Dr. Robert Kile is an advanced reactor research and development engineer at Idaho National Laboratory in the Advanced Reactor Technology and Design department. Dr. Kile’s work is primarily focused on thermal hydraulics of high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, though his interests also include fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors. Dr. Kile’s expertise also includes neutronics modeling of both gas- and salt-cooled reactors including an interest in pebble bed reactor equilibrium modeling. Dr. Kile’s areas of interest are in code validation, code-to-code comparison, and transient analysis of advanced reactors.

 Dr. Kile serves as the coordinator of the Depressurized Conduction Cooldown problem for the OECD-NEA Thermal Hydraulic Code Validation Benchmark for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors using HTTF Data.