National Data Centres (NDCs) responsible for nuclear weapon test verification face a critical analytical challenge: systematically identifying radionuclide samples that may share common source regions. Current tools from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) fragment workflows across separate applications for spectrum analysis, timeseries visualization, and atmospheric transport modeling, forcing analysts to manually compare samples through ad hoc Excel-based methods. We present RaDIA (Radionuclide Data Integration and Analysis), a visual analytics dashboard that integrates sample metadata, isotopic measurements, and source-receptor sensitivity (SRS) fields into coordinated multiple views. RaDIA implements a spatial overlap detection algorithm that quantifies associations between samples by calculating shared grid cells in backward atmospheric trajectories, visualized through interactive maps, temporal Sankey diagrams, and sortable tables. Through Research-through-Design with three NDCs, we show that RaDIA addresses documented workflow gaps by consolidating fragmented tools, thereby alleviating user effort, and enabling systematic sample association. Our work suggests how domain-specific visual analytics can strengthen analytical capacity for smaller NDCs in high-stakes verification contexts.
Late-Breaking Report accepted at EICS 2026: Visual Analytics for Nuclear Test Verification
RaDIA: Visual Analytics for Systematic Sample Association in Nuclear Weapon Test Verification Workflows
Our late-breaking report "RaDIA: Visual Analytics for Systematic Sample Association in Nuclear Weapon Test Verification Workflows" (PDF) has been accepted at EICS 2026 in Patras, Greece. This is work by Stian Verherstraeten together with Christophe Gueibe (SCK CEN), Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, and myself.