Abstract: This talk will give an overview of a few different projects at UW-Madison on advanced fission and fusion reactor technology development at UW-Madison. Firstly, an irregular design of PWR assembly is introduced, which allows the number of pins to be increased while maintaining backward compatibility, hence facilitating core uprates. Secondly, a molten chloride salt-fueled…

  Career Conversations will be held from 4:00-5:00 PM in 3107 Etcheverry Hall   Abstract: In this talk, I will give an overview of Oklo’s approach and technologies related to sodium fast reactors and discuss my background. Then, I will discuss thermal-hydraulics in more detail, ranging between subchannel, systems, and source term analyses. I will…

Abstract: Our ability to build and use more powerful lasers, whether high-repetition-rate petawatt systems for particle accelerators, exawatt-class lasers capable of probing Schwinger-limit fields, or megajoule inertial-fusion drivers with target-facing final optics, is fundamentally limited by the damage thresholds of the dielectric coatings, glass, and metal that make up modern optics. Here, we will discuss…