Project Title: Iodine oxides behaviour modelling
Place: Villeneuve d'Ascq (France)
Duration: 24 monthes
Salary ~2250 euros nets / month
Start date: 01/11/2014
Job description:
During a severe accident, which happens to a nuclear facility, with a loss of the coolant, the radionuclides coming from the fuel fission can be released outside, all the most that they can form volatile species. Iodine is a particularly important fission product due to its radiological consequences at short term, after few weeks.
Iodine can be present inside the nuclear containment building either under volatile form (I2 and CH3I) or under aerosol form (metallic iodide like caesium iodide or iodine oxides). The French nuclear reactors are equipped with specific filtering devices and from filtering containment venting system which is a sand bed filter. Within the framework of the call for projects titled “RSNR”, regarding nuclear safety and radioprotection improvements, the MIRE (MItigation Releases to the Environment) project was selected. This post-doctorate is part of the MIRE project. This project of 6 years duration ( 2013-2019 ) includes the IRSN, AREVA, EDF and some academic laboratories.
The post-doctorate work consists in studying the reactive cycle of iodine oxides and iodine nitroxides in severe nuclear accident conditions using quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics softwares (Gaussian, Molpro, Turbomole, Cosmotherm, CPMD, etc.).
The post-doctorate will have relationships with two laboratories:
• The LETR (http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Larecherche/Organisation/equipes/surete-nucleaire/LETR/), located in the nuclear centre of Cadarache, with some skills in fission products reactivity. This laboratory is a part of IRSN (Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear safety) French public expert of the risks, the IRSN contributes to the public policies regarding nuclear safety and regarding protection of the health and the environment with regard to ionizing radiations.
• The PC2A (http://pc2a.univ-lille1.fr/) is a research unit associated to CNRS (UMR 8522) and depending on Lille 1 University. The works of the group " Cinétique Chimique Combustion Réactivité : Sûreté Nucléaire " take place in the field of the improvement of the knowledge to better estimate the potential releases of radio-contaminants in the event of a nuclear accident and the possible chemical reactivity of these releases in the atmosphere.
Contacts
For further information, please contact:
- Florent Louis : [log in to unmask], tel : +33 (0)3.20.33.63.32
- Laurent Cantrel: [log in to unmask], tel : +33 (0)4.42.19.94.50
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