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| Mr Alexander Bychkov |
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Deputy Director General Alexander Bychkov, will give a lecture on nuclear energy at ANSTO on Tuesday 28 October, as part of our distinguished lecture series.
In this talk Mr Bychkov will share his thoughts on the current and future role of nuclear energy in the global mix. Across the world the planned construction of new nuclear plants is continuing to increase with new entrants and adopters being added to the nuclear power club.
In the Asia-Pacific region, countries such as China, India, Pakistan and South Korea are continuing to increase installed nuclear capacity through the construction of, or newly announced build programs for new plants.
In addition to these countries constructing nuclear power plants, several other countries in the region have announced plans, or are seriously considering the installation of nuclear power to provide them with base-load power.
You can see a collection of lectures, podcasts and presentations from previous distinguished lectures here.
Lecture details
Date: Tuesday 28 October
Time: 1:30pm
Location: AINSE Theatre, Lucas Heights
Cost: Free
About the speaker
Mr Bychkov gained his PhD in 1998 and joined the IAEA as Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy in February 2011.
His experience and main areas of activity cover molten salt chemistry, the chemistry and technology of actinides and nuclear fuel, the closed fuel cycle.
This includes all aspects of the fast reactors fuel cycle, spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and high-level waste treatment, hot laboratory techniques, radionuclide technologies and applications of research reactors. He is also a leading specialist in the field of non-aqueous methods of nuclear fuel reprocessing (pyro-processing).