Dr. Arthur Situm is pleased to announce new funding from the University of Regina to help support his lab’s infrastructure. He received $600,000 from the Canada Research Chairs program, and $200,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to help support his lab’s infrastructure.
He says there are plans to deploy several new small modular reactor (SMR) designs in Canada, which have lower upfront capital costs than traditional nuclear power plants and can be deployed to smaller grids, such as Saskatchewan’s. Many of these advanced designs propose to use novel fuels, but these fuels introduce new corrosion problems that must be resolved before the reactor designs can be licensed.
Situm’s lab is developing strategies to mitigate the corrosion of metals when using novel molten salt fuels, to enhance the safety of standard nuclear fuel, and working on how to best dispose of these fuels.
Read the full article at Discourse Research Magazine by the University of Regina.
Overall, my research program will provide valuable insight to both government and private industry as they build and deploy SMRs, while also helping students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to work in this emerging industry.
Dr. Arthur Situm