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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.
Abdurrahman Ozturk, Jonathon Gardner (Univ of South Carolina), Kyle Brinkman, Lindsay Shuller-Nickles (Clemson Univ), Travis W. Knight (Univ of South Carolina)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 628-634
A MOOSE (Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment) based application, TREX, has been developed for modeling and simulation of advanced ceramic waste forms at multiple length scales. A method was developed for incorporating microstructural details at the mesoscale and computing effective material properties that can then be applied at the engineering scale capable of modeling the entire waste form. The work described includes the creation of Kernel, Material, and Postprocessor objects necessary to model the advanced ceramic waste form. Using these developed tools, the diffusion of cesium was modeled in a hollandite waste form. Experimental data and first principle calculations taken from the literature were used to inform models of the hollandite material properties.