Overview of Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications

with Mehdi Asgardi, Senior Computational Nuclear Engineer
Oak Ridge National Lab

Nov 1, 2024, 09:30 AM

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Mehdi Asgari is a senior computational nuclear engineer and industry engagement coordinator in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  He is involved with the development and benchmarking of the advanced modeling & simulation (M&S) capabilities including those in the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA). Having held positions at Louisiana State University, DOE national labs, and industry, Dr. Asgari has over 35 years of experience in the areas of particle transport method, computational reactor physics capability development and analysis, nuclear fuel cycle analysis and reload design and optimization applied to Light Water Reactors (LWRs). Prior to joining ORNL in 2017, Dr. Asgari worked at Studsvik ScandPower for over nine years as a principal consultant performing reactor core M&S and analysis. At Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Dr. Asgari was the manager for Reactor Physics Analysis & Design department. At Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), Dr. Asgari worked as a technical program manager (TPM) for seven years responsible for fuel cycle and reload design as well as licensing analyses for several BWR nuclear power plants. He holds numerous issued patents in services and product designs applied to LWR.

He received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, and doctorate in engineering science with emphasis in Nuclear Engineering from Louisiana State University.