A collaboration agreement on reactor core physics studies has been signed between the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives – CEA) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The scientific collaboration focuses on feasibility analysis of representative configurations of core degradation situation during severe accidents in nuclear reactors, and includes a Ph.D research study conducted and financed

Our paper, “Estimation of the delayed neutron fraction b_eff of the MEASTRO core in MINERVE Zero Power Reactor” was presented at the PHYSOR 2014 conference in Kyoto, Japan. This work has been done in collaboration with researchers from  CEA DEN/CAD/DER/SPEx/LPE headed by Dr. Patrick Blaise and with researchers from NRCN. This work summarizes the results and analyses of a set of measurements, performed at ZPR MINERVE in Cadarache during September 2013, in order to estimate the

A new Ph.D. student is joining our group these days – Marat Margulis. Marat is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering Department at BGU and has been an M.Sc. student in the Unit of Energy Engineering in Ben-Gurion University since 2012, majoring in Nuclear Energy under the supervision of Prof. Eugene Schwageraus from the Unit of Nuclear Engineering in Ben-Gurion University. Marat’s study focused on two subjects; the use of Thorium in BWRs fuel assemblies to improve its conversi