
Increasing amounts of spent nuclear fuel are stored in dry storage casks for prolonged periods of time. To date no effective technology exists to re-verify cask contents should this become necessary. We explore the applicability of Coherent-Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) to monitor the content of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from dry storage casks. SNF produces neutrinos chiefly from $^{90}$Sr decays. We compare these results with what can be achieved via Inverse Beta Decay (IBD). We demonstrate that at low nuclear recoil energies CEvNS events rates exceed the IBD event rates by 2--3 orders of magnitude for a given detector mass. We find that a 10\,kg argon or germanium detector 3 meters from a fuel cask can detect over 100 events per year if a nuclear recoil threshold under 100 eV can be achieved.
5 pages, 3 figures
neutrino, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), scattering, FOS: Physical sciences
neutrino, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), scattering, FOS: Physical sciences
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