Christopher Sommer

      Georgia Tech

      Biography

      Christopher Sommer is currently a PhD student in the Nuclear Engineering program at Georgia Tech. He has a strong interest in the nuclear fuel cycle and working towards closing the fuel cycle. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgia Tech in nuclear engineering. While working on his bachelor’s degree, he co-authored a paper on a gas cooled subcritical fast reactor driven by a fusion neutron source for transmutation of spent nuclear fuel. He then continued the work in subcritical transmutation for his master’s thesis, and is currently working on fusion driven transmutation for his PhD dissertation.

       

      Christopher

      Current Research

      Chris’s research is work in closing the nuclear fuel cycle via subcritical transmutation. He is working on a sodium cooled fast reactor driven by a fusion neutron source to transmute spent nuclear fuel.   

       

      Education

      MS in Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Tech 2008

      BS in Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Tech 2006

       Recent Publications

      1. “Fuel Cycle Analysis of the Sub-Critical Sodium Cooled Advanced Burner Reactor”, C. Sommer, MS Thesis, NRE Program, Georgia Institute of Technology (2008).

      2. W. M. Stacey, W. van Rooijen, et al.(C. M. Sommer), “A TRU-Zr Metal Fuel, Sodium Cooled, Fast Advanced Burner Reactor Concept”, Nucl. Technol., 162, 53 (2008).

      2. W. M. Stacey, et al.(C. M. Sommer), “Advances in the Sub-Critical, Gas-Cooled, Fast Transmutation Reactor Concept”, Nucl. Technol., 159, 72 (2007).

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