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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: August 1, 1976
Nationality: Turkish
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Languages: Turkish, English Fluent (written and spoken)
Educational Background
1994-2001 Hacettepe University Nuclear Engineering Department (B.S.)
2001-2004 Hacettepe University Nuclear Engineering Department (M.S.)
Academical Duties
10/2001-04/2004 Research Assistant in Hacettepe University Nuclear Engineering Department (Turkey)
Professional Experience
04/2004-09/2005 Consultant Engineer for South African Nuclear Energy Cooperation (NECSA) (Working on the PBMR project)
• High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors (HTGR)
• Light Water and Heavy Water Reactor Designs
• Neutronic Design
• Thermal-hydraulic Design
• Thermodynamic Analysis
• Safety Analysis of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors
• Application of the Monte Carlo methods to the accident analysis and related software development.
• Interactions of Air and Water with Graphite In The HTGR Environment
• Reverse Engineering of The Legacy Codes
Computer Experience:
Operating Systems:
DOS, Linux (PC Network), Windows
Programming Languages and Software:
Fortran 77/90, C
Computer Codes:
V.S.O.P, TINTE, Scale, MCNP
Recent Projects:
• Neutronic and thermal-hydraulic calculations for the United States’ DOE Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) project.
• Project Manager of the VSOP-TINTE Model Alingment and Usability Improvemetns Project
• Simulations of Thermal and Reactivity Transients for the PBMR Design
• Air and Water Ingress Calculations for the PBMR Design
• Reverse Engineering of The TINTE Code
• Uncertainty Analyses of PBMR Transients by Utilizing TINTE Code and The Monte Carlo Methods
• Neutronic and Thermal Hydraulic Calculations of Peble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR)
Papers:
• S. SEN, U.E. SIKIK, H. DIKMEN, Y. CECEN, O.K. KADIROGLU, U. COLAK:
"HTR-10 Core Physics Benchmark Problem Results"; IAEA CRP5
Research Coordination Meeting, Nov.2001, Cape Town, South Africa.
• U.E.SIKIK, H.DIKMEN, Y.CECEN, U.COLAK, O.K.KADIROGLU:
"Thorium and Plutonium Utilization in a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor";
Advanced Reactors with Innovative Fuels, Chester, UK, 22-24 October.2001
• U.COLAK, H.DIKMEN, U.E.SIKIK:
"Energy Storage and Release Calculations for HTR-10 Reflector";
HTR-2002 International Meeting on High Temperature Reactors,
April 2002, Patten, Holland
• F.REITSMA, G. STRYDOM, J.B.M. DE HAAS, K.IVANOV, B.TYOBEKA, R.MPHAHLELE, T.J.DOWNAR, V.SEKER, H.D.COUGAR, D.F. DA CRUZ, U.E.SIKIK:
“The PBMR Steady-State and Coupled Kinetics Core Thermal-Hydraulics Benchmark Test Problemsâ€, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 236, Issue 5-6, March 2006, Pages 657-668
• U.E.SIKIK:
"TINTE Analysis of PBMR Reactivity Insertion Transients";
Nuclear Engineering and Desing, Topical Issue, HTR-2006 3rd International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology,
October 1-6, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
• U.E.SIKIK:
"Simulations of Air and Water Ingress Transients for The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) by means of The TINTE Code";
HTR-2008 4th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology, September 28, October 1, 2008, Washington, D. C., USA
Certificates
Short Course on Project Management, University of Pretoria, 2008.
Workshop Participitation:
IAEA Workshop on Status of High-Temperature
Gas-Cooled Reactor Technology
ICTP, Trieste/Italy
7-11 July 2003
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