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The mission of the Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences (DES) Division is to promote the development and use of those skills and technologies associated with the use of nuclear energy and the optimal management and stewardship of the environment, sustainable development, decommissioning, remediation, reutilization, and long-term surveillance and maintenance of nuclear-related installations, and sites. The target audience for this effort is the membership of the Division, the Society, and the public at large.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2024 Plenary SPeaker
Senior Expert
Department of Code Development and Validation
FRAMATOME
Patrick Blaise, PhD, Ing., is Senior Expert at FRAMATOME Department of Code Development and Validation, where is working in support of R&D in the frame of advanced calculation schemes and coupling methods in core physics. He was former Research Director at the Scientific Division of Energies at CEA (French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission) until 2023.
He was former head of the Experimental Programs Laboratory in the Experimental Physics Section from 2012 to 2018, in charge of designing and conducting experimental programs in 3 main ZPRs: EOLE, MINERVE and MASURCA on the CEA Cadarache Research Centre, and technical contact person for several international collaborations in the field of Zero Power Reactor experimental physics.
Engineer from Brussels Industrial High School (1991), Master in Nuclear Engineering from Louvain Polytechnic School (1992) and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Marseille University (1996), he has about 30 years of experience in the field of experimental programs in critical facilities.
His major fields of research and expertise are experimental reactor physics and associated instrumentation, as well as nuclear data and code V&V.
He is supervisor of several PhD students and co-authored more than 180 papers in peer-review journals and conferences.
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