Fall 2025 Colloquium

Piyush Sabharwall Monday, October 6 3105 Etcheverry Hall Abstract: The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) is investing in advanced nuclear technologies to ensure a clean and sustainable energy future. This seminar will highlight key experimental test beds being designed and operated to support verification and validation for these reactor concepts, as well…

  Abstract: Nano Nuclear Energy, Inc. is a fast-growing nuclear reactor technology company, primarily focused on the development of the Kronos MMR energy system. This seminar will introduce Nano’s vision and approach to the design of Kronos, exploring its key features and capabilities. As a micro-modular reactor, leveraging high-temperature gas reactor technology, Kronos can achieve…

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…

  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: 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…