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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.
Genki Tanaka, Naoto Kume, Susumu Naito, Hirotada Hayashi, Ryuji Hirooka, Hideyuki Nisawa (Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corp.)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 1211-1213
The feedback reactivity measurement was conducted in the Monju Core Confirmation Test in 2010. Two reactivity parameters related either to power and to the core inlet coolant temperature were evaluated within 5% accuracy based on the reactivity measured with the inverse kinetics technique. We confirmed that this advanced method is applicable to the fast reactor operation and shorten the duration of the experiment for the feedback coefficients evaluation.