Antineutrino detector could monitor spent nuclear fuel for clandestine activity
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Scientists have measured antineutrino emissions from spent nuclear fuel for the first time, demonstrating that monitoring efforts need not stop when the reactors do. This is important because although independent nuclear safeguarding agencies have long used antineutrino emissions to glean information on reactor operations, previous detection schemes only worked when the reactors were running. Now, however, members of the Double Chooz collaboration have shown that it is possible to detect residua
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