High Energy Physics Seminar

Friday 1 Apr 2022, 10:15 → 11:45 Europe/Warsaw

Room: B2.38 (Wydział Fizyki UW)

Aleksander Żarnecki (University of Warsaw (PL)), Jan Królikowski (IFD UW), Katarzyna Grzelak (IFD UW)

10:15 → 11:45 Development of nuclear reactors - 4th generation reactors, SMRs and others. Nuclear options for the Polish energy transformation

Abstract:

Almost 21 years have passed since Gen IV - Generation IV International Forum (GIF) has been
founded in 2001 as a co-operative international endeavour which was set up to carry out the
research and development needed to establish the feasibility and performance capabilities of the
next, advanced generation of nuclear energy systems.
The program, organizational structure and main achievements and weaknesses of GIF will be
presented in the first part of the seminar. Then other modern reactor types not officially belonging
to the Gen IV will be presented and briefly assessed. The focus of the presentation will then shift to
the description and assessment of the high temperature gas cooled reactor – HTGR/HTR and its
nuclear fuel - TRISO.
The various options for solving the problem of USED rather than SPENT nuclear fuel will be briefly
described and assessed, including ADS technology, i.e. accelerator-driven subcritical systems.
Finally, possible options for nuclear energy for heat and electricity generation in the Polish energy
system transformation program will be presented. Is there any BEST OPTION?
A Q & A session will follow the seminar.

Serdecznie zapraszamy

dr hab. Katarzyna Grzelak
prof. dr hab. Jan Królikowski
prof. dr hab. Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

Speaker: Prof. Wacław Gudowski (UZ3, NCBJ)

GenIV-SMR-seminar-W.Gudowski_UW-April2022-final.pdf