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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.
Daisuke Taniguchi, Yuki Ishiwatari, Naoki Hirokawa, Bumpei Fujioka (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 494-502
Spent Fuel Storage Pool (SFP) Probabilistic Safety Assessment/Analyses (PSA) is one of the remarkable areas after the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Hitachi-GE developed a SFP PSA model for UK ABWR (United Kingdom Advanced Boiling Water Reactor) GDA (Generic Design Assessment) which considered the following characteristics.
? Adverse effects from reactor accident progression
? Structural integrity in case of cask drop onto SFP
? Hydrogen management in the Level 2 PSA modeling
? Seismic
? Internal Fire and Internal Flooding
