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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.
G. Giudicelli, R. Crowder, L. Harbour, D. Gaston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S397-S405
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2332009
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MaCaw is a Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE)–based application that enables domain-decomposed neutral particle transport calculations in MOOSE. It leverages MOOSE’s ray-tracing module for unstructured mesh particle tracking and OpenMC for collision physics. Additionally, the OpenMC implementation of several calculation steps (e.g. initialization and normalization) needed in a Monte Carlo particle transport eigenvalue calculation were adapted for domain decomposition. This paper reports on MaCaw’s implementation and several limitations, a single verification case, and early single-node scaling studies. This paper also serves as an announcement of the public release of MaCaw on the Idaho National Laboratory GitHub at https://github.com/idaholab/macaw.