Fuel Engineer

Dr Alejandra de Lara recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge sponsored by Framatome. Her research involved adapting fuel codes for molten salt reactors, comparing their significant advantages to currently operating LWRs. Her work confirmed that high temperature operation allows for high thermodynamic efficiency of power conversion using advanced power cycles, as well as the possibility of using nuclear heat directly to drive industrial processes such as the production of synthetic fuels, hydrogen or district heating.