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Janne Wallenius
Janne Wallenius is a Swedish reactor physicist. He is a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Wallenius was born in 1968 in Trollhättan, Sweden. At the age of 18, he won the particle physics contest on the Swedish television show "Kvitt eller dubbelt" (''Double or Nothing''), after which he was nicknamed "partikel-Janne". He studied Engineering Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg from 1987 to 1992. He got his PhD degree in Quantum Chemistry from Uppsala University in 1996. In 2008 he was promoted to full professor at KTH. In 2013, he co-founded the company Blykalla ("Lead Cold") which designs small lead-cooled fast reactor The lead-cooled fast reactor is a nuclear reactor design that uses molten lead or lead-bismuth eutectic as its coolant. These materials can be used as the primary coolant because they have low neutron absorption and relatively low melting poi ...s called SEALER intended for commercial power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicante - Janne
Alicante (, , ; ; ; officially: ''/'' ) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in the Valencian Community. Toponymy The name of the city echoes the Arabic name ''Laqant'' (), ''al-Laqant'' (اللَّقَنْت) or ''Al-qant'' (), which in turn reflects the Latin ''Lucentum'' and Greek root ''Leuké'' (or ''Leuka''), meaning "white". History The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7,000 years. The first tribes of hunter-gatherers moved gradually from Central Europe between 5000 and 3000 BC. Some of the earlier settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil. By 1000 BC, Greek and Phoenician traders had begun to visit the eastern coast of Spain, establishing small trading ports and introducing the native Iberian tribes to the alphabet, iron, and the pottery wheel. The Carthaginian general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
