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 Hanna Kiyavitskaya has a PhD in nuclear power engineering (1991). She is Scientific secretary of the Joint Institute for Power&Nuclear Research Institute – Sosny, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Since 1991 she has involved in the theoretical research of nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycles, investigations of the interactions of radiation with the matter, theory of nuclear reactions in high energy field, management of radioactive waste and creation of a subcritical facility driven by an external neutron source.
She was the manager of the Project B-070 “Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of the Peculiarities of Transmutation of Long-Lived Fission Products and Minor Actinides in a Subcritical Assembly Driven by a Neutron Generator” under the auspices of International Science and Technology Center (Moscow, Russia). The Center was established with European Community, Governments of Japan, United States and Russia. The Project was financially supported with the European Community. In the frame of the project subcritical facility “Yalina” consisting of a subcritical thermal assembly, a high intensity neutron generator and vital support systems was developed, designed and put into operation. “Yalina” facility is uranium-polyethylene zero power subcritical assembly wit low enriched uranium (10%).
Yalina-Booster subcritical facility was put into operation in 2005. Now she is the manager of the ISTC project B-1341 “Analytical and experimental evaluating the possibility of creation of universal volume source of neutrons in the sub-critical booster assembly with low enriched uranium fuel driven by the neutron generator”. In the frame of this project Belarusian and US specialists are joining their efforts to evaluate the consequences of converting the HEU fuel zones (36 and 90%) of booster sub-critical assembly YALINA–Booster to LEU (≤20%). |
