Education and Training Series #35: Czech Experimental Program on MSR Technology Development
Part of a webinar series hosted by the GIF Education and Training Working Group since 2016.
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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.
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About this Webinar
The webinar will give an overview of the existing experimental development of Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technology in the Czech Republic. A technology of nuclear reactor systems with liquid molten salt fuel has been investigated in the Czech Republic since 1999. After 2005, the studies cover also thorium – uranium fuel cycle technology, material research and development of selected components of the MSR technology. Today a new, four-year (2017 – 2020) project of MSR technology development is the key component of the Czech MSR R&D program on fluoride salt-cooled nuclear reactor systems. The project is a follow-up and broadening of existing Czech activities in MSR. The aim of the project is to contribute to the development of MSR and FHR reactor technology in the area of reactor physics, nuclear – chemical engineering and material research. The project is solved by a consortium of Czech research institutions and industrial companies leaded by the Research Centre Řež.
Presentation made during the webinar
Meet the presenter
Dr. Jan Uhlíř works for the Research Centre Řež, Czech Republic as a Senior Researcher of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Program. Prior to that, he worked for more than 30 years for the ÚJV Řež - Nuclear Research Institute, which is the mother company of the Research Centre Řež. From 1990 to 2012 his positions were Head of Fluorine Chemistry Department and Deputy Director of Fuel Cycle Division. His long-term expertise is mainly in the development of Fluoride volatility reprocessing method and other fluoride pyrochemical partitioning technologies, recently of those devoted to MSR fuel cycle. Jan Uhlíř has been a leader of several national projects devoted to the nuclear fuel cycle, pyrochemistry and molten salt technology granted mainly by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. He was also responsible for the chemical part of the national project SPHINX devoted to the experimental development of MSR technology. He participated in several European projects devoted mainly to pyrochemical partitioning and MSR technology. Dr. Uhlíř is a representative of the Czech Republic in the Working Party on Scientific Issues of the Fuel Cycle of the OECD-Nuclear Energy Agency, a member of the MSR Provisional System Steering Committee of the Gen IV International Forum as a representative of EURATOM and a member of the High Scientific Council of the European Nuclear Society. He earned his M.S. in Chemical Engineering and PhD. in Nuclear Fuel Technology from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague.