Program – Seminar – VR funded projects on New Nuclear Technology
Time: 8 September, 2020, 9:00 – 16:00, Web-seminar on Zoom. Contact Mattias Thuvander for Zoom connection information.
9:00 Welcome (Mattias Thuvander)
9:10 Henryk Anglart, KTH – Heat Transfer to Supercritical Water in fourth Generation Reactors
9:30 Christophe Demaziere, Chalmers – Development of a Hybrid Neutron Transport Method for Static and Dynamic Calculations and Application to Fast Reactor Systems
9:45 Sophie Grape, UU – Nuclear Safeguards Verification of Spent Fuel in MYRRHA
10:00 Debora Trombetta, KTH – Fast Time Correlations between Neutrons and Gamma Irradiation for Nuclear Safeguards in Gen-IV Systems
10:15 Break
10:30 Sergei Butorin, UU – Advanced Materials for Generation IV Nuclear Reactor Fuel
10:50 Stephan Schönecker, KTH – High Entropy Alloys for Advanced Reactor Applications
11:10 Mattias Thuvander, Chalmers – Novel Steels for Lead-Cooled Generation 4 Nuclear Reactors
11:30 Pär Olsson, KTH – Magnetism and Chemical Disorder in Gen IV Nuclear Materials
11:45 Lunch break
13:00 Andreas Solders, UU – Measurements of Independent Fission Yield for Next Generation Nuclear Power
13:20 Ali Al-Adili, UU – Exact Fission Yields for Future Nuclear Energy Systems
13:35 Sara Bortot, KTH – Development of Passive Safety Design Approaches and Self-Actuated Shut-Down Systems for an Inherently Safe, Efficient and Reliable Operation of Gen-IV Fast Reactors
13:55 Teodora Retegan Vollmer, Chalmers – Reactor Safety from a Chemistry Perspectiveof Lead or Lead/Bismuth Cooled Gen IV Reactors
14:10 Break
14:25 Marcus Hedberg, Chalmers – Method Development for Removal of Carbon/Carbide Impurities during Nitride Fuel Production
14:45 Mats Jonsson, KTH – Gen IV Fuel Stability in Aqueous Systems
15:05 Christian Ekberg, Chalmers – Actinide Nitrides for Gen IV Systems, Remaining Chemical Questions and Recyclability
15:20 Peter Andersson, UU – Diagnostics of Nuclear Fuel for Generation IV
15:40 Summary and final comments (Mattias Thuvander)
16:00 End
