Nuclear power- one hell of a way to boil water

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.