Education and Training Series #32: Lead Containing Mainly Isotope Pb-208: New Reflector for Improving Safety of Fast Nuclear 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 considers improvement of fast reactor safety through slowing-down power runaway. The idea is surrounding the core by the neutron reflector made of lead-208, a material of heavy atomic weight and extremely low neutron absorption. The power runaways can be slowed down because of a long way for leakage neutrons to come back from distant layers of neutron reflector to the core. It is demonstrated that mean prompt neutron lifetime can be elongated roughly by three orders of magnitude with appropriate slowing-down the reactor power runaway.
Presentation made during the webinar
Meet the presenter
Dr. Evgeny Kulikov earned his PhD at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Moscow in 2010 and is currently the associate professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics and Engineering. His areas of professional interests include improving fuel burn-up, nuclear fuel cycle, non-proliferation, and fast reactor safety. Currently, his scientific research is supported by the Russian Science Foundation. He lectures on theoretical aspects of nuclear reactors and conducts laboratory works on experimental reactor physics. He is serving on the Gen IV International Forum Education and Training Task Force.