João M L Moreira

Areas of interest

Nuclear engineering (micro reactors, decommissioning of nuclear power plants, reactor physics, thermal hydraulics and radioactive waste)
Licensing of nuclear power plants and other facilities (nuclear and environmental)
Sustainability of energy sources; environmental impacts
Energy planning

1) Alerta nuclear preocupa autoridades - Guerra entre Rússia e Ucrânia. Entrevista à rede Record em 01/03/2022.

2) Usina atacada: Especialista alerta para riscos. Guerra entre Rússia e Ucrânia. Entrevista à rede Record em 03/03/2022

Livro - Programa de Pós-graduação em Energia (2021)

Lançamento do livro Questões sobre Energia no V Simpósio do Curso de Pós-graduação em Energia da UFABC, 30/11/2017.

Lançamento do livro Estudos da Geração de Metano em uma Célula de Aterro Sanitário na Livraria Martins Fontes. Giovano Candiani e João Moreira (2015).

LABGENE - Laboratório de Gereção Núcleo-elétrica em Aramar. Foto site CTMSP.

Grupo Técnico no. 9 do Comitê de Desenvolvimento do Programa Nuclear Brasileiro - Visita ao CTMSP/CINA em 14/08/2019. Presença da UFABC (Profs. Harki Tanaka, Pedro Rossi e João Moreira). Foto do GT-9.

Usina nuclear de Angra 2 - energia limpa e firme para garantir segurança de fornecimento de energia elétrica.

Grupo Técnico no. 9 do CDPNB - Visita em 14/08/2019 ao sítio onde será construído o Reator Multipropósito Brasileiro (RMB) para produção de rádiofármacos e pesquisas nucleares e de materiais. Empreendimento da Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (CNEN) em Iperó, SP. Presença da UFABC (Profs. Harki Tanaka, Pedro Rossi e João Moreira). Foto do GT-9.

Education

Prof. João Moreira graduated in Physics at the Universidade de Brasília, (1977), obtained the Specialist degree in nuclear energy at the Instituto Militar de Engenharia, IME, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (1979), Master and PhD degrees in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (1982 and 1984, respectively).

Experience

(2020 - ) Professor at the Gradutate Program in Energy of the Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Currently his areas of interest are nuclear engineering, energy planning, and use of methane from landfills for energy generation.

(2006 - 2019) Full Professor in energy at the Universidade Federal do ABC. He was vice-director of the Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences (2007-2008), Coordinator of the graduate program of energy (2007-2010), and member of the Conselho Universitário (ConsUni) (2015-2016).

(1990 - 2006) Senior researcher at the Navy's Technological Center in São Paulo (CTMSP). He worked in the project of the land prototype of a nuclear submarine. He was responsible for the experimental program of the reactor core design performing several experiments in the zero-power reactor IPEN/MB-01. He was head of the nuclear reactor physics division (1991-2002) and manager of the fuel element project (2002-2006).

(1984 - 1989) Researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN). Developed measurement methods for startup tests of nuclear reactors: reactivity meter, control rod worth, temperature coefficients of temperature, power density distribution and beta effective through noise analysis.

(1981 - 1982) Invited researcher in the Institut fuer Reaktorentwicklung at the Kernforschungsanlage Juelich, Germany. He worked in the problem of spatial effects on rod worth measurements.

Prof. João Moreira acted as a specialist at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and at the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC), and was director of the Associação Brasileira de Energia Nuclear (ABEN). Currently he is ad hoc consultant to CNPq, Fapesp, and Capes, and reviewer for several journals.

Voluntary work

He is a voluntary of the ONG Casa da Amizade which provides better basic conditions for families in the Grotão de Paraisópolis community through social and educational activities.