Nuclear Futures Institute Lecturer series - Lecture 1
- Origin of uranium - from the cosmic and geophysical roots via mine and enrichment to the nuclear power plants.
- Nuclear waste - generation and disposal - open and close fuel cycles.
The Nuclear Future Institute is proud to host Prof. Horst-Michael Prasser at Bangor University. Professor Prasser has been full professor of Nuclear Energy Systems at ETH Zurich from April 2006 to January 2021. From 2007 to 2017, he was also head of the Laboratory for Thermal-Hydraulics at the Paul Scherrer Institute. From 2008 to 2011, he was elected as a member of the supervisory body of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI Council).
Professor Prasser was born in Görlitz, Germany in 1955. He studied at the Moscow Energy Institute from 1974 to 1980 and received his doctorate in 1984 from the Zittau University of Applied Sciences on the topic of flow studies in nuclear reactors. In early 1987, he started working for the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf near Dresden. During the German reunification phase, he also served as a personal advisor to the scientific director during the founding of the Rossendorf Research Centre. From 1994, there Prof. Prasser headed the Accident Analysis and Experimental Thermal Fluid Dynamics departments at the Institute for Safety Research. From earlier work at the Rossendorf Research Centre (today Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) came results related to boron mixing in pressurized water reactors which made direct contributions to reactor safety. This was in addition to development of high-resolution measurement techniques used for liquid-gas flows, including wire mesh sensors and time-resolved gamma and X-ray tomography.
Professor Presser is a world leading expert on nuclear energy, thermal and fluid dynamics. In this lecturer series, Prof. Prasser will cover topics ranging from the origin of uranium to recent advances in two-phase flow measurements techniques. You are welcome to join us on those days. On the 28th and 30th the lectures will take place in the main lecture theatre, and the lecture on the 29th will be held at M-Sparc NFI office.
Lecture 1 (28th of September 12:00-13:00, Dean Street, CSEE, Main Lecture Theatre):
- Origin of uranium - from the cosmic and geophysical roots via mine and enrichment to the nuclear power plants.
- Nuclear waste - generation and disposal - open and close fuel cycles.
Lecture 2 (30th of September 12:00-13:00, Dean Street, CSEE, Main Lecture Theatre):
- Nuclear reactor safety - main principles and technical implementations.
- Technology of nuclear reactors.
Lecture 3 (29th of September 10:00-11:00, M-SParc NFI office):
- Advanced two-phase flow instrumentation