Education
Ph.D., Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2008
B.S., Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2003
Work Experience
11/2023-present, Deputy Head of Division of Reactor Safety, INET, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
02/2023-present, Tenured Associate Professor, Division of Reactor Safety, INET, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
06/2011-01/2023, Assistant Professor/Associate Professor, Division of Reactor Safety, INET, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
06/2009-05/2011, Postdoctor, Dept. of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
09/2008-05/2009, Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, USA
Social service
Teaching
Nuclear Safety and Radiation Safety
Radiation Dosimetry
Journal Reviewer
More than 20 international journals, including Journal of Nuclear Materials, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Fusion Science and Technology, Light: Science & Applications, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Power Engineering, Frontiers in Energy Research, Plasma Science and Technology, etc.
Service to Professional Associations
Selected items as follows:
Young committee member, Chinese Society of Particuology, 2025 -
Member of the Light Alloy Materials Professional Committee, Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2024 -
Editorial board member, International Journal of Radiation Medicine and Nuclear Medicine, 2024 -
Executive Member of Ionizing Radiation Metrology Branch, China Society of Radiation Protection, 2023 -
Associate editor, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023 -
Young editorial board member, Atomic Energy Science and Technology, 2023 -
Young editorial board member, Radiation Medicine and Protection, 2023 -
Young editorial board member, Nuclear Analysis, 2023 -
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Dr. Xie research interests mainly focus on the radiation safety of advanced nuclear energy systems, including reactor radiation safety, behavior of fission products, advanced reactor design and intersections with atomic and molecular physics.
Reactor Radiation Safety
Source terms study of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) and other types of reactors, including experimental measurement and theoretical calculations of fission products, activation products, tritium, carbon-14, and radioactive dust
Behavior of Fission Products
Generation, distribution and release of fission products in nuclear energy systems, interactions between radionuclides and materials, migration and diffusion behaviors of radionuclides in environment, especially focusing on tritium source term and behavior in advanced nuclear energy systems and environment
Advanced Reactor Design
Engineering design of radiation monitoring system in advanced reactors, especially establishing the monitoring and sampling methods for gas fission products, radioactive dust and tritium in the HTGR, source term analysis of the nuclear heating reactor (NHR) and high flux reactor (HFR)
Intersections with Atomic and Molecular Physics
Chemical states and reaction kinetics of nuclides in multicomponent and multiphase systems, fine and hyperfine structure analysis of nuclides, application of precision measurement technique in microwave electric field
Research Status
Recent research projects include:
2024-2027, Research on key scientific issues of gas fission nuclide source terms in pebble-bed modular type high temperature gas-cooled reactors, National Natural Science Foundation
2022-2025, Study on the generation mechanism and transport behavior of the radioactive dust based on the 10MW high temperature gas-cooled experimental reactor, Key project of Nuclear Technology Innovation Joint Fund of National Natural Science Foundation
2017-2022, Research on quantum benchmark ultra high resolution microwave measurement, "Young Scientist" project of National Key Research and Development Program
2012-2022, High temperature gas cooled reactor nuclear power plant demonstration project ?design of process radiation monitoring and radioactive effluent monitoring system, National Science and Technology Major Project
2016-2019, The experimental study of the adsorption and deposition behavior of solid fission products, National Natural Science Foundation
2011-2013, Application of spatially resolved spectroscopy in low temperature plasma, Youth project of National Natural Science Foundation
Honors and Awards
Selected items as follows:
2022, Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China
2021, Young Sci. & Tech. Innovation "Elite Talent" of China National Nuclear Corporation
2020, Source term measurement method and experimental system of irradiated graphite spheres in HTR-10, First Class Award of the 16th Experimental Technical Achievements of Tsinghua Univ.
2018, Tritium and carbon-14 sampling measurement experimental system in the primary circuit of HTR-10, Second Class Award of the 15th Experimental Technical Achievements of Tsinghua Univ.
2016, Radioactive dust experimental system in the primary circuit of HTR-10, First Class Award of the 14th Experimental Technical Achievements of Tsinghua Univ.
Selected Academic Achievement
Dr. Xie has published more than 150 papers (> 90 indexed by SCI) in the academic journals of Carbon, Radiocarbon, Journal of Nuclear Materials, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Nuclear Engineering and Design, etc., and authorized 15 invention patents. Five representative articles are as follows:
[1] R. Nie, Y. Wang, Z. Zhou, F. Xie*, et al., Minimum Detectable Activity Concentration of Online Monitoring Instrument in Primary Circuit of HTR-PM Based on Monte Carlo Simulation, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 57, 103122 (1-9), 2025.
[2] Z. Zhou, R. Nie, Y. Wang, J. Guo, L. Wei, F. Xie*, et al., Tritium Storage and Release Mechanism in Nuclear Graphite using First-principles Combined Thermal Desorption Theory, Carbon, 223, 119012 (1-10), 2024.
[3] F. Xie, W. Peng, J. Cao, et al., Experimental Investigation of 14C in the Primary Coolant of the 10 MW High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor, Radiocarbon, 61 (3), 867-884, 2019.
[4] F. Xie, J. Cao, X. Feng, et al., Experimental Research on the Radioactive Dust in the Primary Loop of HTR-10, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 324, 372-378, 2017.
[5] F. Xie, V. B. Sovkov, A. M. Lyyra*, et al., Experimental Investigation of the Cs2 a3Su+ Triplet Ground State: Multiparameter Morse Long Range Potential Analysis and Molecular Constants, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 130, 051102 (1-4), 2009.
Last updated: 2025-2-15
