Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop 2023

Session

Neutrino applications

6

18 Sept 2023, 15:25

The Guildhall York

Conveners

Neutrino applications: Session 1

• Tomi Akindele (LLNL)

Neutrino applications: Session 2

• Yan-Jie Schnellbach (RWTH Aachen University)

16. Nu Tools: Exploring Practical Roles for Neutrinos in Nuclear Energy and Security

Michael Foxe (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

18/09/2023, 15:25

Talk

The Nu Tools study was developed to explore the potential roles for neutrino within nuclear energy and nuclear security. This effort differs from previous neutrino detector studies as it is focused on the potential utilities and determining if there is a possible use case for neutrino detectors as a monitoring technology. Due to the importance of understanding potential use cases, this effort...

47. Nuclear Safeguards: Monitoring of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Dr Yan-Jie Schnellbach (RWTH Aachen University)

18/09/2023, 15:45

Talk

37. Sensitivity Tool for Antineutrino Monitoring of Small Modular Reactors

Andrew Conant (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

18/09/2023, 16:05

Talk

While reactor antineutrino detection has been performed at current commercial and research reactors, their detection at advanced reactors poses new challenges. The NuTools study identified that neutrino detection could play a role in the safeguards of advanced reactors, such as small modular reactors (SMRs). Several SMR concepts focus on the operation of multiple modules, often within the same...

31. Establishing Antineutrino-based Safeguards Using the State-level Concept

Mr Caiser Bravo (Georgia Institute of Technology)

18/09/2023, 16:25

Talk

Antineutrino detection systems have potential to safeguard the next generation of nuclear reactors. In theory, these systems can be implemented for status verification, reactor power monitoring, and special nuclear material diversion detection. Previous studies have investigated the applicability of this technology using models and simulations, but are often heavily reliant on various...

46. Scalability of Gd-doped water-Cherenkov reactor-antineutrino IBD detectors for non-proliferation

Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

18/09/2023, 16:45

Talk

Recent advances in large water-Cherenkov detector technology, such as doping water with gadolinium at Super-Kamiokande, highlight the feasibility of detecting antineutrinos from power reactors hundreds of kilometers away.

However, in the context of nuclear non-proliferation, detecting power reactors is generally not considered a challenge using more traditional detection techniques. Of more...

27. An antineutrino-based detection concept for non-intrusive site-wide reactor monitoring

steven dazeley (lawrence livermore national laboratory)

19/09/2023, 09:00

Talk

Future advanced reactor designs may use liquid fuel or uncountable numbers of small fuel elements. Such designs will be difficult or impossible to monitor for safeguards via traditional item accountancy techniques. One way to address this issue, being pursued by the U.S. Dept of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy Material Protection Accounting and Control Technologies (MPACT), is to develop...

17. SNIFR - Submarine Neutrino Identification For Reconnaissance

Alex Goldsack (King's College London)

19/09/2023, 09:20

Talk

We are now in an era where the sensitivity and scalability of neutrino detectors allows for more intimate investigation into nuclear reactors at range. The reactors deployed on nuclear submarines have a thermal power output around an order of magnitude lower than that of power reactors, but a scalable detector technology could be deployed on a large commercial ship to detect submarines at a...