Evaluation and Uncertainty of a New Method to Detect Suspected Nuclear and WMD Activity: Project Report
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)
The Atmospheric Technology Group at SRNL developed a new method to detect signals from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) activities in a time series of chemical measurements at a downwind location. This method was tested with radioxenon measured in Russia and Japan after the 2013 underground test in North Korea. This LDRD calculated the uncertainty in the method with the measured data and also for a case with the signal reduced to 1/10 its measured value. The research showed that the uncertainty in the calculated probability of origin from the NK test site was small enough to confirm the test. The method was also wellbehaved for small signal strengths.
- Research Organization:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-08SR22470
- OSTI ID:
- 1395967
- Report Number(s):
- SRNL-STI-2017-00630; TRN: US1800070
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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