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Expert in fusion power plant, over 13 years career, over 4 years as Lead Engineer

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Dr. Guangming Zhou is a Nuclear Mechanical Engineer in the nuclear fusion field, with over 10 years of experience on the design and engineering of a complex system - the tritium breeding blanket system (a key system for any D-T fusion electricity-producing devices). Since Jan. 2021, he is the Lead Engineer and Coordinater for the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) Breeding Blanket within the European EUROfusion DEMO Breeding Blanket Project (WPBB), leading a team of 25 FTE manpower with an annual budget of multiple million euros for the design and R&D activities of HCPB Breeding Blanket across over 10 different European research organisations.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Nuclear Engineering
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Feasibility Studies
• ☆ Technology Scouting
• ☆ Fact Checking
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Gap Analysis

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Product Development

Writing Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Translation

Research Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Product Development Concept Development

Work Experience

Scientific Staff

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

January 2017 - Present

Education

PhD

University of Science and Technology of China

September 2011 - November 2016

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Guangming Zhou, Frederik Arbeiter, Urszula Wiącek, Beatriz Brañas, Sergej Gordeev, Achim Kupferschmitt, Yuefeng Qiu, A. Serikov, Jerzy Kotula, Fernando Arranz, et al. (2025). The IFMIF-DONES Irradiation Modules . Nuclear Fusion.

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Pietro Arena, Lorenzo V. Boccaccini, Ion Cristescu, Alessandro Del Nevo, Pierre Sardain, Gandolfo A. Spagnuolo, Marco Utili, Alessandro Venturini (2023). Advancements in Designing the DEMO Driver Blanket System at the EU DEMO Pre-Conceptual Design Phase: Overview, Challenges and Opportunities . Journal of Nuclear Engineering.

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Pietro Arena, Lorenzo Virgilio Boccaccini, Ion Cristescu, Alessandro Del Nevo, Pierre Sardain, Gandolfo Alessandro Spagnuolo, marco utili, Alessandro Venturini (2023). Advancements in Designing the DEMO Driver Blanket System at the EU DEMO Pre-Conceptual Design Phase: Overview, Challenges and Opportunities . Journal of Nuclear Engineering.

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Béla Kiss, Anoop Retheesh, Luis Maqueda, Jin Hun Park (2023). The European DEMO Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the Conclusion of the Pre-Concept Design Phase . Energies.

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Béla Kiss, Anoop Retheesh, Luis Maqueda, Jin Hun Park (2023). The European DEMO Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the Conclusion of the Pre-Concept Design Phase . Energies.

Guangming Zhou, Joerg Rey, Francisco A. Hernández, Ali Abou-Sena, Martin Lux, Frederik Arbeiter, Georg Schlindwein, Florian Schwab (2023). Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup . Applied Sciences.

Guangming Zhou, Joerg Rey, Francisco A. Hernández, Ali Abou-Sena, Martin Lux, Frederik Arbeiter, Georg Schlindwein, Florian Schwab (2023). Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup . Applied Sciences.

Guangming Zhou, Ali Abou-Sena, Bradut-Eugen Ghidersa, Joerg Rey, Francisco A. Hernández, Martin Lux, Georg Schlindwein (2022). Experimental Thermal–Hydraulic Testing of a Mock-Up of the Fuel-Breeder Pin Concept for the EU-DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket . Journal of Nuclear Engineering.

Guangming Zhou, Ali Abou-Sena, Bradut-Eugen Ghidersa, Joerg Rey, Francisco A. Hernández, Martin Lux, Georg Schlindwein (2022). Experimental Thermal–Hydraulic Testing of a Mock-Up of the Fuel-Breeder Pin Concept for the EU-DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket . Journal of Nuclear Engineering.

Guangming Zhou, Iole Palermo, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, David Rapisarda (2022). Shielding Design Optimization of the Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket for the EU DEMO Fusion Reactor . Energies.

Guangming Zhou, iole palermo, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, David (2022). Shielding Design Optimization of the Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket for the EU DEMO Fusion Reactor . Energies.

Guangming Zhou, Anoop Retheesh, Francisco A. Hernández (2021). Application of Inelastic Method and Its Comparison with Elastic Method for the Assessment of In-Box LOCA Event on EU DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Cap Region . Applied Sciences.

Guangming Zhou, Anoop Retheesh, Francisco A. Hernández (2021). Application of Inelastic Method and Its Comparison with Elastic Method for the Assessment of In-Box LOCA Event on EU DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Cap Region . Applied Sciences.

G. Bongioví, A. Häußler, S. Giambrone, I. Catanzaro, R. Forte, G. Zhou, P.A. Di Maio(2021). Structural assessment of a whole toroidal sector of the HELIAS 5-B breeding blanket . Fusion Engineering and Design. 169. p. 112618. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Yudong Lu, Francisco A. Hernández(2021). A Water cooled Lead Ceramic Breeder blanket for European DEMO . Fusion Engineering and Design. 168. p. 112397. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Salvatore D’Amico, Pietro Alessandro Di Maio, Xue Zhou Jin, Francisco Alberto Hernández Gonzalez, Ivo Moscato(2021). Preliminary thermal-hydraulic analysis of the EU-DEMO Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed fusion reactor by using the RELAP5-3D system code . Fusion Engineering and Design. 162. p. 112111. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Qinlan Kang, Francisco A. Hernández, Salvatore D’Amico, Béla Kiss(2020). Thermal hydraulics activities for consolidating HCPB breeding blanket of the European DEMO . Nuclear Fusion. {IOP} Publishing

(2020). Consolidated design of the HCPB Breeding Blanket for the pre-Conceptual Design Phase of the EU DEMO and harmonization with the ITER HCPB TBM program . Fusion Engineering and Design.

Guangming Zhou, Yudong Lu, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Jaakko Leppänen, Minyou Ye(2020). Benchmark of Serpent-2 with MCNP: Application to European DEMO HCPB breeding blanket . Fusion Engineering and Design. 155. p. 111583. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Bradut-Eugen Ghidersa, Francisco A. Hernández, Qinlan Kang, Heiko Neuberger(2019). Design of Two Experimental Mock-Ups as Proof-of-Concept and Validation Test Rigs for the Enhanced EU DEMO HCPB Blanket . Fusion Science and Technology. 75. (8). p. 1016--1023. Informa {UK} Limited

Guangming Zhou, Shuai Wang, Francisco A. Hernández, Hongli Chen(2019). First thermal-hydraulic analysis of a CO2 cooled pebble bed blanket for the EU DEMO . Fusion Engineering and Design. 146. p. 2218--2221. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Heiko Neuberger, Jorg Rey, Qinlan Kang, Lorenzo V. Boccaccini, Evaldas Bubelis, Ivo Moscato, Danilo Dongiovanni(2019). An enhanced, near-term HCPB design as driver blanket for the EU DEMO . Fusion Engineering and Design. 146. p. 1186--1191. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Francisco A. Hernández, Lei Lu, Christian Wegmann, Ulrich Fischer(2019). Nuclear analyses of solid breeder blanket options for DEMO: Status, challenges and outlook . Fusion Engineering and Design. 146. p. 563--567. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Qinlan Kang, Pavel Pereslavtsev(2019). Progress on the helium cooled Molten Lead Ceramic Breeder concept, as a near-term alternative blanket for EU DEMO . Fusion Engineering and Design. 146. p. 1029--1034. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Francisco A. Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Béla Kiss, Qinlan Kang, Heiko Neuberger, Vladimir Chakin, Ramil Gaisin, Pavel Vladimirov, Lorenzo V. Boccaccini, et al.(2019). Advancements in the Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed Breeding Blanket for the EU DEMO: Holistic Design Approach and Lessons Learned . Fusion Science and Technology. 75. (5). p. 352--364. Informa {UK} Limited

Guangming Zhou, Shuai Wang, Francisco A. Hernández, Hongli Chen(2019). Thermal-hydraulic analysis of the First Wall of a CO2 cooled pebble bed breeding blanket for the EU-DEMO . Fusion Engineering and Design. 138. p. 379--394. Elsevier {BV}

(2018). A methodology for thermo-mechanical assessment of in-box LOCA events on fusion blankets and its application to EU DEMO HCPB breeding blanket . Kerntechnik.

F. A. Hernandez and F. Arbeiter and L. V. Boccaccini and E. Bubelis and V. P. Chakin and I. Cristescu and B. E. Ghidersa and M. Gonzalez and W. Hering and T. Hernandez and X. Z. Jin and M. Kamlah and B. Kiss and R. Knitter and M. H. H. Kolb and P. Kurinskiy and O. Leys and I. A. Maione and M. Moscardini and G. Nadasi and H. Neuberger and P. Pereslavtsev and S. Pupeschi and R. Rolli and S. Ruck and G. A. Spagnuolo and P. V. Vladimirov and C. Zeile and G. Zhou(2018). Overview of the HCPB Research Activities in EUROfusion . IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 46. (5). p. xx-xx.

G. Zhou and S. Wang and C. Jin and H. Chen and M. Ye(2018). Steady State and Transient Thermal Analysis of the Updated Helium-Cooled Solid Breeder Blanket for CFETR . IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 46. (5). p. 1422-1428.

Guangming Zhou, Shuai Wang, Cheng Jin, Hongli Chen, Minyou Ye(2018). Steady State and Transient Thermal Analysis of the Updated Helium-Cooled Solid Breeder Blanket for CFETR . IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 46. (5). p. 1422--1428. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Zeile, C., Hernandez, F. A., Maione, I. A., Zhou, G., & Bachmann, C. (2018). Structural assessment of the HCPB breeding blanket segments in the EU DEMO reactor under normal operation and a central plasma disruption. Fusion Engineering and Design .

Zhou, G., Hernández, F. A., Zeile, C., & Maione, I. A. (2017). Transient thermal analysis and structural assessment of an ex-vessel LOCA event on the EU DEMO HCPB breeding blanket and the attachment system. Fusion Engineering and Design. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2017.12.017 .

Guangming Zhou, Francisco Hernández, Lorenzo V. Boccaccini, Hongli Chen, Minyou Ye(2017). Design study on the new EU DEMO HCPB breeding blanket: Thermal analysis . Progress in Nuclear Energy. Elsevier {BV}

Guangming Zhou, Shuai Wang, Hongli Chen(2016). Preliminary Design of the Helium Cooling System for the Helium Cooled Solid Breeder Blanket of CFETR . J Fusion Energ. Springer Nature

(2016). ​Preliminary steady state and transient thermal analysis of the new HCPB blanket for EU DEMO reactor . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

Guangming Zhou, Francisco Hernández, Lorenzo V. Boccaccini, Hongli Chen, Minyou Ye(2016). Preliminary structural analysis of the new HCPB blanket for EU DEMO reactor . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Elsevier {BV}

Wang, S., Zhou, G., Lv, Z., Jin, C., Chen, H.(2016). Design and safety analysis of the helium cooled solid breeder blanket for CFETR . Kerntechnik. 81. (2). p. 192-196.

Guangming Zhou, Qianwen Liu, Min Li, Shuai Wang, Zhongliang Lv, Hongli Chen(2015). Thermal–mechanical analysis of the first wall for CFETR helium cooled solid breeder blanket . Annals of Nuclear Energy. 85. p. 12--16. Elsevier {BV}

Zhou, Guangming, Chen, Hongli, Li, Min, Lv, Zhongliang, Liu, Qianwen, Wang, Shuai, Wang, Xiaoliang, Zheng, Jie, Ye, Minyou(2015). Conceptual design and analysis of the helium cooled solid breeder blanket for CFETR . Fusion Engineering and Design. 96-97. p. 89-94.

Chen, H., Li, M., Lv, Z., Zhou, G., Liu, Q., Wang, S., Wang, X., Zheng, J., Ye, M.(2015). Conceptual design and analysis of the helium cooled solid breeder blanket for CFETR . Fusion Engineering and Design. 96-97. p. 89-94.

Li, M., Chen, H., Wang, S., Liu, Q., Zhou, G., Ye, M.(2015). Optimization of coolant flow distribution for CFETR helium cooled solid breeder blanket . Fusion Engineering and Design. 98-99. p. 1829-1832.

Zhou, Guangming, Lv, Zhongliang, Chen, Hongli, Chen, Chong, Li, Min(2015). Preliminary neutronics design and analysis of helium cooled solid breeder blanket for CFETR . Fusion Engineering and Design. 95. p. 79-83.

Lv, Z., Chen, H., Chen, C., Li, M., Zhou, G.(2015). Preliminary neutronics design and analysis of helium cooled solid breeder blanket for CFETR . Fusion Engineering and Design. 95. p. 79-83.

Zhou, Guangming, Li, Min, Chen, Hongli, Liu, Qianwen, Wang, Shuai, Lv, Zhongliang, Ye, Minyou(2015). Preliminary structural design and thermo-mechanical analysis of helium cooled solid breeder blanket for Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor . Fusion Engineering and Design. 91. p. 39-43.

Chen, H., Zhou, G., Li, S., Chen, Z., Zhao, P.(2015). Subchannel analysis of fuel assemblies of a lead-alloy cooled fast reactor . Progress in Nuclear Energy. 78. p. 182-189.

Zhou, G., Li, M., Liu, Q., Wang, S., Lv, Z., Chen, H., Ye, M.(2015). Thermal Analysis of Breeder Unit for Helium Cooled Solid Breeder Blanket of Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor . Journal of Fusion Energy. 34. (2). p. 339-345.

Zhou, Guangming, Chen, Zhao, Zhou, Tao, Chen, Hongli, Bai, Yunqing, ASME(2014). CFD ANALYSIS OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION ON FUEL CLADDING SURFACE OF CHINA LEAD ALLOY COOLED RESEARCH REACTOR (CLEAR-I) . Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering - 2013, Vol 3.

Chen, Z., Zhou, G., Zhao, P., Chen, H.(2014). Development and application of a thermal-hydraulics analysis code for small modular natural circulation lead or lead-alloy cooled fast reactors . Annals of Nuclear Energy. 73. p. 68-74.

Chen, Z., Zhao, P., Zhou, G., Chen, H.(2014). Study of core flow distribution for small modular natural circulation lead or lead-alloy cooled fast reactors . Annals of Nuclear Energy. 72. p. 76-83.

Chen, Z., Zhao, P., Zhou, G., Chen, H.(2014). Study of core flow distribution for small modular natural circulation lead or lead-alloy cooled fast reactors . Annals of Nuclear Energy. 72. p. 76-83.

Zhou, Guangming, Chen, Zhao, Zhao, Pengcheng, Chen, Hongli(2014). Study of core flow distribution for small modular natural circulation lead or lead-alloy cooled fast reactors . Annals of Nuclear Energy. 72. p. 76-83.

PREPRINT

Guangming Zhou, Francisco Alberto Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Béla Kiss, Anoop Retheesh, Luis Maqueda, Jin Hun Park (2023). The European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the Conclusion of Pre-Concept Design Phase .

Guangming Zhou, Francisco Alberto Hernández, Pavel Pereslavtsev, Béla Kiss, Anoop Retheesh, Luis Maqueda, Jin Hun Park (2023). The European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the End of Pre-Concept Design Phase .

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The European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the Conclusion of Pre-Concept Design Phase .

The European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket: Design Status at the End of Pre-Concept Design Phase .