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Dr. Kent Welter

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Expertise

Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis, Generation IV Reactors, Thermal-Hydraulics, Nuclear Analysis, Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Power, Sustainable Development, Nuclear Engineering Education and Training, Knowledge Management, and Climate Change.

Experience in the area

Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University (2002). Experience as a Reactor Systems Engineer at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Executive Committee Member, Enviromental Sciences Division, American Nuclear Society.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

There are 104 currently operating nuclear power plants in the US.
Over the past thirty years, there have been no deaths related to the operation of nuclear power plants. Compare that with thousands of deaths for the coal and hydro power industry.
Nuclear power supplies over 20% of electricity in the US. In Europe, this number is as high as 33%.
Cold fusion was discovered decade

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Recent Answers from Dr. Kent Welter

2009-09-28 Can the use of nuclear energy be justified?:

Can you provide me with more information with respect to your basis. For example, nuclear energy for power production? Nuclear energy for hydrogen production? Technically, nuclear energy also includes

2009-08-27 Ph.D research topics:

so very sorry for not getting back to you sooner. i love to have the opportunity to suggest research topics. A new hot topic right now is small, integral light-water reactors. I am the Safety Analysis

2009-06-01 Useful isotopes from fission:

Hi! Sorry for taking so long to answer your question. Swamped at work lately. You bet there are good uses for radioactive isotopes. Here's a fact sheet from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the

2009-04-07 reuse of nuclear waste fuel:

I like your thinking, but it still won't work :( For effective heat transfer, you would need a fluid medium around the fuel. Placing a pipe near warm fuel rods would be so incredibly inefficient. In addition

2009-04-07 reuse of nuclear waste fuel:

OK. The tank would not reach boiling temperature. Only the cladding, right next to the fuel inside the dry cask, can reach temperatures up to 400C. The temperature on the outside of the storage vault or

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