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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.
Margit Fábián, Csaba Aracki (Centre for Energy Research)
Proceedings | 16th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2017) | Charlotte, NC, April 9-13, 2017 | Pages 840-847
The incorporation of actinide and actinide surrogates in borosilicate matrix was studied with uranium, cerium and neodymium. This study was carried out on matrix glasses doped respectively by 10 and 30wt% UO? while CeO?, Nd?O? was used to chemically model the actinides in the matrix. The structure was studied by Neutron diffraction combined with Reverse Monte Carlo simulations. For all studied glasses, it was found that the basic network structure consists of tetrahedral SiO? units and trigonal BO? and tetrahedral BO? units, forming mixed [?]Si-O-[3], [4]B bond-linkages. The BO?/BO? ratio was also proved by NMR spectroscopy. From the first nearest neighbour distances of U-O, Ce-O, Nd-O atomic pairs and from the second nearest neighbor atomic pair correlations we found that uranium, cerium, neodymium ions are located in the borosilicate network.