Measurement of burnup of nuclear fuel in a reactor by neutrino emission

Prospects for observation of neutrino-nuclear neutral current coherent scattering with two-phase Xenon emission detector

“…Beyond the great impact on fundamental physics and verification of the Standard Model with observation of the neutrino coherent scattering [24] the project leads to development of a relatively compact and effective detector of nuclear reactor antineutrinos. Such a device could be used for  monitoring the output power of an industrial reactor [25,28];  monitoring reactor fuel burnup [26,27];  diagnostics of critical situations [29].…”

Detection of Breeding Blankets Using Antineutrinos

“…This is well met by reactor antineutrinos and, therefore, CENNS is a physically viable detection channel for CANs. The signal from an antineutrinonucleus interaction in this channel is a very small nuclear recoil with maximum energy determined by (5) where M N = (Z + N )u is the atomic weight of the target nuclei, Z denotes the number of protons in the target nuclei, and N is the number of neutrons in the target nuclei. The CENNS scattering cross section is (neglecting the small nuclear recoil energy term and the nuclear form factors, i.e., treating the nucleon distribution within the nucleus as spherically homogenous)…”

Brazilian Report on Safeguards Application of Reactor Neutrinos

“…One of the first demonstration experiments was performed in a neutrino laboratory located in the nuclear power plant at Rovno -Ukraine. The relationship between neutrino counting rate and the reactor activity was clearly shown, so the neutrino radiation could be, in principle, used for such purposes [8,9]. This scenario described above opens up solid perspectives for the use of neutrinos as reliable probes of the physical processes in which they participate.…”