Nuclear Fission Technology

The research activity on fission nuclear systems is mainly focused on the analysis of innovative reactors, with a specific focus on Gen-IV designs.

The interest has been focused in the past 15-20 years on the development of methods and models for the neutronic analysis of such systems, leading to various key publications in the field of reactory physics and transport theory. 

In the last years, a more comprehensive research effort has been launched for the development of tools for the multiphysics analysis of fast reactors, as well as the application of risk analysis methods to innovative reactor designs, such as the molten salt reactors.

Topics

• Molten Salt Reactors
  
• Accelerator-driven systems
  
• Multiphysics of advanced reactors
  
• Models and methods for neutron kinetics
  
• Deterministic neutron transport methods
  
• Monte Carlo applications