Young-Min Kwon

About Young-Min Kwon

Accomplished nuclear engineer with about 40 years of experience in the performance and safety analysis of nuclear reactor systems.• Expertise in system design and transient analysis of commercial PWRs, sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs), molten-chloride salt fast reactors (MCFRs), and small integral modular reactors (SMRs).• Extensive R&D experience in advanced LWR and SFR safety systems, with a focus on inherent and passive safety features.• Proficient in developing thermal hydraulic models and utilizing various computational tools for comprehensive safety assessment.• Deep knowledge in thermal hydraulics, including water, liquid-metal, and molten salt systems.FIELD OF EXPERTISEDesign engineering for commercial PWR, SFR, and MCFR • Performance and safety analysis for reactor design and licensing • Development of physical models and computer tools • Two-phase flow and heat transfer in water and liquid-metal systems

Experience

1. Principal Engineer, Nuclear Safety & Licensing

   TerraPower

   Nov 2012 — Present

   15800 Northup Way, Bellevue, WA

Education

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Skills

• Deterministic Safety Analysis of Dbe and Bdbe
• Thermal Hydraulics of Water & Liquid-Sodium
• Thermal
• Passive Safety System
• Nuclear Safety
• Code Verification & Validation
• High-Energy Line Breaks & Containment Analysis
• Thermodynamics
• Engineering
• Nuclear Reactor System Design
• Nuclear Engineering
• Reactor
• Critical Heat Flux (Chf)
• Energy
• Heat Transfer
• Factory
• Simulations
• Fluid Dynamics
• Fortran
• Two-Phase Flow & Heat Transfer
• Analysis
• Numerical Analysis
• Non-Loca & Sb-Loca
• Nuclear
• Pwr, Smr, and Sfr
• Safety Engineering