Speaker
Patrick Huber
Description
The majority of spent nuclear fuel is kept in dry storage casks and no method to verify their contents currently exists short of opening the cask under water. Neutrino emissions from strontium-90 persist for many decades but due to the low endpoint energy these neutrinos are exceedingly difficult to detect via inverse beta decay. We present first results indicating that CEvNS detectors with a mass of the order 10kg could provide a meaningful verification of cask contents.
