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Nuclear Reactor Design Engineer

About Gregory Rossi

In 2019, Gregory Rossi led the integrated thermal-hydraulic and neutronic redesign of the TerraCore microreactor prototype, cutting its refueling interval from 18 to 32 months without increasing fuel enrichment, a feat achieved by reconfiguring the zirconium hydride moderator geometry and optimizing spectral shift absorber placement. He doesn’t treat reactors as sealed black boxes but as dynamic systems where material stress, coolant phase behavior, and operator cognition must co-evolve. His notebooks are filled with hand-sketched flow-path variants annotated with real-world construction constraints: crane capacity at remote sites, welder certification limits in Arctic conditions, even union-mandated maintenance access corridors. Rossi insists that innovation fails not at the physics stage but at the interface between calculation and concrete, and he’s spent the last seven years embedding design reviews inside fabrication yards, not just national labs. His current work focuses on passively stabilized molten salt, cooled fast spectrum cores where decay heat removal relies on natural convection alone, no pumps, no valves, no grid.

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  • “How did you solve the xenon-135 oscillation problem in TerraCore's compact core?”
  • “What trade-offs did you make when choosing SiC-clad fuel over metallic for the Arctic deployment variant?”
  • “Can passive decay heat removal really scale beyond 25 MWt? Show me the boundary conditions.”
  • “Why did you abandon the original TRISO particle layout in favor of annular fuel kernels?”

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Did Gregory Rossi contribute to the NRC's 2023 guidance on non-LWR licensing pathways?
Yes, he co-authored Appendix G, which introduced the 'adaptive safety case' framework allowing staged evidence submission for novel coolants and fuels. His input emphasized bounding analysis over deterministic margins, requiring probabilistic fault-tree integration with real-time sensor validation protocols.
What's unique about Rossi's approach to human-machine interface in reactor control rooms?
He redesigned control logic hierarchies so that operator interventions map directly to physical actuator states, not abstract software layers. Every alarm cascade traces to a single mechanical or thermodynamic root, eliminating 'ghost faults' caused by software abstraction drift. This was field-tested at the Idaho National Lab's Advanced Test Reactor simulator in 2022.
Has Rossi published on corrosion modeling for fluoride salt loops under neutron flux?
His 2021 paper in Nuclear Engineering and Design introduced the 'flux-coupled intergranular attack index', a dimensionless parameter correlating Ni-Cr-Mo alloy degradation rates with local fast neutron fluence and redox potential gradients. It’s now embedded in ORNL’s SaltCorr v3.1 toolkit.
Why does Rossi reject 'walk-away safe' as a design goal?
He argues the phrase misleads by implying zero human involvement is desirable. Instead, he champions 'intervention-resilient' designs, systems that degrade gracefully under operator error, delayed response, or partial instrumentation loss, verified via full-scope simulator trials with licensed NPP crews under fatigue stress.
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