9/28/2009 Colloquium - Hiroshi Sekimoto
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Hiroshi SekimotoTokyo Institute of Technology |
Event Info
Title: Requirements for future nuclear reactors and CANDLE reactor
Date: Sept 28, 2009
Location: 3105 Etcheverry Hall
Time: 4-5pm
Abstract
Presentation includes
1. COE-INES and CRINES activities,
2. Five requirements for nuclear energy systems,
3. Concepts of CANDLE reactors,
4. Characteristics of several CANDLE designs,
5. Start-up of CANDLE burn-up,
6. The five requirements and CANDLE reactors.
Speaker Biography
Hiroshi Sekimoto is a professor in the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and also Director of Center for Research into Innovative Nuclear Energy System. BS, 1968, and MS, 1970, Kyoto University, Japan; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1974. His current interests include conceptual design study of innovative reactors, and recently he is working mostly on CANDLE reactors.
