Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy

Professor Dolan has worked on nuclear technology and international relations issues for three universities, five national laboratories and in nine countries, including in his position as Physics Section Head for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Dolan's primary research interests are concerned with molten salt fission reactors and nuclear fusion technology.

He developed three courses at the University of Missouri-Rolla on fusion research principles, fusion experiments, and fusion technology. As well as the numerous academic positions he has held, he also has experience working in industry (Phillips Petroleum Company) on fusion research and other nuclear topics. As Head of the Physics Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) he helped facilitate international cooperation in fusion research, including organization of the semi-annual IAEA Fusion Energy Conferences. Since then he has taught courses on fusion research at the University of Illinois, in China, and in India. Imre Pzsit has been working with the theory and application of stochastic particle processes for several decades both at an academic level and with concrete applications to existing power plants in Sweden and elsewhere. He is internationally recognised for his contributions in reactor diagnostics with neutron noise methods. He is also a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Andrei Rykhlevskii is Postdoctoral Appointee in Research & Test Reactors Department at the Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD and MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BS from Bauman Moscow Technical University (Russia). He was previously a nuclear reactor analyst in ROSATOM (Russia).
In nuclear fuel cycle research, he worked on neutronics performance and fuel depletion analysis of various Molten Salt Reactors. His main research interests are nuclear fuel cycle optimization and advanced nuclear reactor modeling. Ritsuo Yoshioka is an Emeritus President of the International Thorium Molten-Salt Forum, which is organizing MSR researchers in the world and promoting MSR. He had various experience on BWR design and licensing for 30 years and has been studying MSR since 1993. He also contributed to system safety projects for wide industry area from 1998 to 2010. He also worked as an occasional consultant for IAEA on fuel cycle area since 1991.
He published more than 100 papers or articles on BWR and MSR core design and system safety, besides system safety for wide industries.
His current research interest is MSR design and development

Applications 1. Introduction 2. Electric Power Generation 3. Other Applications

Technical Issues 4. MSR Reactor physics: characterization, neutronic performance, multiphysics coupling, and reduced-order modeling 5. Kinetics, dynamics and neutron noise in stationary MSRs 6. Thermal hydraulics of liquid-fueled MSR 7. Materials 8. Physical-chemical properties of molten salts and Chemical technology of MSR fuel cycle 9. Environment, waste, and resources 10. Nonproliferation and safeguards

Reactor Types 11. Liquid fuel, thermal neutron spectrum reactors 12. Fast-spectrum, liquid-fueled reactors 13. Solid fuel, salt-cooled reactors 14. Static liquid fuel reactors 15. Accelerator-driven systems 16. Fusion_fission hybrids

Reactor Designs 17. Thorium molten salt reactor nuclear energy system (TMSR) 18. Integral molten salt reactor 19. ThorCon reactor 20. Severe Accident Modeling and Safety Assessment for Fluid-fuel Energy Reactors (SAMOSAFER) 565 21. Stable salt fast reactor 22. EXODYS Molten Chloride Fast Reactor 23. Copenhagen Atomics waste burner 24. Seaborg Technologies ApS - Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR) Power Barge 25. Dual-fluid reactor 26. Kairos Power Pebble Bed Reactor 27. TerraPower Fast Chloride Reactor 28. Conclusions