Nuclear Design conferences

In this course, each chapter is followed by a group project. With some technical help and communication advice from the teacher, each group has to understand (fully or half of) a scientific article (from a journal or a conference) dealing with some design studies or issues of an existing or paper nuclear reactor.

Since articles which complete each other are chosen, all different aspects about this (often innovative) nuclear reactor type are thus finally studied by the entire class and a consistent "student conference" can be given on the subject at the end by all groups, as an evaluation.

Please find below the previous conferences:

Nuclear Design 2013 (Space Nuclear Reactors for stationary needs on the Moon)

Nuclear Design 2014 (Full design study of a small long-life HTR)

Nuclear Design 2015 (Physics Experiments and Lifetime Performance of the Light Water Breeder Reactor)

Nuclear Design 2016 (Simulation Studies of Small Modular Reactors for both uranium and thorium fuel cycles)

Nuclear Design 2017 (Neutronic and Thermal-Hydraulic Analyses of Hydride-Fueled PWR Cores)

Nuclear Design 2018 (Autonomous Reactivity Control for Fast Reactor Safety)

Nuclear Design 2019 (Study of D2O/H2O-cooled thorium-fueled PWR-like SMR cores)

Nuclear Design 2020 (KRUSTY and JANUS : small reactors for space electric propulsion)

Nuclear Design 2021 (Small High Temperature Reactor made in the UK)

Nuclear Design 2022 (Design and Safety Analysis of a Boron-Free Small Modular Reactor core)

Nuclear Design 2023 (Molten-salt coolant Advanced High Temperature Reactor)