Reactor antineutrino monitoring with a plastic scintillator array as a new safeguards method

Abstract

We developed a segmented reactor-antineutrino detector made of plastic scintillators for application as a tool in nuclear safeguards inspection and performed mostly unmanned field operations at a commercial power plant reactor. At a position outside the reactor building, we measured the difference in reactor antineutrino flux above the ground when the reactor was active and inactive.

25 pages, 9 figures; Typos in Figure 6 corrected

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