Savely Moiseevich Feinberg ( rus, Саве́лий Моисе́евич Фе́йнберг; 24 December 1910 – 20 October 1973) was a Soviet
nuclear physicist
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Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...
who is known for his contribution to design and development of
VVER
The water-water energetic reactor (WWER), or VVER (from russian: водо-водяной энергетический реактор; transliterates as ; ''water-water power reactor'') is a series of pressurized water reactor designs originally de ...
nuclear reactors .
Biography
Feinberg was born on December 24, 1910, in
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
and attended the
Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute
Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU; az, Azərbaycan Texniki Universiteti) is a public university, specialized in Institute of technology, engineering, located in Baku, Azerbaijan. The University has 9 schools and 54 departments, 884 faculty mem ...
. he is Cousin of
Evgenii Feinberg
Evgenii L'vovich Feinberg (27 June 1912 – 10 December 2005) was a Soviet physicist, recognized for his contributions to theoretical physics.
He was the son of a physician, born in Baku, moving to Moscow in 1918 where he graduated from Moscow St ...
. In 1932 he graduated specializing in engineer-architect. He obtained his master's degree in 1934. between the period from 1934 to 1942, he worked at the Azneftproekt Institute. In 1942, he worked on the construction of an aircraft factory in Baku. In 1942-1943 he taught at the Higher Naval School (Baku). In 1944, he was seriously injured during the bombing in
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...
. In 1944-1945 he worked as a Structural engineer - the head of the strength group at the
Gromov Flight Research Institute
The Gromov Flight Research Institute or GFRI for short (russian: link=no, Лётно-исследовательский институт имени М. М. Громова, russian: link=no, ЛИИ) is an important Russian State Researc ...
. Since 1945, he worked at the
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics. From 1946 until his death he worked in Laboratory No. 2 of the USSR Academy of Science(now
Kurchatov Institute
The Kurchatov Institute (russian: Национальный исследовательский центр «Курчатовский Институт», 'National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute) is Russia's leading research and developmen ...
) as senior research fellow, head of the theoretical sector, deputy head of department of the institute. from 1947, he taught as a professor at the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of Nuclear Reactors of
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) (russian: Национальный исследовательский ядерный университет "МИФИ" / НИЯУ МИФИ or ) is a technical un ...
. He died in 1973 and was buried in the Necropolis of
Novodevichy Convent
Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery (russian: Новоде́вичий монасты́рь, Богоро́дице-Смоле́нский монасты́рь), is probably the best-known clois ...
.
Contributions
The magistral ideas of Feinberg used in the developments of nuclear reactors can not be neglected. In 1958, he proposed the concept of
Traveling wave reactor
A traveling-wave reactor (TWR) is a proposed type of nuclear fission reactor that can convert fertile material into usable fuel through nuclear transmutation, in tandem with the burnup of fissile material. TWRs differ from other kinds of fast- ...
which is the nuclear reactor that could breed fuel within its core and he called it who called it a "breed-and-burn" reactor.
The Feinberg-Galanin method has been used for the calculation of the thermal utilization and thermal-flux fine structure of cluster-type fuel elements in liquid-moderated reactors such as
light water reactors
The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator; furthermore a solid form of fissile elements is used as fuel. Thermal-neutron reac ...
.
Books
* CM. Feinberg, S.B. Shikhov. Theory of Nuclear Reactors, T.1, Elementary Theory of Reactors. - M .: Atomizdat, 1978.
References
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1910 births
1973 deaths
Soviet physicists
Nuclear physicists