In this paper, we estimate how quickly and how precisely a reactor's operational status and thermal power can be monitored over hour to month time scales, using the antineutrino rate as measured by a cubic meter scale detector. Our results are obtained from a detector we have deployed and operated at 25 m standoff from a reactor core. This prototype can detect a prompt reactor shutdown within 5 h and monitor relative thermal power to within 7 days. Monitoring of short-term power changes in this way may be useful in the context of International Atomic Energy Agency's reactor safeguards regime or other cooperative monitoring regimes. © 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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Bernstein, A., Bowden, N. S., Misner, A., & Palmer, T. (2008). Monitoring the thermal power of nuclear reactors with a prototype cubic meter antineutrino detector. Journal of Applied Physics, 103(7). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2899178
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