Nuclear power- one hell of a way to boil water

Fri Mar 18, 2022 12:00 p.m.—1:00 p.m.
Exterior of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall featuring a stone carving of Yale's coat of arms and motto

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Seminar: 
Graduate Student Seminar

Event time: 
Friday, March 18, 2022 - 12:00pm

Speaker: 
Tal Malinovitch

Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University

Event description: 
In this talk, I will give a glimpse into the world of nuclear reactor physics- starting from the fundamentals of the fission process, ending the physics of an entire core, We will touch on topics like safety in reactors, homogenization of the relevant equations, reactor dynamics and finally we’ll talk about what happened in Chernobyl, time permitting.

Contact: 
GSS website

yale.math.grad.student.seminar@gmail.com