2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of an inexpensive screening radiation detector for confidence in food

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24658113
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Food science
Research Institution	Hokkaido University
Principal Investigator	KANEKO Junichi 北海道大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90333624)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	TAKADA Eiji 富山高等専門学校, 電子情報学系, 教授 (00270885)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	食品 / 放射能 / スクリーニング / 放射線検出器
Research Abstract	Confidence in food was required after broad area radiation contamination caused by nuclear accident in the Fukushim Daiichi nuclear power plant. In this study, an inexpensive radiation detector measuring radioactivity for retail shops and/or direct marketing farmers. This detector was designed to made best use of self-shielding of food itself. In size of 1.25 x 1.25 x 3.0 cm^3 of CsI(Tl) scintillator was assumed, and it was reveled to achieve screening level of 50 Bq/kg within 22 minute for rice in 5 kg. In addition, it took only several minutes to determine that radioactivity is lower than 100 Bq/kg.

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