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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.
Patrick F. O’Rourke, Scott D. Ramsey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S264-S294
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2343119
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The Grigoriev-Meleshko Method, an indirect Lie group theory method, is used to derive the symmetry determining equations (SDEs) of the neutron transport equation (NTE) and the coupled delayed neutron precursor equations (DNPEs). A solution to the SDEs is a Lie group of transformations that can be used to reduce the order of the NTE and DNPEs or outright solve the equations. We found several solutions of the SDEs and worked through the mathematical algorithm to demonstrate relationships of instantiations of the NTE and its known solutions with the Lie groups. Examples of solutions include the Lie group that allows for the transformation of the differential form of the NTE to the integral form of the NTE; the Lie groups that permit Case’s solution; and the Lie group used to transform from the NTE to the α-eigenvalue form of the NTE.