The SESAME project presented many outcomes during the important NUclear REactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH) in Portland. More than 10 scientific papers of SESAME work were presented. On top of that, two keynote lectures of prominent SESAME colleagues were provided. And finally, 2 SESAME papers were selected by the Honors and Awards Committee to receive one of the 8 best paper awards prior to the conference banquet. We congratulate Julio Pacio, Markus Daubner, Thomas Wetzel, HeleenRead More →

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The Final International Workshop of the SESAME project (2015 – 2019) took place in Petten (Netherlands) from 19-21 March 2019. The aim of this event was to disseminate the main achievements of the project among the international nuclear community and to foster the exchange of the newest scientific and technical results between researchers and experts. In total, 62 technical papers were presented along with 8 keynote lectures from international experts, mostly not directly involved in theRead More →

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The NUGENIA Forum 2019 will be held from 13 to 15 March 2019 at La Cité Universitaire in Paris, France. The theme of this year Forum is “Innovation for a safe, efficient and low-carbon nuclear energy production”. It will be devoted to the discussion on the technical and scientific milestones to be tackled to ensure competitive, efficient and safe production of low CO2 electricity from GEN II, GEN III and SMR water-cooled nuclear power plants.  Technological innovation is fundamental to maintain a highRead More →

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PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG PROFESSIONAL: JURE ODER Could you briefly describe your role and responsibilities in the SESAME project? I am a PhD student at JSI, which is a partner in the SESAME project. The main involvement of my team is in the Work Package 1, which is about Fluctuations and Vibrations. It is our responsibility to provide reference data about thermal fluctuations in a flow of sodium in a heated backward facing step geometry (TaskRead More →

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During the ANS Winter Meeting in Orlando (Florida) embedded Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH) topical meeting, two out of three keynote lectures were provided by SESAME experts. The opening keynote was provided by Katrien van Tichelen on ‘Advanced Liquid-Metal Thermal Hydraulics Research for MYRRHA’. This keynote was very well received and obviously discussed amongst many other topics also topics covered by SESAME. Katrien received her certificate of appreciation from Dr. Sama Bilbao y Leon currentlyRead More →

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The 7th of May, at the University of Pisa, the candidate Morena Angelucci defended her doctoral thesis titled “Coupling between System and CFD codes for the analysis of thermal-hydraulic phenomena relevant for LMFR”. Her research activity concerned the development and the use of multi-scale approach, i.e. coupled calculation between a system thermal-hydraulic code (RELAP5/Mod3.3) and a CFD code (ANSYS Fluent) to perform thermal-hydraulic analysis of heavy metal-cooled systems. The research included also an experimental activityRead More →

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The SESAME progress meeting in Brasimone hosted a unique event. The first ever heavy (liquid) metal concert in the containment of a liquid metal cooled reactor. SESAME scientist Diego Angeli from Modena is also guitarist in the Italian melodic and aggressive heavy metal band Blue Hour Ghosts. And as they said themselves: ‘Have you ever heard guitars play in a Nuclear Reactor Containment Building? Well, we did!’. It was a unique and very special concertRead More →

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