Purpose

Introduce novice audience to nuclear reactor core physics, reactor safety, and nuclear stewardship

Program

Download the event program

Duration

Two days

Coordinator

Professor Saeid Nahavandi, Chief of Defence Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology

Opening

Vice Admiral, Royal Australian Navy (Retired), Michael Noonan AO RAN – former Chief of the Royal Australian Navy

Speakers

  • Professor Farzad Rahnema, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Professor Glenn Sjoden, University of Utah, USA
  • Professor Paul Norman, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Associate Professor Jeremy Brown, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • Mrs. Tegan Bull, Senior Manager, Radiological & Nuclear Security Science, ANSTO, Australia
  • Mr. Dale Heinken (Retired Commanding Officer of the USS Boxer (LHD 4), AVT Australia
  • Ryan Hemsley​​​​, Principal Advisor Nuclear‑Powered Submarines, ARPANSA, Australia
     

Day one

  • Nuclear power: from the fundamentals to the complexity
  • Nuclear reactor design basics
  • Energy from nuclear fission
  • Nuclear reactions and radiations
  • Nuclear mindset
     

Day two

  • Neutron transport behavior
  • Advanced reactors: SMRs and microreactor
  • Nuclear stewardship

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