A new sodium cooled fast reactor design. SACLAY, France

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1 A new sodium cooled fast reactor design SACLAY, France 9 Doctoral-level Courses in Advanced Nuclear Science From September 20 to December 3 rd, 2010 Please visit our website:

2 ABOUT THE SCHOOL The National nstitute for Nuclear Science and Technology (NSTN) and the Nuclear Energy Division (DEN) of CEA are continuing their international school in Nuclear Engineering, aiming at promoting knowledge in the field of reactor physics and engineering at a high education level. The fourth session will offer 9 advanced courses in nuclear engineering (one module per week) to be held in Saclay, France, during the period September-December The doctoral-level courses address both PhD students and post-docs in nuclear research. 3 ECTS will be awarded for each successfully completed course. These courses are also well suited for established engineers wishing to further their knowledge or diversify their skills. Lecturers are internationally known experts from leading universities and research institutes in the nuclear field. OUTLNE PROGRAM of COURSES 1 Reactor Multiphysics and Fuel Management (Prof. P. J. Turinsky) Nuclear Fuel Cycle Nuclear Fuel Management Core Characteristics Overview of Computational Methods 2 Materials for Reactor Fuels and Structures (Prof. C. Lemaignan) Mechanisms of irradiation damage (neutrons, photons and electrons) Behavior of materials under irradiation: Steels and Zr alloys ntroduction to Fuel Materials Specific materials or conditions (Gen, fusion)

3 3 Reactor Core Physics: Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods (Profs. Y. Azmy and C. Diop) The Neutron Transport Equation The Neutron Diffusion Equation Solving the Transport Equation Solution Algorithms for Discrete Ordinates Methods V The Monte Carlo Method for Solving the Transport Equation V Monte Carlo Techniques: Fixed Source, Variance Reduction, Criticality, Perturbation calculations, Adjoint V Conclusion 4 Nuclear Measurements Tools and Techniques (P. Schillebeeckx and H. Safa) Radiation Sources Radiation Detectors Experimental Nuclear Physics nstrumentation in Nuclear Environment 5 Reactor Kinetics and Reactor Dynamics (Prof. J. Dorning) Historical Origins of the Equations of Reactor Kinetics The Point Reactor Kinetics Equations The Kinetics of Neutron Pulses Space-Time Reactor Kinetics V Thermal Feedback and Thermal-Hydraulic Feedback V Early Nonlinear Analyses of Nuclear Reactor Dynamics V The Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Analysis of Boiling Water Reactors V The Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability of Future Reactor Systems 6 Fuel Cycle Back-End and Reprocessing (Profs. B. Boullis and C. Hill) V The Front-end Cycle The Spent Nuclear Fuel Uranium and Plutonium Reprocessing: the PUREX Process Reprocessing of Minor Actinides Advanced Fuel Cycles for Sustainable Nuclear Systems

4 The EPR 7 Nuclear Fuels (LWR, SFR, GCR) (Prof. Y. Guérin) Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Fuel Element Thermal Performance and Temperature Effects Nuclear Fuel Behavior under rradiation Main limiting phenomena in the different types of fuel V Fuel Behavior during some off-normal conditions V Modeling of Fuel Behavior V Fuel Challenges for the future V Conclusion 8 Uncertainty Quantification, Experimental Validation and Predictive Simulation (Prof. D. G. Cacuci) V V Measurements Errors and Uncertainties: Basic Concepts Local Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Linear and Nonlinear Systems Global Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis Statistical Methods for Uncertainty Analysis Data Evaluation and Models of Error Covariances Data Adjustment and Assimilation 9 The Scientific Basis of Nuclear Waste Management (Prof. B. Bonin) Generalities on waste Waste conditioning Waste storage and disposal Conclusions

5 NFORMATON VENUE: The courses will be held at the NSTN located in the CEA Saclay Center (20 km southwest of Paris). REGSTRATON DEADLNE: Course 1 to 5: August 20, 2010 Course 6 to 9: September 20, 2010 REGSTRATON FEE: for the first course each additional course. Fee covers lectures, documentation and lunches. Grants are available for students (500 per course). CONTACTS: Scientific contact: Prof. Dan Gabriel Cacuci Phone: dan-gabriel.cacuci@cea.fr Organization contact: Ms Corinne Carreaux Phone: Fax: m3nuclear@cea.fr Course 1 Course 2 Course 3 Course 4 Course 5 Course 6 Course 7 Course 8 Course 9 Reactor Multiphysics and Fuel Management from September 20 to September 24 Materials for Reactor Fuels and Structures from September 27 to October 1 Reactor Core Physics : Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods from October 4 to October 8 Nuclear Measurements Tools and Techniques from October 11 to October 15 Reactor Kinetics and Reactor Dynamics from October 18 to October 22 Fuel Cycle Back-End and Reprocessing from October 25 to October 29 Nuclear Fuels (LWR, SFR, GCR) from November 15 to November 19 Uncertainty Quantification, Experimental Validation and Predictive Simulation from November 22 to November 26 The Scientific Basis of Nuclear Waste Management from November 29 to December 3

6 LECTURERS Yousry Azmy is Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Adjunct Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. His area of expertise is in nuclear computational science with a focus on transport theory. His research covered issues such as the development, implementation, and testing of advanced numerical methods for nuclear applications, numerical error estimation and analysis, iterative acceleration schemes, and parallel solution algorithms. Bernard Bonin has a background in fundamental research in high energy physics and materials physics. Between 1996 and 2000, he was head of a Service of Research and Studies on Nuclear Waste, within CEA s nstitute for Nuclear Protection and Safety. His studies then aimed at obtaining an overall view of the scientific basis for nuclear waste management, with special interest in the migration of radioactive contaminants in the underground environment. n 2000, he was appointed assistant to the Director of R&D in COGEMA, in charge of the organisation of the R&D on the front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, and on future nuclear energy systems. He received the Areva nnovation Award in 2002 for the development of a radon detection system. Since 2003, he is deputy scientific Director in the Nuclear Energy Division of CEA and Professor at NSTN. Bernard Boullis is Program Director of Fuel Cycle Technologies and Waste Management at CEA. He was formerly head of the Radiochemistry and Processes Department, specializing in the back-end of the fuel cycle: spent fuel reprocessing, long-lived radionuclides, partitioning & transmutation and innovative technologies for future nuclear systems. He is Professor at NSTN and at the Montpellier University. Dan Gabriel Cacuci has been the Editor of Nuclear Science and Engineering The Research Journal of the American Nuclear Society. since He served as the Scientific Director of the Nuclear Energy Division of CEA until Prof. Cacuci is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, has won numerous international awards, and has authored 3 books and over 160 peer-reviewed articles on topics in nuclear engineering and atmospheric sciences. Cheikh M Backe Diop is Research Director at CEA and Professor at NSTN working at the Service of Reactor Studies and Applied Mathematics. He was the head of the Laboratory of Shielding Studies and Probability. He is co-author of a book on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Engineering. He teaches the radiation shielding computational methods and the Monte Carlo method for simulating the particle transport in matter. He is the scientific manager of the Master s in Nuclear Engineering (CEA/NSTN - Orsay University). John J. Dorning is the Whitney Stone Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, of Applied Mathematics, and Engineering Physics at the University of Virginia. His research includes bifurcation theory, nonlinear dynamical systems and deterministic chaos in engineering applications, including nuclear reactor, fluid dynamics and two-phase flow. He is a member of the US NAE and has received numerous honors and awards for his research (the US DOE E.O. Lawrence and the ANS Compton, Wigner and Seaborg Awards). Yannick Guérin is Research Director at CEA and Professor at NSTN on nuclear fuels. He has been working for many years in the field of nuclear fuel as Head of Laboratory and Project Coordinator, tackling every domain of this field both in light water reactor and in fast reactor fuels. He has authored more than 50 publications and several chapters of books. Clément Hill is heading the Chemistry Laboratory of Extractant Systems at CEA Marcoule. He is Senior Expert in Separation of Actinides. He was a research fellow at PNC (Power Nuclear Fuel Cycle Company) in Tokai-Mura (Japan). His background includes analytical chemistry. Dr. Hill contributed to the monography on Treatment and Recycling of Used Nuclear Fuel and is teaching at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris. Clément Lemaignan is Research Director at CEA and Professor at NSTN on nuclear metallurgy, physics of fracture and material science. Prof. Lemaignan holds 4 patents, and has authored 3 books, 6 review book chapters, and over 80 peer-reviewed articles. He has been Editor for the Journal of Nuclear Materials for more than 15 years. He has received many distinctions, and is an Officer of the Palmes Académiques. Henri Safa is currently working at the Scientific Direction of the Nuclear Energy Division of CEA, running the internal nuclear training courses and the scientific evaluation. He previously worked in the Nuclear Physics Department on photofission applications. His background includes material science and accelerators. Peter Schillebeeckx is currently in charge of high resolution cross section measurements at the GELNA facility of the EC-JRC-RMM. He is specialized in neutron and gamma-ray detection principles, reaction models, and resonance analysis. He has also been involved in the development of methods for nondestructive assay of nuclear materials and has a background in fission fragment spectroscopy and nuclear structure studies. Paul J. Turinsky is Professor of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University, specializing in computational reactor physics, with a focus on nuclear fuel management optimization, space-time kinetics, sensitivity/uncertainty analysis and adaptive core simulation. He has won numerous awards, including the US DOE E.O. Lawrence Award in Nuclear Energy and the ANS Wigner and Compton Awards. - Crédit Photo : CEA, AREVA & EDF