{"id":123705,"date":"2021-06-11T19:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T02:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/portable-technology-offers-boost-for-nuclear-security-arms-control"},"modified":"2021-06-11T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T02:23:17","slug":"portable-technology-offers-boost-for-nuclear-security-arms-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/portable-technology-offers-boost-for-nuclear-security-arms-control","title":{"rendered":"Portable technology offers boost for nuclear security, arms control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/portable-technology-offers-boost-for-nuclear-security-arms-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About five years ago, Areg Danagoulian, associate professor in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), became intrigued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osti.gov\/biblio\/1245561\">a technique<\/a> developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory that uses a neutron beam to identify unknown materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could look into a black box containing uranium and say what kind and how much,\u201d says Danagoulian, who directs MIT\u2019s Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics (LANPh). \u201cI was thinking about the problem of verifying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nuclear+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear material<\/a> in warheads, and it just dawned on me, this amazing technology could be applied to what we\u2019re working on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there was a problem: This method, called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron<\/a> resonance transmission analysis (NRTA), requires an enormous, expensive apparatus, limiting its utility for the kind of on-site nuclear material applications Danagoulian and his research colleagues focus on. To leapfrog this obstacle, they determined to make NRTA technology portable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About five years ago, Areg Danagoulian, associate professor in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), became intrigued by a technique developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory that uses a neutron beam to identify unknown materials. \u201cThey could look into a black box containing uranium and say what kind and how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,219,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}