Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Employing antineutrino detectors to safeguard future nuclear reactors from diversions

  • Christopher Stewart,
  • Abdalla Abou-Jaoude,
  • Anna Erickson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11434-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Nuclear reactors can be used for energy generation or for dangerous weapons and therefore their monitoring is crucial. Here the authors discuss detecting antineutrino from a nuclear reactor and use it for nuclear safeguards in a diversion scenario.