Education and Training Series #20: PROLIFERATION RESISTANCE AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF GEN IV REACTOR SYSTEMS
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 the activities of the Gen IV Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection Working Group. Topics include a presentation of the methodology developed by the group, an illustration of the methodology to an example nuclear system, and a summary of ongoing interactions between the group and the designers of the six Gen IV nuclear energy systems. Other outreach activities of the group associated with various national and international organizations will be briefly summarized.
Presentation made during the webinar
Meet the presenter
Dr. Robert A. Bari is Senior Scientist Emeritus at Brookhaven National Laboratory and has over 40 years of experience in nuclear energy research. He has performed studies on safety, security and nonproliferation of advanced nuclear concepts. For 15 years Dr. Bari was co-chairman of the working group on proliferation resistance and physical protection of the Generation IV International Forum. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society and as President of the International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. Dr. Bari was awarded the Theo J. “Tommy” Thompson Award in 2003 by the American Nuclear Society. In 2004, he received the Brookhaven National Laboratory Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology. Dr. Bari is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Physical Society. He has participated in risk-based standards development for nuclear technologies for more than two decades. He has been a committee member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of the U.S. Nuclear Plants. Dr. Bari also chaired a workshop of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences on safety and security culture held jointly between the U.S. and Brazil in 2014. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University (1970) and his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University (1965). He was awarded membership in the Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Sigma Pi Sigma honor societies.