3-D Radiation Field Reconstruction for a Facility With Multiple Radioactive Sources

Abstract

Abstract The radiation field measurement and surveying play important roles in optimizing and planning operation work in the radioactive area. In this work, a 3-D radiation field reconstruction method is applied to reconstruct a 3-D radiation field of a facility with two radioactive drums and a shielding, not limited to the existing methods under two-dimensional grids. A numerical scheme of the method is introduced. Monte Carlo simulation of the gamma radiation field was performed to be an original field so that the reconstruction results can be verified. Random and regular sampling ways are taken into consideration while the sampling rates are kept at 4.12%. Quantitative evaluation of the results evaluates MSE (mean relative error) and MRE (mean squared error), MRE is kept at less than 4%, which shows a good reconstruction accuracy of the method in almost all 3D space. The work in this paper has good reference value for applications such as radiation field detection, inversion, and reconstruction, operations under radioactive environments like nuclear waste decommissioning, and nuclear power radiation modeling.