Remote Reactor Monitoring Annual Report

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1172775· OSTI ID:1172775

Marleau, Peter ^[1]; Brennan, Jim ^[1]; Gerling, Mark ^[1]; Roecker, Caleb ^[1]; Sumner, Matthew ^[1]; Sweany, Melinda ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

The overall goal of the WATCHMAN project is to experimentally demonstrate the potential of water Cerenkov antineutrino detectors as a tool for remote monitoring of nuclear reactors. In particular, the project seeks to field a large prototype gadolinium-doped, water-based antineutrino detector to demonstrate sensitivity to a power reactor at ~10 kilometer standoff using a kiloton scale detector. The technology under development, when fully realized at large scale, could provide remote near-real-time information about reactor existence and operational status for small operating nuclear reactors.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1172775
• Report Number(s): SAND2014-18022R; 537715
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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