GROUP HEAD

Dr. Bojan Petrovic (Bojan.Petrovic@gatech.edu) Research Interests: Reactor physics, advanced reactors design, nuclear fuel cycle and waste management, modeling and simulations of nuclear systems, industrial and medical applications of nuclear technology. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1995 M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1987 B.S., University of Zagreb, Croatia, 1979 Bojan Petrovic joined Georgia Tech in 2007 as a Professor. Prior to that he acquired industrial experience as a Fellow Scientist in Westinghouse Science and Technology where his primary responsibility was as the project Deputy Director on the development of the advanced, modular IRIS reactor.

Ph.D. Students

M.S. Students

Alumni

Ph.D. STUDENTS

Cal Abel (crabel@gatech.edu) Research Interests: energy storage, reactor kinetics, power conversion systems, cogeneration, synthetic fuel production, economics, policy, finance PhD Student (Fall 2010-Present) Integrating Thermal Energy Storage and Nuclear Reactors: A Technical and Policy Study M.S. Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999 B.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999 Fellow, Sam Nunn Security Program

Joseph Raymond Burns (jburns33@gatech.edu) Research Interests: Advanced reactor core design, advanced fuel design and performance, Generation III+ and IV reactor designs Ph.D. candidate(Fall 2015-present) Modeling and Design Optimization of Additively Manufactured Control Elements for the High Flux Isotope Reactor M.S. in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering - Georgia Tech, 2015 Reactivity Control of a PWR 19X19 Uranium Silicide Fuel Assembly B.S. in Nuclear Engineering - Georgia Tech, 2013 Summer intern at NuScale Power, 2012, 2013

Timothy Flaspoehler (timothy.flaspoehler@gatech.edu) Research Interests: radiation shielding, hybrid transport methods, parallel computing, reactor dosimetry, damage characterization Ph.D. candidate(Fall 2012-present) Optimizing Performance of Hybrid Transport for Shielding Applications M.S. in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering - Georgia Tech, 2012 Investigation of FW-CADIS Variance Reduction Methodology for Shielding Analyses of a VHTR B.S. in Nuclear Engineering - Georgia Tech, 2010 Summer Intern at ORNL - 2009, 2010 Summer Intern at INL - 2016

Giovanni Maronati (gmaronati@me.gatech.edu) Research Interests: Power Conversion Systems design, Thermal Hydraulic of Light Water Reactors, Heat Transfer Ph.D. candidate(Fall 2014-present) Visiting Researcher - M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2014 Optimization of passive decay heat removal systems for the integral inherently safe light water reactor (I2S-LWR) B.S. in Energy Engineering - Politecnico di Milano, 2011

Kyle Ramey (kmramey@gatech.edu) Research Interests: Reactor physics, computer simulation, parallel computing, reactor core modeling, 3D burnup calculations Ph.D. candidate(Fall 2013-present) M.S. in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering - Georgia Tech, 2017 Development of Serpent-Based Methods for I2S-LWR Depletion Modeling and Sensitivity Studies B.S. in Nuclear Engineering - University of Florida, 2013

ALUMNI

Abiodun Adeniyi - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2013 Impact of Separation Capacity on Transition to Advanced Fuel Cycles Pietro Avigni - Ph.D. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2017 On-line Refueling for the Advanced High Temperature Reactor Visiting Researcher - M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2012 Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of the Advanced High Temperature Reactor for the Evaluation of Steady State and Transient Conditions Alessandro Banzatti - Visiting Researcher - M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2015 Preliminary study of the I2S-LWR spent fuel pool passive cooling system Benjamin Colin Bowers - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2012 Emilien Gros - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2012 Liquid-Salt-Cooled Reactor start-up with natural circulation under Loss-of-Offsite-Power (LOOP) conditions David Hartmangruber - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2015 Using MAVRIC sequence to determine dose rate to accessible areas of the IRIS nuclear power plant Lloyd Michael Huang - Ph.D., 2017 Neutronic Analysis and Optimization of the Advanced High Temperature Reactor Fuel Design Using Machine Learning M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2013 Analysis of multi-recycle thorium fuel cycles in comparison with once-through fuel cycles Christopher Kingsbury - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2015 Fuel cycle cost and fabrication model for fluoride-salt high-temperature reactor (FHR) "Plank" fuel design optimization David Koch - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2009 Investigation and improvement of criticality calculations in MCNP5 involving Shannon entropy convergence Spenser Lewis - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2014 Simplified Core Physics and Fuel Cycle Cost Model for Preliminary Evaluation of LSCR Fueling Options Matthew Lynch - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2015 Analysis of Uncertainty In Decay Heat For I2S-LWR Matias Marquez - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2015 Silicide fuel swelling behavior and its performance in I2S-LWR Jordan McKillop - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2010 Reducing the activation of the IRIS reactor building using the SCALE/MAVRIC methodology Vito Memoli (visting researcher) Jeff Ryckman - M.S. Medical Physics, 2011 Using MCNPX to calculate primary and secondary dose in proton therapy Bo Shi - Ph.D., 2012 Development and implementation of convergence diagnostics and acceleration methodologies in Monte Carlo criticality simulations M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2010 Entropy-based diagnostics of criticality Monte Carlo simulation and higher eigenmode acceleration methodology Timothy Wyant - M.S. Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, 2012 Numerical study of error propagation in Monte Carlo depletion simulations