• jonne
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    1 year ago

    Could these be used to locate nuclear submarines and the like?

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      1 year ago

      No. This is a map of estimated antineutrino rates generated from known data.

      Data from a theoretical detector that can calculate where its detected neutrinos came from from could be compared to this to find anomalies, but we’re not there yet

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      Probably not, unless the military is hiding some next level tech.

      For example, the current generation of detectors, nearly all of which weigh upwards of a ton, have to be placed within tens of meters of a reactor’s core—inside a facility’s fence.

      https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/36