Comprehensive Nuclear Materials

Rudy Konings graduated from Utrecht University with an MSc in Earth Sciences in 1985. He then joined the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN as researcher in the field of thermodynamics of nuclear materials and defended his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1990. He stayed at ECN and subsequently at NRG (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group) working on nuclear fuel-related issues, his last role being head of the unit "Fuel, Actinides and Isotopes". In 1999 he joined the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Karlsruhe (formerly the Institute for Transuranium Elements). There he currently is the head of the Nuclear Fuel Safety Unit, responsible for the nuclear fuel related research, comprising fuel synthesis, characterization, and accident behavior. In addition he is part-time professor at the Delft University of Technology, holding the chair "Chemistry of the nuclear fuel cycle". His research interests are nuclear fuels and actinide materials, with particular emphasis on high temperature chemistry and thermodynamics. He is a (co)author of more than 300 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journal and 14 book chapters, has been editor of Journal of Nuclear Materials (2009-2012), and editor-in-chief of the first edition of Comprehensive Nuclear Materials. Dr. Todd Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison since 2003. Professor Allen's research expertise is in the area of materials related issues in nuclear reactors, specifically radiation damage and corrosion. Dr. Allen has established the Extreme Environment Laboratory equipped with facilities for a wide array of high temperature studies as well as the ion beam laboratory for radiation damage studies. Dr. Allen is also the Scientific Director for the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility at Idaho National Laboratory, a position that he holds in conjunction with his faculty position at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Stoller is currently a Distinguished Research Staff Member in the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and serves as the ORNL Program Manager for Fusion Reactor Materials for ORNL. He joined ORNL in 1984, and is actively involved in research on the effects of radiation on structural materials and fuels for nuclear energy systems. His primary expertise is in the area of computational modeling and simulation. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications and reports on the effects of radiation on materials, as well as having edited the proceedings of several international conferences. Shinsuke Yamanaka has been a Professor in the Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University since 1998. Prof. Yamanaka has studied the thermophysics and thermochemistry of nuclear fuel and materials. His research for the hydrogen behavior in LWR fuel cladding is notable among his achievements and he received the Young Scientist Award (1980) and the Best Paper Award (2004) from Japan's Atomic Energy Society. Prof. Yamanaka has been the program officer of Japan's Science and Technology Agency since 2005 and the visiting professor of Fukui University since 2009. He is also the associate dean of the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University.

Basic Aspects of Radiation Effects in Solids / Basic Aspects of Multi-scale modelling Material Properties / Oxide fuels for LWRs and FNRs Advanced Fuels / Fuel Cladding / Nuclear Fuel Performance Modelling and Simulation Radiation effects in structural and functional materials for fission and fusion reactors Material performance and corrosion / Waste materials