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Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
On June 14, Rolls-Royce, the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced that they had signed two trilateral memorandums of cooperation to collaborate on “advanced modular reactor (AMR) technology, specifically high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR), and the coated particle fuel these reactors will use.”
Separately, on June 16, Bellevue, Wash.–based TerraPower announced that its Natrium reactor design has been formally submitted for U.K. regulatory review. The company also announced the formation of a new subsidiary, TerraPower UK Ltd.
International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2024 Plenary SPeaker
Senior Expert
Department of Code Development and Validation
FRAMATOME
Patrick Blaise, PhD, Ing., is Senior Expert at FRAMATOME Department of Code Development and Validation, where is working in support of R&D in the frame of advanced calculation schemes and coupling methods in core physics. He was former Research Director at the Scientific Division of Energies at CEA (French Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission) until 2023.
He was former head of the Experimental Programs Laboratory in the Experimental Physics Section from 2012 to 2018, in charge of designing and conducting experimental programs in 3 main ZPRs: EOLE, MINERVE and MASURCA on the CEA Cadarache Research Centre, and technical contact person for several international collaborations in the field of Zero Power Reactor experimental physics.
Engineer from Brussels Industrial High School (1991), Master in Nuclear Engineering from Louvain Polytechnic School (1992) and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Marseille University (1996), he has about 30 years of experience in the field of experimental programs in critical facilities.
His major fields of research and expertise are experimental reactor physics and associated instrumentation, as well as nuclear data and code V&V.
He is supervisor of several PhD students and co-authored more than 180 papers in peer-review journals and conferences.
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