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Report on the recent
IAEA Workshop on Antineutrino Detection
for Safeguards Applications
Andrew Monteith
Division of Technical Support
Department of Safeguards
Outline
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Overview of IAEA activities
Overview of Novel Technologies work
Results from the workshop
Discussion of roadmap for development
The future of Safeguards
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IAEA Safeguards Objectives
• Safeguards are applied by the IAEA to verify
the correctness and completeness of
declarations made by States about the
exclusively peaceful use of their nuclear
material and activities and thereby reducing
the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Safeguards Implementation
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~ 900 facilities in 71 countries
~ 2,100 inspections/year
~ 250 Safeguards Inspectors
Limited funding ~ €110M regular budget
Improving implementation through
• Additional Protocol
• Integrated Safeguards (IS) Approach
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IAEA SG Techniques / Equipment in use
Wide variety of safeguards equipment/techniques
such as:
•Non Destructive Analysis (NDA)
•Containment and Surveillance (C/S)
• Containment verification
• Seals
• Cameras
•Destructive Analysis (DA)
•Environmental Sampling (ES)
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Novel Detection Technologies
Nuclear Fuel Cycle (NFC)
Nuclear Fuel Cycle (NFC)
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Novel Detection Technologies
NFC Indicators / Signatures
“Indicators”
“Signatures”
Entities that go into
making the process
operative
Entities produced by
the process when it is
in operation
Examples:
• Resources
Nuclear
Nuclear Fuel
Fuel
Cycle
Cycle Process
Process
• Required
materials
• Produced materials
• Process by-products
• Facility design
NFC Process
• Related R&D
e.g. Enrichment
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Examples:
Reprocessing
• Energy emanations
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Conversion
Reactor
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Areas of Interest
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Background to the Workshop
• Direct follow up to Meeting to Evaluate
Potential Applicability of Antineutrino
Detection – held at IAEA HQ, December
2003
• What were the conclusions of the 2003
meeting?
• What were the recommendations of the
2003 meeting?
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Background to the Workshop
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What has happened since then?
Who attended the 2008 workshop?
Objective of the 2008 workshop
Content of the workshop
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Conclusions of the Workshop
• The meeting concluded that antineutrino detectors have
unique abilities to nonintrusively monitor reactor operational
status, power and fissile content in near realtime, from
outside containment.
• Several detectors, built specifically for safeguards
applications, have demonstrated robust, long-term
measurements of these metrics in actual installations at
operating power reactors, and several more
demonstrations are planned.
• It was agreed that the detector design is sufficiently robust
and mature as to allow a reusable module to be developed
that could be adapted to specific reactors.
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Recommendations of the Workshop
The following recommendations were made by the workshop:
• It was recommended that the IAEA consider antineutrino detection and
monitoring in its current R&D program for safeguarding bulk-process
reactors;
• It was recommended that the IAEA should also consider antineutrino
monitoring in its Safeguards by Design approaches for power and
fissile inventory monitoring of new and next generation reactors;
• It was recommended that there should be further interaction between
IAEA and the antineutrino research and development (R&D)
community, including regular participation of IAEA safeguards
departmental staff into international meetings;
• It was recommended that IAEA safeguards departmental staff visit
currently deployed and planned neutrino detection installations for
safeguards applications;
• It was recommended the IAEA work with experts to consider future
reactor designs, using existing simulation codes for reactor evolution
and detector response.
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Roadmap
• Things that the Agency can do
• Seek out need and prioritize
• Issue ‘SP-1’ to MSSP
• Things that our MSSPs can do
• Present a clear vision of what antineutrino
detection can offer the Agency
• Decide on individual state or joint approach from
a technical standpoint
• Seek out possible sources of funding and
resources (lab + field testing, facilities etc.)
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The future of Safeguards?
• In late 2007, the Director
General established a
Commission of Eminent Persons
to review the current activities
and make recommendations
regarding the future activities
and priorities of the IAEA in the
light of recent and expected
developments relevant to the
Agency’s mission.
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Nuclear power growth
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Growth in inspection effort
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Building towards the future
• Open for discussion
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