Education and Training Series #12: Metallic Fuels for Fast Reactors
Part of a webinar series hosted by the GIF Education and Training Working Group since 2016.
Who should attend?
Policymakers, industry professionals, regulators, researchers, students, the general public.
About the "GIF Education and Training" Webinars
These webinars, organised by the GIF Education and Training Working Group are streamed live monthly. The recordings and slide decks are accessible after the webinar on this website. These webinars cover a very broad range of technical and policy related topics. At the end of 2023 they have been viewed by more than 15000 people (approximately half of the views during the live streams and the other half views being of the archives on the public GIF website). In total, the GIF webinars have reached Generation IV enthusiasts, scientists, and engineers in more than 80 countries.
These webinars are organised and hosted by the GIF Education and Training Working Group (ETWG).
About this Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of metallic fuels used in sodium-cooled fast reactors. Topics to be briefly surveyed will include: a history of metallic fuel development and use; benefits of metallic fuel technology for fuel reliability and safety; and current development directions in the areas of actinide transmutation and ultra-high burnup.
Presentation made during the webinar
Meet the presenter
Dr. Steven Hayes is a Fellow of the Nuclear Science & Technology Directorate at Idaho National Laboratory. During his career, he has been engaged in the development, testing and modeling of a variety of nuclear fuels, including metallic, oxide, and nitride fuels for liquid metal reactors and high-density dispersion fuels for research reactors. He led numerous fuels and materials irradiation experiments in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II prior to its shutdown, and today he maintains an active fuel testing program in the Advanced Test Reactor. Dr. Hayes is a national leader in the development and testing of metallic fuels for the US-DOE’s Advanced Fuels Campaign and in the development of multiscale, multiphysics fuel performance codes for the US-DOE’s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation program.