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2019 Silver Medal Award
LaRosa, Nour, Mumm, Tyra, Bergeron
AWARD CITATION
The team is honored for developing novel detector technology and then leading a multi-agency team to demonstrate its applicability for remote real-time monitoring of nuclear reactors. This is a long-standing unresolved concern for the nuclear-safeguards and nonproliferation communities. Their transportable detector system made the first-ever measurement of elusive antineutrino particles from a nuclear reactor operating on the Earth's surface, providing a pathway to avoid the use of multimillion dollar, large-volume detectors constructed deep underground.