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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) SPeaker
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Prof. Narabayashi graduated the master course of Nuclear Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), and entered Toshiba Corporation in 1978. He got a doctor degree in 1991 from Tokyo Tech. He was the Chief Specialist of Reactor Components and Two-Phase Flow in Toshiba Corp.
He moved to the Hokkaido University in 2005. He was given awards from the AESJ in 1988 and 2002, and from the JSME in 2005, 2022 and 2023.
He has been involved in an advisory meeting member of NISA with regard to technical lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP accidents, and also safety counter measure evaluation member of NRA.
He became a director of the AESJ in July 2012. Since 2013, he has served as a member of the Nuclear Education Panel at King Khalifa University in the UAE, and in 2018 was awarded the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award by the Information System for Radiation Exposure (ISOE), which is jointly operated by the IAEA and OECD/NEA.
He became a specially appointed professor at Tokyo Tech in 2018, and also serves as the President of a Tokyo Tech venture, GX Energy ltd, since 2022.
He received the Contribution Award from the JSME in 2023 for leading the implementation of filtered containment venting systems using organic iodine removal filters in Japan.
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