Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling

Abstract On 6 January 2016, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced to have conducted its fourth nuclear test. Analysis of the corresponding seismic waves from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site showed indeed that an underground man-made explosion took place, although the nuclear origin of...

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Autores principales:	Pieter De Meutter, Johan Camps, Andy Delcloo, Piet Termonia
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f5cfec9ba03a4727be527b8ba417f3012021-12-02T12:32:21ZAssessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling10.1038/s41598-017-07113-y2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/f5cfec9ba03a4727be527b8ba417f3012017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07113-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract On 6 January 2016, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced to have conducted its fourth nuclear test. Analysis of the corresponding seismic waves from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site showed indeed that an underground man-made explosion took place, although the nuclear origin of the explosion needs confirmation. Seven weeks after the announced nuclear test, radioactive xenon was observed in Japan by a noble gas measurement station of the International Monitoring System. In this paper, atmospheric transport modelling is used to show that the measured radioactive xenon is compatible with a delayed release from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. An uncertainty quantification on the modelling results is given by using the ensemble method. The latter is important for policy makers and helps advance data fusion, where different nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty monitoring techniques are combined.Pieter De MeutterJohan CampsAndy DelclooPiet TermoniaNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
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description	Abstract On 6 January 2016, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced to have conducted its fourth nuclear test. Analysis of the corresponding seismic waves from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site showed indeed that an underground man-made explosion took place, although the nuclear origin of the explosion needs confirmation. Seven weeks after the announced nuclear test, radioactive xenon was observed in Japan by a noble gas measurement station of the International Monitoring System. In this paper, atmospheric transport modelling is used to show that the measured radioactive xenon is compatible with a delayed release from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. An uncertainty quantification on the modelling results is given by using the ensemble method. The latter is important for policy makers and helps advance data fusion, where different nuclear Test-Ban-Treaty monitoring techniques are combined.
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title	Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling
title_short	Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling
title_full	Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling
title_fullStr	Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling
title_sort	assessment of the announced north korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2017
url	https://doaj.org/article/f5cfec9ba03a4727be527b8ba417f301
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Assessment of the announced North Korean nuclear test using long-range atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling

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