Selected Publications:

• Hecla, J., and A. Danagoulian. Nuclear Disarmament Verification Via Resonant Phenomena. Nature Communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 1259.

• Cramer, A., Hecla, J., Wu, D., Lai, X., Boers, T., Yang, K., Moulton, T., Kenyon, S., Arzoumanian, Z., Krull, W. and Gendreau, K. Stationary Computed Tomography for Space and other Resource-constrained Environments. Scientific Reports, 8(1), p.14195 (2018)

• Kuang, A. Q., N. M. Cao, A. J. Creely, C. A. Dennett, J. Hecla, B. LaBombard, R. A. Tinguely et al. Conceptual Design Study for Heat Exhaust Management in the ARC Fusion Pilot Plant. Fusion Engineering and Design 137 (2018): 221-242.

• Hecla, J., K. Knecht, D. Gunter, A. Haefner, D. Hellfeld, T. H. Y. Joshi, A. Moran, V. Negut, R. Pavlovsky, and K. Vetter. Polaris-LAMP: Multi-Modal 3-D Image Reconstruction With a Commercial Gamma-Ray Imager. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 68, no. 10 (2021): 2539-2549.

• Berliner, A. J., and J. Hecla. Nuclear History, Politics, and Futures from (A)toms-to (Z)oom: Design and Deployment of a Remote-Learning Special-Topics Course for Nuclear Engineering Education. In Frontiers in Education, vol. 7, p. 868052. Frontiers Media SA (2023).

• Hecla, J., Kambarian, E., Tubbs, R., McKinley, C., Berliner, A.J., Russell, K., Spatola, G., Chertok, J., Braun, W., Hank, N. and Marquette, C. Radioactive Contamination in Feral Dogs in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: Population Body-Burden Survey and Implications for Human Radiation Exposure. PloS one, 18(7), p.0283206 (2023).

• Hecla, J., A. Bernstein, S. Dazeley, and O. A. Akindele. A Long Path-Length Optical Property Measurement Device for Highly Transparent Detector Media. Journal of Instrumentation 18.09 (2023): P09004.​

• Akindele, O. A., Bernstein, A., Bergevin, M., Dazeley, S. A., Sutanto, F., Mullen, A., & Hecla, J. . Exclusion and Verification of Remote Nuclear Reactors with a 1-kiloton Gd-doped Water Detector. Physical Review Applied, 19(3), 034060 (2023)

• ​Hecla, J., O. Akindele, S. Dazeley, A. Bernstein, and E. Gunger. Measurements of Attenuation and Scattering Properties of Water-Based Liquid Scintillator. Physical Review D 111, no. 5 (2025): 052005.

 

Conference Proceedings:

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• Knecht, K., Gunter, D., Haefner, A., Hecla, J., Hellfeld, D., Joshi, T. H. Y., ... & Vetter, K. 3D Compton Imaging of Distributed Sources around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. In 2021 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) (pp. 1-4) (2021).

• Hecla, J., Dazeley, S., Akindele, O., & Bernstein, A. An Apparatus for Light Attenuation and Scattering Measurements in Highly Transparent Media. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 66 (2021).

• Bernstein, A., Akindele, T., Djurcic, Z., Lebanowski, L., Migenda, J., Papatyi, A., .. Hecla, J.,.. & Chen,

• M. A Call to Arms Control: Synergies between Nonproliferation Applications of Neutrino Detectors and Large-Scale Fundamental Neutrino Physics Experiments: A Snowmass White Paper (2022).

• Hecla, J., et al. A Modular, Portable and Static Computed Tomography System for Resource-Constrained Environment. Proceedings of the IEEE 36th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC) (2023).

• Gunger, E., Bernstein, A., Dazeley, S., Enqvist, A., & Hecla, J. LASE Characterizations of Neutrino Detector Media Optical Properties. Proceedings of the 2024 Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting (2024).

• Fang, Y., Gupta, A.P., Tivnan, M., Hecla, J., Desai, D., Wu, D., Yang, K., Moulton, T., Krull, W. and Gupta, R. Head-to-Head Comparison of Analog-Filament vs Digital-CNT X-Ray Sources: A Paradigm Shift in Radiology. In Medical Imaging 2025: Physics of Medical Imaging (Vol. 13405, pp. 680-688) SPIE (2025).

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Patents, Mass Media Publications and Others

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• Hecla, J., Knecht, K., Vetter, K., Joshi, T., Haefner, A., & Pavlovsky, R. Three-Dimensional Radiation Mapping at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Nuclear Decommissioning and Environment Recovery (INUDECO) (2021).

• Sengbusch, Evan R., Arne V. Kobernik, Eli C. Moll, Christopher M. Seyfert, Ross F. Radel, Mark Thomas, and Jake Hecla. System and method for performing active scanning of a nuclear fuel rod. U.S. Patent 10,896,768, issued January 19, 2021.

• Gupta, Rajiv, Wolfgang Krull, Jake Hecla, Avilash Cramer, Steven Kenyon, Zaven Arzoumanian, and Keith Gendreau. Tomographic imaging system. U.S. Patent 10,895,540, issued January 19, 2021.

• Hecla, J. Mobile Nuclear Power Reactors Won’t Solve the Army’s Energy Problems. War on the Rocks, 14 Dec. 2021. https://warontherocks.com/2021/12/mobile-nuclear-power-reactors-wont-solve-the-armys-energy-problems/.

• Berliner, A. J., J. Hecla, M. Bondin, A. Mullen, E. Osorio Camacena, A. Droster, D. Ermakova, T. S. Nagel, N. L. Nappi, K. J. Oosterbaan, S. R. Stevenson, C. D. Willett, E. F. Matthews, M. Lee, K. van Bibber, Michael Nacht. As Tensions Mount on Ukraine’s Borders, It’s Time to Understand What Led to the INF Treaty’s Demise. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 16 Feb. 2022. https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/as-tensions-mount-on-ukraines-borders-its-time-to-understand-what-led-to-the-inf-treatys-demise.

• Shoker, S., Reddie, A., Barrington, S., Brundage, M., Chahal, H., Depp, M., Drexel, B., Gupta, R., Favaro, M., Hecla, J. and Hickey, A. Confidence-Building Measures for Artificial Intelligence: Workshop Proceedings. (2023).