ε-Robust Safeguards: Minimax Hypothesis Testing for Neutron Multiplicity Counting under Physical-Layer Uncertainty

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Authors

Taku Tanaka · Kyoto University

Keiko Tanaka · Saint Luke's Health System

Toshitaka Uneoka · National University of the West

Akemi Takahashi · AkzoNobel (Netherlands)

Tomoaki Tanaka · Kyoto University

Shingo Konishi · Daikin (United States)

Reika Hosomi ·

Abstract

Standard nuclear safeguards algorithms for plutonium mass estimation via neutron multiplicity counting assume ideal measurement system parameters. However, cyber-physical threats and component aging introduce physical-layer deviations that distort obs

Topics & Keywords

Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Radioactive contamination and transfer Nuclear reactor physics and engineering

UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Publication Details

DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.176945886.60563141/v1

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