Lead Fast Reactors GIF provisional System Steering Committee

Mariano Tarantino graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2004. Ph.D. in Nuclear and Industrial Safety in 2008. Since 2008 he has been an ENEA researcher in the field of liquid metal technologies for nuclear applications, mainly related to Generation IV - LFR. From 2010 to 2018 Scientific Advisor of the Program Agreement between ENEA and the Ministry of Economic Development, where he coordinated all research and development activities on fourth generation nuclear fission systems refrigerated with liquid lead. Currently he is the head of Energy Nuclear Systems Division of the ENEA Nuclear Department, member of the Executive Board of FALCON Consortium devoted to ALFRED DEMO LFR construction, and member of the newcleo R&D steering committee, aiming at supporting the development of LFR-AS-30 and LFR-AS-200. With a background in thermos-fluid dynamics, expert in nuclear technology and lead cooled fast reactors, with an experimental vocation, he coordinates various projects at a national and international level. Among those international efforts Dr Tarantino is the Co-Chair of the Generation IV International Forum provisional Lead Fast Reactors System Steering Committee. 

Andrei Moiseev was elected Chair of the LFR pSSC in 2021, succeeding Alessandro Alemberti in this role. He joined the GIF LFR pSSC in 2014, and from this moment he is an active participant in the GIF LFR activities, together with other LFR pSSC members have made significant contributions to various areas of GIF LFR development. At different stages, the fulfillment of the GIF target requirements for the LFR systems was confirmed, and also demonstrated high prospects of LFRs for the future nuclear energy. 
Starting from 2011 Andrei Moiseev is scientific supervisor of the BREST-OD-300 project. The BREST-OD-300 innovative GIF LFR reference system is developed as a pilot demonstration prototype for base-type commercial reactor facilities of the future nuclear power industry with the closed nuclear fuel cycle (NFC). The BREST-OD-300 reactor is being created as one of the most important components of the Pilot Demonstration Energy Complex operating in closed NFC, together with collocated modules for fuel fabrication, refabrication and reprocessing of spent fuel. Andrei Moiseev successfully provides physical justification for the BREST project. With his active participation, scientific research is being conducted related to the operation of the BREST-OD-300 reactor and it’s equilibrium core under closed NFC conditions, transmutation of minor actinides, safety analysis, development and validation of computational codes and methodological base.

Kazuya Ohgama joined the GIF Technical Secretariat in 2023. He serves as the Technical Secretary for SFR Steering Committee, SFR Project Management Boards on Component Design and Balance-of-plant, System Integration and Assessment, Safety and Operation, and Advanced Fuel, and LFR Provisional Steering Committee. As of October 2024 he serves as the acting TS for the Senior Industry Advisory Panel (SIAP).
After obtaining his Ph.D in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he entered Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), where he worked as Principal Research Engineer in charge of evaluation of core physics tests conducted in the prototype fast reactor Monju and a U.S.-Japan bilateral cooperation for metal fuel SFR core neutronics design and benchmark study.