Claude Renault (CEA)

Claude Renault has been working at CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) for more than 30 years in R&D and E&T. He is senior expert at CEA and professor.

In 2010, he joined the INSTN (The  National  Institute  for  Nuclear  Science  and Technology) where he is currently International Project Leader. His expertise and teaching experience mainly cover thermal-hydraulics, design and operation of nuclear reactors, including the different families of reactors in particular the concepts of 4th generation.

Claude Renault came to CEA in 1984 in the development team of CATHARE, the reference CEA-EDF-AREVA-IRSN computer code for the simulation of accidental transients in Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR). He was subsequently responsible, at national and international level, for several R&D projects in the areas of severe accidents (ASTEC) and nuclear fuel behavior (PLEIADES).

Between 2001 and 2009, he was heavily involved in R&D programs devoted to future nuclear reactors. He intervened at the Directorate of Nuclear Energy (CEA/DEN) in the definition and monitoring of research programs on the different concepts of 4th generation reactors. He chaired the Steering Committee of the Molten Salt Reactor in Generation IV.