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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Ira Charak
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 5 | May 1967 | Pages 283-286
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27886
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Sutton's diffusion equation, which is commonly used for the computation of atmospheric dispersion of fission products, is modified to account for the effect of dilution of the fission products due to mixing of the contaminated air inside the reactor building with clean air prior to exhaust. The effect of radioactive decay is also considered. The resulting integral equation is solved for a specific example using a Romberg integration subroutine and the application of the equation to a washout calculation is described.