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Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
First name / Surname
Paolo Balestra
Desired employment / Nuclear Engineering
Occupational field
Education and training
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Principal subjects/occupational skills
covered
Name and type of organization
providing education and training
Dates
November 2013 - Today
Ph.D. in “ Energy and Environment” (29th Cycle)
Analysis of an Osksrshamn-2 instability event using the advanced 3D Neutronic/Thermal Hydraulic
system code RELAP5-3D©/PHISICS
“La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
January 2010 - October 2012
Title of qualification awarded
Master of Science in energy engineering (110/110 cum laude) specialized in Nuclear energy
production, with Industrial engineering license (Section A, sector b)
Principal subjects/occupational skills
covered
Activities of design, construction and management of Nuclear Power Station, including studies on the
“Reactor physics”, ”Advanced heat engineering“, ” Instrumentation and control nuclear power
plants”, ”Applied aerodynamics”, “Plasma physics”
Name and type of organization
providing education and training
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Principal subjects/occupational skills
covered
Name and type of organization
providing education and training
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“La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
September 2006 - December 2009
Bachelor of Science in energy engineering
Activities of design in the production, conversion, distribution and management of the energy,
including studies on the “Introduction to nuclear energy”, “Thermo-fluid dynamics”, “Mechanics
of solids”, “heat engineering”, “Mechanical metallurgy”
“La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
Work experience
Dates
May 2014 – April 2016
Occupation or position held
Research Fellowship
Main activities and responsibilities
Development of RELAP5-3D©/PHISICS coupled codes model for the study of the Oskarshamn-2 1999
instability event
Name and address of employer
Department of Astronautic, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE) of the University of Rome "La
Sapienza", 244, Palazzo Baleani, corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome 00186, Italy
Dates
Occupation or position held
May 2013 – November 2013
Term Contract
Main activities and responsibilities
Development & validation of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) advanced 3D Neutronic/Thermal
Hydraulic system code RELAP5-3D©/PHISICS
Name and address of employer
Department of Astronautic, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE) of the University of Rome "La
Sapienza", 244, Palazzo Baleani, corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome 00186, Italy
Dates
Occupation or position held
March 2012 – present
Visiting Student
Main activities and responsibilities
Research Fellow at the Engineering Simulator Group. Development of best-estimate thermal-hydraulic
and neutronic simulation models of nuclear systems.
- Teacher of lectures on “Simulation Tools 1&2” to Technical Support Organizations staff of several
Countries. Framework: EU FP7 funded Project “DEVCO” (2016).
- Participation to the IAEA Benchmark Analyses of the Shutdown Heat Removal Tests in the EBR
II Reactor (2014-present)
- RELAP5-3D© TH calculations of CABRI SFR experiments and KASOLA facility Pre-Tests.
Framework: EU FP7 funded Project “JASMIN” (2013-2015)
- Collaboration with the PHISICS code development group of the Idaho National Laboratory.
Validation activities (2013-present)
- Participation to the OECD-NEA/US-NRC Oskarshamn-2 (O2) BWR Stability Benchmark for
Coupled Code Calculations and Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (2012-present)
Name and address of employer
ENEA, the Italian National Agency for Energy, New Technologies and Sustainable Development “Casaccia“ Research Center, 301, Via Anguillarese, S.Maria di Galeria, Rome 00123, Italy
Personal skills and
competences
Italian
Other languages English, French
Mother tongue
Understanding
Self-assessment
Speaking
Writing
Listening
Reading
English
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
French
Basic
Basic
Basic
Basic
Basic
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Computer skills and competences
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Spoken interaction Spoken production
I have an intermediate level certificate released from The New British Centre of Rome in July
2012
Five years of experience in 3D Neutronic/Thermal Hydraulic system code RELAP5-3D©. In the last
three years I have also used the advanced INL neutronic code PHISICS coupled with RELAP5-3D©. I
am a proficient user of the following programming languages: C/C++, Perl, Python, Fortran and
Matlab and I am skilled in data mining and post processing of huge databases (e.g. a large Xsec.
library generated using the CASMO code) and also in the scientific software development and
maintenance. In the last two years I have used the ORNL code SCALE for Xsec. library generation
and on the quantification of their associated uncertainties. During my B.S. thesis I have gained much
experience in multiphysics code ANSYS for structural and thermal FEM analysis. I am an expert user
of Microsoft Windows OS and Microsoft Office package especially Excel and Visual Basic. I am a
proficient user of LINUX-like OS and UNIX operating systems for high performance computing.
Finally I am able to work with computer-aided design software like Solid Works and AutoCAD, and
with graphics editors like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Publications, Technical Reports,
international Conferences Papers
PUBLICATIONS:
Papers in peer-reviewed conferences:
[1] Balestra P., Parisi C.,
“EBR-II Static Neutronic Calculations by PHISICS / MCNP6 codes”, Transaction of American Nuclear
Society , Annual Meeting 2016, 2016
[2] Perez-Martin S., Pfrang W., Bandini G., Ederli S., Balestra P., Parisi C.
“Single and Two-phase sodium flow analysis for two TUCOP CABRI tests using the ASTEC-Na code”,
The 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal – Hydraulics, NURETH-16, Nice,
France , 2015
[3] Bandini G., Ederli S., Parisi C., Balestra P., Haselbauer M., Perez-Martin S., et al. “Pre-test
analyses for the experimental sodium loop KASOLA with ASTEC-Na and benchmarking with other
codes”, Proceedings of ICAPP 2015, Nice, France , Paper ID 15222, 2015
[4] Balestra P., Parisi C., Negrenti E., Giannetti F., Caruso G.
“Effects of cross sections library parameters on the OECD/NEA Oskarshamn-2 Benchmark solution”,
PHYSOR 2014 – The Role of Reactor Physics Toward a Sustainable Future, The Westin Miyako,
Kyoto, Japan, Paper ID 1126097, 2014
[5] Balestra P., Parisi C., Giannetti F., Negrenti E., Naviglio A.
“Oskarshamn-2 BWR instability event modelling by RELAP5-3D code”, The 15th International Topical
Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal – Hydraulics, NURETH-15, Pisa, Italy, Paper ID 063, 2013
Publications on International Journals, Books, Chapter of Books:
[1] Balestra P., Giannetti F., Caruso G., Alfonsi A.
“New RELAP5-3D Lead and LBE Thermophysical Properties Implementation for Safety Analysis of
Gen IV Reactors", Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, vol. 2016, Article ID 1687946, 15
pages, February 2016, doi:10.1155/2016/1687946
[2] Balestra P., Parisi C., Alfonsi A., Rabiti C.
“Simulation of AER-DYN-002/003 Control Rod Ejection Benchmark by RELAP5-3D/PHISICS Coupled
Codes”, Nuclear Technology, America Nuclear Society, Volume 193, Number 1, Pages 1-14, January
2016, doi:10.13182/NT14-138
[3] Balestra P., Parisi C., Giannetti F., Caruso G.
“Effects of cross sections library parameters on the OECD/NEA Oskarshamn-2 Benchmark solution",
Annals of Nuclear Energy, vol. 85, Pages 643–651, November 2015,
doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2015.06.019
[4] Balestra P., Parisi C., Negrenti E., Sepielli M.
“Modeling by RELAP5-3D© System Code of the Instability Transient Occurred on 25th February 1999
at the Oskarshamn-2 BWR”, Energia, ambiente e innovazione, ENEA, vol. 6/2013, Pages 64-74,
Rome, Italy, November 2014, doi:10.12910/EAI2013-36
Rome, May 27th 2016
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