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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
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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.
Bret Patrick van den Akker (ORNL)
Proceedings | 16th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2017) | Charlotte, NC, April 9-13, 2017 | Pages 615-621
We present the analytical solution to the one-dimensional radionuclide transport equation in Laplace transform space. Our model accommodates an arbitrary-length decay chain, an arbitrary combination of host rocks (i.e., an arbitrary combination of multiply fractured and porous transport segments), and a flexible source term (i.e., an arbitrary time-dependent release mode at the entrance point to the series of transport segments). The Laplace transformed analytical solution can be numerically inverted to obtain the time-dependent concentration of the radionuclides of interest at an arbitrary down gradient location. This represents an extension of the previously1 developed model to include the feature of hydrodynamic longitudinal dispersion. This additional feature is important because hydrodynamic dispersion is known to reduce the time of first arrival in radionuclide transport models. Increased fidelity in transport pathway calculations is important for reliable performance assessment for the geological disposal of spent nuclear fuels.