Vaclav is currently a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Fluid Dynamics and Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Czech Tehcnical University in Prague. His primary interests are reactor thermal hydraulics and plant design. As a doctoral student at MIT, he participated in a design project developing nuclear power and propulsion systems for a manned mission to Mars. This design project concerned both the spaceship nuclear reactor and the Mars surface reactor. |