Title:

Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Requirements-Driven Approach to Nuclear Waste Management

Speaker:

Dr. Bojan Petrovic

Affiliation:

Georgia Tech-NRE/MP Programs

When:

Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

Boggs Building, Room 3-47, 3rd FL

Host:

Lei Zhu
lei.zhu@me.gatech.edu
404.385.3882

Abstract

The first part of this presentation will provide an overview of the nuclear fuel cycle with emphasis on the fuel cycle back-end, i.e., used nuclear fuel (UNF). Technical and policy issues related to resource utilization and long-term UNF management will be discussed. The second part of the presentation will introduce the recently devised comprehensive, requirements-driven approach to nuclear fuel cycle back-end optimization. This technology-neutral approach is based on optimally (re)designing the fuel cycle in a manner that satisfies the engineering as well as policy requirements, and thus may serve as a framework to long-term UNF management solution.

Biography

Dr. Bojan Petrovic is a professor in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a Fellow Scientist in Westinghouse Science and Technology with primary responsibility as the Deputy Director of the IRIS reactor development project. His expertise and current research interests include reactor physics, advanced reactors design, nuclear fuel cycle and waste management, modeling and simulations of nuclear systems, and industrial and medical applications of nuclear technology.