Giovanni Laranjo de Stefani

Vice-coordinator of the Nuclear Engineering Program COPPE/UFRJ and Head of the Nuclear Engineering Department DNC/Poli/UFRJ. FAPERJ Young Researcher Scholarship, editor of the Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences (BJRS). Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ in the area of #8203;#8203;Reactor Physics of the Department of Nuclear Engineering (DNC/POLI) and Full Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Nuclear Engineering COPPE/UFRJ, also in the area of #8203;#8203;reactor physics. The researcher's main line of work is the use of thorium-based nuclear fuels in power reactors, with the objective of minimizing waste, burning actinides and exploring this resource as a potential substitute for uranium. Since thorium is more abundant than uranium on the Earth's surface and Brazil has the largest thorium reserve in the world according to data from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), this is a factor that goes against sustainability, which is a subject of great interest in our society today. Since thorium produces less transuranics. Graduated in Physics from the University of São Paulo in 2010, master's degree in Nuclear Technology - Reactors from the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research IPEN/USP in 2013, doctorate in Energy at UFABC in 2017 and did a Post-Doctorate at the Center for Nuclear Engineering (CEN) of IPEN. He participated in the Project for the Analysis of the Decommissioning Process of Brazilian Nuclear Power Plants, financed by Eletrobras Termonuclear SA (ELETRONUCLEAR) and the Research Development Foundation (FUNDEP), carried out at the Federal University of ABC. Specialist in computer codes for simulating nuclear reactors using the Monte Carlo Method (MCNP/SERPENT), nuclear engineering, numerical methods and programs in various languages #8203;#8203;such as Python and Fortran. Coordinator of the National Thorium Research Network, an initiative proposed by the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN) with a strategic interest in the development of thorium-fueled reactor technologies, and coordinator of the registered research group of the CNPq Thorium Group directory. He works in other research areas such as Small Modular Reactors, Microreactors and space reactors with thermonuclear propulsion. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)