Events

The Conference will cover the recent developments and advances in:

• Impact of Modelling in Nuclear Engineering and Science;
• Innovation and Adoption of AI in Modelling, Design and Operation of Nuclear Facilities;
• Multi-physics, Multi-scale Modelling;
• Uncertainty Quantification, Data Assimilation and Digital Twin Production;
• Modelling Codes and Methods in Reactor Safety Performance and Accident Conditions;
• Regulation;
• Integrated Energy Systems;
• Decommissioning, Chemical, Storage, Waste and Fuel Cycle Facilities;
• Use in Space Exploration, Medical Applications and Imaging;
• Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Fuel Performance, Neutronics, Criticality and Shielding;
• Optimisation for Design Process and Management;
• Experimental Techniques and Data in Supporting Modelling Activities, Verification and Validation.

Dr David Luxat: Sandia National Laboratories

Keynote Title: Application of Artificial Intelligence Methods – The Next Era of Nuclear Safety Technology 

Dr David L. Luxat leads the Nuclear Energy Safety Technologies department at Sandia National Laboratories, which is a national and international leader in the development of nuclear safety modelling and simulation methods. As part of the department’s effort, he leads the development of the MELCOR computer code. Dr. Luxat is leading a range of initiatives to enable accelerated innovation and modernization in advanced nuclear energy technologies through novel methods and capabilities for assessing their realistic levels of safety. These efforts are supporting key initiatives of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Prior to joining Sandia in 2019, Dr. Luxat led a broad range of initiatives for the United States nuclear industry after Fukushima that enhanced the safety and preserved the economic operation of nuclear power plants in the United States. As an element of these initiatives, Dr. Luxat led industry efforts to forensically evaluate the March 2011 accidents at Fukushima Daiichi, which proved central to developing new safety insights and an understanding of the damage at the reactors critical to future remediation plans.

Michele Devita, Office for Nuclear Regulation  

Keynote Title: A regulator perspective on opportunities and challenges offered by use of artificial intelligence in the nuclear industry

Michele Devita (BSc, MSc, CEng, CSci FIMMM) is a Nuclear Safety Inspector specialising in Fuel and Core Analysis at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and holds a BSc in Energy Engineering and an MSc in Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan. Michele has over 15 years of experience in the nuclear energy and oil & gas industries, and prior to joining ONR in 2017, he worked for seven years on the UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor project with Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy and Horizon Nuclear Power. At ONR, Michele has worked across multiple divisions, including Operating and New Reactors, and served as the Fuel and Core Inspector for Hinkley Point C for three years. He is currently leading the GE-Hitachi BWRX-300 Fuel and Core design assessment, and has previously supported ONR's early engagement with other Advanced Nuclear Technologies vendors, contributed to international initiatives with the IAEA on innovative reactor systems and is currently working with ONR’s Innovation team, led by Dr. Paolo Picca.

Professor Catrin Davies, Imperial College London   

Keynote title: Multidisciplinary modelling for through-life integrity of nuclear components

Catrin Mair Davies is a Professor in Structural Integrity within the Mechanics of Materials Division at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. She was awarded an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (2010-2015) in partnership with EDF Energy and E.ON. She leads the High Temperature Centre at Imperial and in total has over 90 publications relating to experimental testing and finite element modelling of creep deformation, damage, creep crack initiation and growth, low-cycle fatigue, weld simulations, prediction and measurement of residual stresses and failure analyses. Her research has been incorporated into industrial codes and testing standards. She takes a leading role in the development of design criteria for nuclear applications; fission and fusion.

Professor Andreas Kyprianou, University of Warwick

Keynote Title: Bring back the mathematician?

Andreas Kyprianou is a mathematician specialising in stochastic modelling and has held academic positions at the LSE, the University of Edinburgh, Utrecht University, Heriot-Watt University, the University of Bath and currently the University of Warwick where he is director of the Centre for Applications of Mathematical and Computer Sciences. Additionally, he has spent time as a visiting professor at ETH Zürich, Université Libre de Bruxelles and CIMAT, Mexico. He has been interested in the mathematics of radiation transport for the last 10 years and is currently holder of a £7.3M EPSRC programme grant “Mathematical Theory of Radiation Transport”. 

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• Chair: Prof Ali Tehrani FNucI, Office for Nuclear Regulation
• Prof Christopher Pain, Imperial College London
• Prof Paul Smith, Amentum UK 
• Dr Andrew Buchan, Queen Mary University of London
• Prof Panagiota Angeli, University College London
• Dr Amir Nourian, University of Salford
• Dr Tatiana Ivanova - Head of Division of Nuclear Science, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
• Dr Mark Bankhead, National Nuclear Laboratory
• Dr John Jones, Fairlie Associates