Upcoming Events & Activities

Rethinking nuclear energy solutions for the African continent

Ericmoore Jossou

MIT

In this talk, I will discuss the concept of accident-tolerant nuclear fuel design for the safe operation of reactors while pointing out the need for Africa to invest in basic research toward value addition to critical materials used for nuclear reactor design and construction. I will share ongoing work on designing corrosion-resistant and radiation-tolerant coatings using materials indigenous to Africa.

2:00pm  |  NW17-218 Hybrid  |  Add to CalendarApple CalendarGoogleOutlookYahoo

PSFC Seminars

PSFC Seminar: D-T fuel cycles: Achieving tritium self-sufficiency in fusion power plants

Samuele Meschini

MIT PSFC

In this seminar, I will give an overview of fuel cycle design and present a dynamic, system-level model of D-T fuel cycles to assess tritium self-sufficiency for selected designs. We will also investigate the impact of material damage and tritium trapping on TBRr  and inventories, which has never been addressed in the literature at a system-level scale. Lastly, several tritium management strategies and the development of critical technologies will be presented as key paths to achieve tritium self-sufficiency in FPPs.

2:00pm  |  NW17-218 Hybrid  |  Add to CalendarApple CalendarGoogleOutlookYahoo

PSFC Seminars

Investigations of Solar Activities of Various Scales in Both Theory and Observation

Jun Lin

Yunnan Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

In this talk, I shall introduce recent works of the Group of Solar Activities and CME Theory at the Yunnan Astronomical Observatories in Kunming, Yunnan, China.  These works include studies in both theories and observations of various solar activities and the related topics over a large range of scales.

12:00pm  |  NW17-218 Hybrid  |  Add to CalendarApple CalendarGoogleOutlookYahoo