The industrial iDREAM detector for neutrino monitoring of the operating modes of nuclear reactors

Abstract

The neutrino method for monitoring the operating modes of nuclear reactors was proposed and tested in the 1980s–1990s at the Kurchatov Institute. Recent progress in the experimental techniques for antineutrino detection has enabled the development of projects that are focused on the introduction of techniques that are used in fundamental research in the nuclear-power industry. We report on the current status of the development of a test prototype of the iDREAM (industrial Detector for REactor Antineutrino Monitoring) detector. The detector is a scintillation spectrometer that is based on a liquid organic scintillator with a sensitive volume of 1 m3 and is constructed with due regard for the current experience in the design of the most extensively studied detectors of reactor antineutrinos of this type.