Reactor neutrino spectra and their application to safeguards

After this review, recent results on how neutrino spectroscopy could be used to monitor plutonium production in a wide range of reactor types are presented. Detailed estimates for the sensitivity to the plutonium content of various types of reactors are provided, including most types of plutonium production reactors, based on detailed reactor simulations. A key finding of this study is that a wide class of reactors with a thermal power of less than 0.1-1 GWth can be safe-guarded achieving IAEA goals for quantitative sensitivity and timeliness with detectors right outside the reactor building. This type of safeguards does not rely on the continuity of knowledge and provides information about core inventory and power status in real-time