Remote Reactor Monitoring

Technical Report · Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1174289· OSTI ID:1174289

Bernstein, Adam ^[1]; Dazeley, Steve ^[1]; Dobie, Doug ^[1]; Marleau, Peter ^[2]; Brennan, Jim ^[2]; Gerling, Mark ^[2]; Sumner, Matthew ^[2]; Sweany, Melinda ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
2. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (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 out to distances of many hundreds of kilometers.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-07NA27344
• OSTI ID: 1174289
• Report Number(s): LLNL-TR-663012
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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