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Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
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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