Likelihood and impact of severe space weather events on the resilience of nuclear power and safeguards monitoring.

严重空间天气事件对核电和保障监督的恢复力的可能性和影响。

• 批准号: 2908918
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2027
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2027 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2908918
• 关键词: Likelihood; impact; severe; space; weather

The project aim is to increase the capability and performance of ground level neutron monitors in differentiating between neutrons of differing origin. Thus, reducing the chances of false-positive criticality alarms at nuclear licensed sites handling fissile materials and improving the resilience of nuclear power stations and power grids to geomagnetically inducted currents.The benefits of this research are twofold. A robust monitoring system for neutron detection that could reduce false positive criticality alarms at nuclear sites caused by space weather events, and providing rapid and accurate data on space weather which may damage critical infrastructure at the nuclear site (e.g., power supplies).

该项目的目标是提高地面中子监测仪区分不同来源中子的能力和性能。因此，可以减少处理裂变材料的核许可场所发生误报临界警报的可能性，并提高核电站和电网对地磁感应电流的恢复能力。这项研究的好处是双重的。强大的中子检测监测系统，可以减少空间天气事件引起的核场地误报临界警报，并提供可能损坏核场地关键基础设施（例如电源）的空间天气的快速准确数据。