deformation during the excavation. The testing conditions are similar ...

2015

The Fukushima Inverse Problem

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Juri Ranieri, Robin Scheibler, Marta Martinez-Camara

Knowing what amount of radioactive material was released from Fukushima in March 2011 and at what time instants is crucial to assess the risk, the pollution, and to understand the scope of the consequences. Moreover, it could be used in forward simulations ...

2013

Hyperpolarization without persistent radicals for in vivo real-time metabolic imaging

Mor-Miri Mishkovsky, Christophe Roussel, Andrea Capozzi, Jean-Noël Hyacinthe, Tian Cheng, Arnaud Comment, Najat Salameh, Yuhei Takado, Tim Rolf Eichhorn

Hyperpolarized substrates prepared via dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization have been proposed as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents for cancer or cardiac failure diagnosis and therapy monitoring through the detection of metabolic impairments in v ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

A 20-bit dynamic range CMOS A/D converter for ionization chambers

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Bernd Dehning

We present the design of a wide dynamic-range CMOS A/D interface circuit for ionization chambers, able to digitize input charge of both polarities over six decades, to operate in a radioactive environment, and foreseen working without calibration. The circ ...

IEEE2011

Interaction between BaCO3 and OPC/BFS composite cements at 20 degrees C and 60 degrees C

Emmanuel Gallucci

A BaCO3 slurry, containing radioactive C-14, is produced during the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. This slurry is encapsulated in a Portland-blastfurnace slag composite cement. The effect of BaCO3 on the hydration of OPC and Portland-blastfurnace slag ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2011