Pešić Milan

BORN: September 28th, 1951 Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia

GRADUATED: 1975, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade

M.Sc.: 1984, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade
Ph.D.: 1994, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade

SCIENTIFIC TITLE: Scientific adviser

CURRENT POSITION: Director of the Center for Nuclear Technologies and Research "NTI"

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

• RB Reactor Experimental Group Leader (1995-2000)
• Director of the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory "NET" (1993-1995)
• Senior Researcher (1991-1993)
• Head of the RB Research Reactor (1982-1991)
• Researcher (1976-1982)

TOPICS OF RESEARCH:

• Reactor Physics and Engineering
• Nuclear Safety and Criticality Safety
• Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Reactors
• Radioactive Waste and Minor Actinide Transmutation and Partitioning
• Coupled Fast-Thermal Reactors
• Fast Reactors
• Transport of Nuclear Fuel
• Decommissioning of Nuclear Reactors

OTHER:

• President of the Yugoslav Nuclear Society (JND/YUNS), October 2002-
• Visiting Professor at Universita degli studi di Bologna, Italia (2002)
• Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Japan, (2002)
• National Co-ordinator for the IAEA "Incident Reporting System for Research Reactors", 1997 -
• Expert IAEA for Research Reactors
• Liaison Officer for the NEA Data Bank
• Program Manager of the Vinca Nuclear Decommissioning (VIND) Program
• Country Coordinator for the IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Related Databases

AWARDS:

• "Nikola Tesla", XVI SUSEJ, Porec (April 1976)
• Best paper Award in Nuclear section of XXI ETRAN, Banja Luka (1977)
• Annual Award of the "Boris Kidric" Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Vinca, (October 1984)
• Best paper Award in Nuclear section of XXXI ETRAN, Bled (1987)
• October Award of the Belgrade City (1991)
• Authors Recognition of the American Nuclear Society (1991)

P. Strugar, O. Šotic, M. Ninkovic, M. Pešic, D. Altiparmakov: "Conversion of the RB Reactor Neutrons by High-Enriched Uranium Fuel and Lithium Deuteride", Kernenergie, 24 (3), pp. 101-104, Berlin FRG (Marz 1981)

M. Pešic, H. Markovic, M. Šokcic, I. Miric, M. Prokic, P. Strugar: "Experimental Fuel Channel For Samples Irradiation at the RB Reactor", Kernenergie, 27 (11-12), pp. 461?464, Berlin FRG (December 1984)

M. Pešic, N. Zavaljevski, M. Miloševic, D. Stefanovic, D. Popovic, D. Nikolic, P. Marinkovic, S. Avdic: "A Study on Criticality of Coupled Fast-Thermal Core HERBE at RB Reactor", Annals of Nuclear Energy, UK, Vol. 18, No. 7. pp. 413-420 (1991)

S. Avdic, M. Pešic: "The RB Reactor Uranium Fuel Enrichment Verification by Gamma-Ray Spectrometry", Applied Radiation and Isotopes, International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation, Part A, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 1155-1157 (1992)

M. Pešic, P. Marinkovic, D. Stefanovic: "A New Method for Measurement of Safety Rods Drop Times", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 39, No. 5, Part II, pp. 1502-1505 (October 1992)

P. Marinkovic, S. Avdic, M. Pešic, N. Zavaljevski: "The Effect of the Neutron Spectra Unfolding Method on the Fast Neutron Dose Determination", Nuclear Instruments and Methods - Part A, Vol. A321, pp. 333-335 (1992)

M. Pešic, S. Avdic, D. Stefanovic: "Verification of Temperature Coefficients of Reactivity in the Coupled Fast-Thermal Core 'HERBE'", Kerntechnik, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 400-402 (1992)

M. Miloševic, M. Pešic, S. Avdic, D. Nikolic: "A Comparative Study of Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction", Annals of Nuclear Energy, UK, Vol. 22, No. 6. pp. 389-394 (1995)

D. Stefanovic, M. Pešic: "From a Critical Assembly Heavy Water - Natural Uranium to the Fast-Thermal Research Reactor in the Institute "Vin;a"", (in Serbian: "Od kriticnog sistema teška voda - prirodni uranijum do brzo-termickog istraživackog reaktora u "Vinci"), monograph, pp. 1-180, Institut za nuklearne nauke "Vinca", ISBN 86-80055-68-9, Vinca SRJ (septembra 1995)

M. Pešic, S. Cupac: "Research Reactors: Working in a Difficult Regime", Nuclear Engineering International, Vol. 41, No. 498, pp. 40-41 (January 1996)

M. Pešic: "Designs and Experiments for Studies of Fast Neutron Fields at the RB Reactor", Journal of Neutron Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 153-170 (1996)

N. Zavaljevski, Lj. Kostic, M. Pešic, A. Zavaljevski: "Adaptive Estimation of the Prompt-Neutron Decay Constant Using Autoregressive Moving Average Modeling", Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 122, No. 1, pp. 68-78 (January 1996)

M. Miloševic, M. Pešic: "An Analysis of Burnup Reactivity Credit for Reactor RA Spent Fuel Storage", Nuclear Engineering and Design, Journal of ENS, Vol. 180, pp. 29-35 (1998)

M. P. Pešic, M. M. Ninkovic: "Comparison of the MCNPTM Calculated and Measured Radiation Field Quantities Near the RB Reactor," Health Physics, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 276-281 (September 1999)

M. P. Pešic: "RB Reactor: Natural Uranium Rods in Heavy Water", International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments, NEA/NSC/DOC(95)03/IV, Vol. IV, contribution LEU-MET-THERM-001, pp. 2+46, 1999 Edition, OECD/NEA, Nuclear Science Committee, Paris, France (September 30, 1999)

M. P. Pešic: "RB Reactor: Lattices of 2%-Enriched Uranium Elements in Heavy Water", International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments, NEA/NSC/DOC(95)03/IV, Vol. IV, contribution LEU-MET-THERM-002, pp. 2+146, 1999 Edition, OECD/NEA, Nuclear Science Committee, Paris, France (September 30, 1999)

M. Pešic: "Modern Research Reactors and the RA Reactor" (in Serbian: "Moderni istraživacki reaktori i reaktor RA" u Istraživacki reaktor RA. Revitalizacija, modernizacija i korišcenje, ed. M. Davidovic), pp. 9-56, Institut za nuklearne nauke 'Vinca', Vinca (1999)

M. P. Pešic: "RB Reactor: Lattices of 80%-Enriched Uranium Elements in Heavy Water", International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments, NEA/NSC/DOC(95)03/II, Vol. II, contribution HEU?COMP-THERM-017, pp. 2+189, 2000 Edition, OECD/NEA, Nuclear Science Committee, Paris, France (September 30, 2000)

M. Pešic: "Calculation of Neutron Production in Selected Materials by Beam of Charged Particles of Intermediate Energies", Nuklearna Tehnologija, Vol. XVI, No. 1, pp. 34-38 (2001)

M. P. Pešic: "RB Reactor: Natural Uranium Rods in Heavy Water", International Handbook of Evaluated Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiments, NEA/NSC/DOC(95)03/IV, Vol. IV, contribution LEU-MET-THERM-001, rev.1, pp.2+46, 2001 Edition, OECD/NEA, Nuclear Science Committee, (September 30, 2001)

M. Pešic: "Criticality Safety of LEU and HEU Fuel Elements in Heavy Water Lattices", Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 145, No.2, pp. 225-233 (October 2003)