A team of German researchers has secured a 1.3 million euro grant from Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection that will allow exploration of imaging processes for reactor safety research.
The investigators are based at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) and are part of a team called RIMANUS (Innovative Radiation-based Imaging Techniques for Nuclear Safety Research). The project is being conducted at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and will use ultrafast electron beam CT to make liquid-gas flows in pipelines visible to the human eye at up to 5,000 frames per second, according to HZDR.
"Our objective for the RIMANUS project is to take these x-ray imaging techniques a step further to generate 3D images and create greater beam energy for nuclear safety research," RIMANUS project leader Dr. Michael Wagner said in a statement released by TU Dresden.