Establishment for the Real-time visualization system of the radioactive material transfer in the small insect living outdoors..

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About this project

Japan Grant Number
JP18K19855
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Project/Area Number
18K19855
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
Allocation Type
  • Multi-year Fund
Review Section / Research Field
  • Medium-sized Section 63:Environmental analyses and evaluation and related fields
Research Institution
  • Kyushu University
Project Period (FY)
2018-06-29 〜 2023-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
6,240,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 4,800,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 1,440,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

By using a combination of commercially available cameras, PCs, custom-made scintillators, collimators, we aimed at investigating how radioactive isotopes (RI) moves in the body of minute insects that live in nature in real time by eating substances containing RI without killing them. The goal of the research was to build a portable system that can observe these dynamics in real time at low cost. As a result of various attempts, we decided to focus on the detection of gamma rays from cesium-137 remaining after the accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and we conducted research on the construction of a gamma-ray camera using silkworm larvae. We could narrow down the problems and issues for future development of the portable gamma camera.

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