20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)

Neil E. Todreas, Sc.D.

Professor Emeritus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Cambridge, MA

Dr. Neil Todreas is the Korea Electric Power Corp. Professor of Nuclear Engineering (Emeritus) and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served at MIT for 53 years, including an eight-year period from 1981 – 1989 as the Nuclear Engineering Department Head. From 1975 to 2020 he was co-director of the MIT Nuclear Power Reactor Safety summer course which presents current issues of reactor safety significance to an international group of over 30 nuclear engineers each summer in a one -week course .on nuclear reactors Prior to his MIT service he spent 4 years in US Naval Reactors and a subsequent 5 years in the Reactor Development and Technology Division of the US Atomic Energy Commission working on design and operation of advanced nuclear reactors His area of technical expertise is thermal and hydraulic aspects of nuclear reactor engineering and safety analysis. .

He has an extensive record of service for government (Department of Energy – DOE, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission – USNRC, and national laboratories), utility industry review committees, and international scientific review groups. He has served as a member and chair of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operation (INPO). He was the chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) panel on Appendix K (which ushered the best estimate approach with uncertainty into the regulatory practice, instead of the so-called conservative approach used until then). In the early 2000s he served as co-chairman of DOE’s Generation IV technology road map planning committee. His professional service has involved many international assignments, including technical leadership of the panel to assess the safety and restart plan for the Canadian Ontario Hydro Company’s nuclear fleet.

He has written or been co-author of more than 250 publications, a two-volume textbook published in 1990, of which Vol I ,3^rd and Vol II 2^nd ed are widely used internationally for the study of reactor thermal analysis He has also published a reference book on safety features of light water reactors.

He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sc.D., Nuclear Engineering 1966

Cornell University M.S., Mechanical Engineering 1958

Cornell University B.S., Mechanical Engineering 1958

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1993-present Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Emeritus since 2006)

1992-present Chair, Korea Electric Power Corp. Professor of Nuclear Engineering (Emeritus since 2006)

1981-1989 Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

1975-present Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Emeritus since 2006)

1971-1975 Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

1970-1971 Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Visiting Faculty Appointments

January 1992 Professor, University of Hong Kong

May-Sept 1972 Assistant Professor, Technical University of Berlin

US Atomic Energy Commission,

1965-1970 Senior Reactor Engineer, Division of Reactor Development

and Technology, Washington, DC

1958-1962 Reactor Engineer ( Ensign and Lt JG ,USN), Naval Reactors