Abstract: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign formed a partnership with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation to deploy an advanced research reactor on campus, based on a microreactor design that improves upon well-established high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) technology. Unlike traditional research reactors, our focus at UIUC is not on a laboratory tool to study radiation interactions with matter, or even on the production of radioisotopes. Instead, we will build a research, education, and training facility intended to help advanced reactor technology become a widely deployable, marketable, economic, safe, and reliable option for a clean energy future. If successful, the USNC-designed Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) would operate on UIUC’s campus with the capability to advance critical and enabling technologies required for advanced reactors to realize their full potential, while educating and training the workforce as a key step toward delivering on the technology’s promise.
Biography: Dr. Tomasz Kozlowski is a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University in 2005, where he worked on spatial homogenization methods for transport calculation, multi-physics RELAP5/PARCS and TRACE/PARCS coupling and PARCS code development. Later, he worked at the Division of Nuclear Power Safety at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, where he taught numerical methods and conducts researcher on BWR stability, BWR safety analysis and multi-physics coupling methods for deterministic safety analysis. At University of Illinois, he worked on BWR spent fuel criticality safety, BWR instability, high-order numerical methods for two-phase flow, uncertainty quantification of system codes (RELAP5, TRACE), multi-physics uncertainty and multi-physics coupling (OECD/NEA MPCMIV, CASL VERA-CS), PWR and MSR load-follow analysis, computational statistics, Bayesian inverse.
This webinar is a certified green event by the University of Illinois' Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment.
