Mitja Uršič

Senior Research Associate

Jožef Stefan
Institute
Jamova cesta 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 5885 342
Fax: +386 1 5885 377
E-mail: mitja.ursic@ijs.si

Research Interests

• Severe accidents in nuclear power plants
• Vapour explosions in water and sodium
• Debris coolability
• MC3D (program for simulating the interaction of a molten reactor core and water, being developed by IRSN, France)
• Safety of fusion power plants

Education

• Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 2011
• M.Sc. in nuclear engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 2004
• B.Sc. in physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 2001

Projects

• Development and maintenance of independent expertise and tools for predicting and analysis of the severe accidents’ development in nuclear facilities (ARIS, URSJV)
• Pressurization process during vapour explosion in sodium cooled (ARRS)
• Steam explosions in sodium cooled fast reactors (ARRS)
• Feasibility of the modelling of interaction between molten corium and sodium in the MC3D software for SFR applications (IRSN)
• Safety and environment project (DEMO) – WPSAE (EuroFusion)
• Nuclear Power Plant Krško outages, leader of Jožef Stefan Institute activities, since 2015
• Independent expert opinion on Emergency control room in NPP Krško
• Modification of licensee documentation of NPP Krško
• 3rd periodic safety review of NPP Krško on the topic of safety analyses

Teaching

• 2012 - : assistant for Nuclear engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana
• 2020 - : assistant for Nuclear Safety, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana

Professional Experience

• 2007 -        : Jozef Stefan Institute - Reactor Engineering Division (R4)
• 2011 - 2012: Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (post-doc)
• 2004 - 2007: Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration
• 2001 - 2004: Jozef Stefan Institute -  Microanalytical center (F2-MIC) (postgraduate student)

Selected Publications

The full list of publications is maintained by COBISS. Scopus Author ID: 6602270651.