Fabio Alcaro

Thermalhydraulic Team Lead

Greater Lyon Area

About

Senior Consultant as safety analyst and thermal-hydraulic engineer. Extensive knowledge in nuclear reactor physics and thermal-hydraulics of power plants. Deep interest in statistical models, machine learning and data science.

Experience

  • Senior Thermalhydraulics and Nuclear Safety Engineer at Thorizon
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Responsible of thermal-hydraulic safety analysis in support of the Thorizon's Molten Salt Reactor design

  • Engineering Consultant at NRG
    Jan 2014 - Feb 2024 · 10 yrs 2 mos

    Nuclear engineer in the Licensing & Safety Consultancy team (Safety & Power Business Unit).

  • Politecnico di Torino - Reactor Physics Group (Torino)
    • Post Doctoral Researcher (Nuclear Engineering)
      May 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

      I am currently involved in the development of neutronic calculations for the preliminary design of the MSFR within the EVOL project.

    • PhD in Nuclear Engineering
      Jan 2009 - Apr 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Neutronic calculations group. The main accomplishment of my work was the design of a reactor kinetic code coupling steady-state neutron transport solvers (DRAGON, ERANOS) with a kinetic module, implementing the quasi-static algorithm (IQM, PCQM).

  • Internship at CEA
    Mar 2010 - Jul 2010 · 5 mos

    Design of a kinetic package for the coupling to the latest neutron transport solver developed within the framework of the ERANOS code system

  • Internship at SCK-CEN
    Feb 2008 - Jun 2008 · 5 mos

    Internship period at SCK-CEN in collaboration with the MYRRHA group. Neutronic calculations on spallation target for MYRRHA ADS using MCNPX code.