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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Bo Xu, Han Li, Lei Zhang, Helin Gong
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 6 | June 2025 | Pages 873-887
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2403895
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The aging process or flow-induced vibration of reactor cores may lead to increased mechanical vibrations, affecting the reliability of in-core sensors and necessitating a robust solution for robust field reconstruction. This work tackles the challenges of reconstructing multiphysics fields from sparse and movable measurements by introducing an advanced framework that integrates various machine learning models with Voronoi tessellation. Our approach, building upon the Voronoi tessellation-assisted Convolutional Neural Network (VCNN), expands the capabilities to include a wider array of neural network architectures such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), Dilated ResNet Encode-Process-Decode (DilResNet), Dilated Convolution Neural Operator (DCNO), Galerkin Transformer (GT), U-shaped Neural Operator (UNO), and Multiwavelet-based Operator (MWT). The effectiveness of these models is evaluated and validated through numerical tests based on the International Atomic Energy Agency benchmark, particularly noting average relative errors below 5% and 10% in the norm and norm, respectively, within a 5-cm amplitude around sensor nominal locations. The developed software toolkit encapsulates these architectures, providing a versatile option for nuclear engineers to reconstruct different types of physical fields efficiently.