Dr. Alberto Talamo, Research Scientist, Argonne National Lab, will give a talk entitled "Physics of Subcritical Systems"

December 06, 2024

@ 10:10 am, 6-051 VTRC, Arlington; 440 Goodwin, Blacksburg.
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Abstract
The physics of subcritical system substantially differs from the one of critical systems. This seminar wants to expose the main concepts relevant to reactor physics using multiple definitions, often not written in textbooks, in order to allow students to better grasp the neutronics of subcritical systems. A special emphasis has been placed on the effective multiplication factor, the prompt neutron decay constant and generation time, and the source multiplication factor. The seminar also includes examples of subcritical system driven by spontaneous fission, D-D, D-T, electron, and proton external neutron sources.

Bio
Dr. Talamo is a recognized expert in nuclear engineering from Argonne National Laboratory. He obtained his M.Sc. from Politecnico di Torino in 1997 and his doctoral degree from the Royal Institute of Technology KTH in 2006. His research has been focused on analytical methods, simulations, and experiments. He has been extensively used both deterministic and Monte Carlo reactor reactor physics codes as well as computational fluid-dynamics and structural mechanics software. As sole author, Dr. Talamo developed the QUADRISO fuel concept and the Dancoff factor for high temperature reactors, as well as numerical algorithms for solving the neutron transport equation by the methods of characteristics. The analyzed reactors include: Pebble Bed and Prismatic High Temperature Reactors (USA), Transformational Challenge Reactor (USA), Foehn (France), Yalina Booster (Belarus), Yalina Thermal (Belarus), Giacint (Belarus), KIPT (Ukraine), KUCA (Japan), TEF-P (Japan), Tapiro (Italy), MITR (USA), and IBR-2M (Russia). A. Talamo authored more than 150 peer reviewed scientific publications and reviewed over 300 journal articles and conference proceedings.