GIF talks with industry series #5 - The nitride fuel R&D program of Blykalla
About this webinar
Join us for a GIF hosted webinar to learn about the latest advancements in uranium nitride fuel for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Lead-cooled Fast Reactors (LFRs) by Blykalla.
Blykalla is focusing its efforts on designing, licensing and building its first nuclear reactor, SEALER-One on a site in Sweden. This reactor, with an intended 70MWth of power, will utilize uranium nitride fuel with 9.9% enriched uranium. It will produce high quality heat for biomass pyrolysis as well as for production of hydrogen in high temperature electrolyzers.
This webinar will give you the opportunity to gain insights into Blykalla’s R&D and methods for qualifying uranium nitride fuel fabrication as well as the challenges and successes in developing and bringing Generation IV reactor technologies to market and how organizations like GIF can support these efforts.
A Q&A session will provide the room to build upon the initial presentation to further understand how Blykalla is working to bring a Gen IV reactor to reality.
This webinar is the fifth of a series where GIF engages with industry representatives to bridge national and international R&D programs, industry needs and challenges. It is also aimed at and exploring new avenues for fruitful cooperation within the GIF community.
Dr. Mariano Tarantino from ENEA, the Euratom representative at GIF LFR provisional steering committee, will facilitate this webinar.
About the GIF Talks with Industry webinars
This webinar is the fourth of a series where GIF engages with industry representatives to bridge national and international R&D programs, industry needs and challenges. It is also aimed at and exploring new avenues for fruitful cooperation within the GIF community. This webinar is hosted by the Lead Fast Reactors provisional System Steering Committee.
Who should attend?
Policymakers, industry professionals, regulators, researchers, students, the general public.
MEET THE HOST AND SPEAKER(S)
Pr
Janne WALLENIUS
Is a professor of Reactor Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, as well as cofounder and CTO of Blykalla. His competence areas include lead-cooled reactor design and safety analysis, as well as advanced nuclear fuel development. He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and an h-index of 27. He has written text-books on transmutation of nuclear waste and Fast neutron Generation-IV reactors. In 2013 he co-founded Blykalla in order to commercialize the outcome of his research. In 2022 he was selected for the KTH Innovation Award, for his creativity, grit and courage in making innovations for a better society.
Dr
Mariano TARANTINO
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 Euratom representative at the Generation IV International Forum provisional Lead Fast Reactors System Steering Committee.
Recording of the webinar
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