Abstract: Nuclear reactors are the brightest man-made neutrino sources and have been the workhorse of neutrino physics since the discovery of the neutrino. In the 1970s Lev Mikaelyan realized that neutrinos also can be used to learn about the internal state of a nuclear reactor. The past decade has seen a significant increase in the interest in reactor neutrinos for this application, thanks to the theta-13 experiments and the search for sterile neutrinos. I will first
review the underlying physics and existing technical capabilities. In the second half of the talk I will discuss the methodology and findings of the NuTools study, which was commissioned by the Office for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development in 2019.
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Andrew Bradshaw, Sander Breur
(bradshaw@slac, sanderb@slac)