Radiation measuring and sorting device and radiation measuring and sorting method

Abstract

Providing a transporting mechanism 2 for transporting an introduced target object 100 in a fixed transportation direction F1, a measuring device 40 for measuring the radiation of the target object 100 being transported by the transporting mechanism 2, a sorting mechanism 3 for sorting the target object 100 disposed at a downstream end of the transporting mechanism 2 based on the measurement result of the measuring device 40, and a control unit 5 for controlling the operation of a transporting belt 20 of the transporting mechanism 2 and a sorting belt 30 of the sorting mechanism 3. The sorting mechanism 3 is disposed so that an operating direction F2 of the sorting belt 30 intersects an operating direction F1 of the transporting belt 20 and is capable of forward and reverse rotation. When the measurement result changes, the control unit 5 stops the transporting belt 20 after a specific time period has passed, discharges the target object 100 on the sorting belt 30 to the outside, releases the stopping of the transporting belt 20, and causes the sorting belt 30 to rotate in reverse.

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