GIF talks with industry series #1 - LFR Developers: newcleo

Date/Hours: 20 June 2024 - 14:30 CEST
Location: Online - Free webcast
Webinars
LFR
Industry
Updated on 02/12/2024

Practical Information about this webinar

This webinar is hosted by the Lead Fast Reactors provisional System Steering Committee. It is the first of a series of webinar aimed at engagement between the GIF community and the nuclear industry involved in the implementation of advanced nuclear reactor systems. 

Who should attend?
Policymakers, industry professionals, regulators, researchers, students, the general public. 

About the "GIF Talks with Industry" Webinars

This webinar is the first of series where GIF will be discussing with representatives of the industry to link national and international R&D programs, industry needs and challenges, and work to identify ways for the GIF community to foster new avenues for fruitful cooperations with the industry.

About this Webinar

Discover the developments in MOX-fueled SMR-LFRs by newcleo. They aim to commission a MOX production plant and a demonstrator in the early 2030s, followed by a 200MWe First-Of-A-Kind and a fleet. newcleo highlights safety, simplicity, compactness, and cost competitiveness in their reactor design. These qualities are attributed to lead properties and innovative solutions, streamlining their design. Their broad R&D program supports an incremental strategy to refine technologies and address gaps. Join us to learn more about newcleo’s R&D focus areas that include structural materials and coatings, primary components integrity and performance, handling systems, ISI&R and integral testing in large-scale facilities. Learn how specific R&D needs are addressed by newcleo through the refurbishment of existing ENEA infrastructure, and several new test facilities (e.g. CAPSULE, CORE, OTHELLO, DCI, MANUT). Challenges and successes in developing and bringing Generation IV reactor technologies to the market will be discussed as well as how organizations such as GIF can support those efforts. A Q&A session will provide you with opportunities to learn more and listen to firsthand insights on what making a Gen IV reactor a reality requires. This webinar is the first of series where GIF will be discussing with representatives of the industry to link national and international R&D programs, industry needs and challenges, and work to identify ways for the GIF community to foster new avenues for fruitful cooperations with the industry. Dr. Mariano Tarantino from ENEA, the co-chair of GIF LFR provisional steering committee, will facilitate this webinar.

Meet the host and speaker(s)

Portrait of Dr Mariano Tarantino

Dr
Mariano TARANTINO

LFR pSSC
GIF LFR pSSC Co-Chair / Head of Energy Nuclear Systems Division of the ENEA Nuclear Department

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. 

Portrait of Dr Fabio Moretti

Dr
Fabio MORETTI

Head of newcleo’s R&D Thermal Hydraulics Unit

Dr Moretti is a Nuclear Engineer with a PhD in Nuclear and Industrial Safety, is the Head of newcleo’s R&D Thermal Hydraulics Unit, which carries out engineering studies relevant to the design and operation of experimental test facilities, as well as in support of design and safety assessment of the LFR. Since 2014 he has been involved (as TH/CFD/FEM analyst, team leader, project manager, etc.) in many projects dealing with nuclear fission reactor safety assessment, nuclear power plant licensing, computer code validation, design and building of test facilities, etc., both in academic R&D frameworks and under industrial contracts, always in internationally oriented environments. He has always been looking forward to a nuclear renaissance, as a breakthrough toward a cleaner and healthier environment and a really sustainable management of the world’s energy resources.

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