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Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy

  • 2nd Edition - January 24, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Thomas James Dolan, Imre Pazsit, Andrei Rykhlevskii, Ritsuo Yoshioka
  • Language: English

Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, Second Edition is a fully updated comprehensive reference on the latest advances in MSR research and technology. Building on the successfu… Read more

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Description

Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, Second Edition is a fully updated comprehensive reference on the latest advances in MSR research and technology. Building on the successful first edition, Tom Dolan and the team of experts have fully updated the content to reflect the impressive advances from the last 5 years, ensuring this book continues to be the go-to reference on the topic. This new edition covers progress made in MSR design, details innovative experiments, and includes molten salt data, corrosion studies and deployment plans. The successful case studies section of the first edition have been removed, expanded, and fully updated, and are now published in a companion title called Global Case Studies on Molten Salt Reactors.

Readers will gain a deep understanding of the advantages and challenges of MSR development and thorium fuel use, as well as step-by-step guidance on the latest in MSR reactor design. Each chapter provides a clear introduction, covers technical issues and includes examples and conclusions, while promoting the sustainability benefits throughout.

Key features

  • A fully updated comprehensive handbook on Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, written by a team of global experts
  • Covers MSR applications, technical issues, reactor types and reactor designs
  • Includes 3 brand new chapters which reflect the latest advances in research and technology since the first edition published
    • Presents case studies on molten salt reactors which aid in the transition to net zero by providing abundant clean, safe energy to complement wind and solar powe

    Readership

    Scientists and engineers involved in MSR research, university faculty and students, analysts and policy makers, A2 nuclear energy professionals, nuclear physicists, Government staff

    Table of contents

    Applications

    1. Introduction　
    Thomas J. Dolan

    2. Electric Power Generation
    Lindsay Ross Dempsey and Charles Forsberg

    3. Other Applications
    Stephen Boyd and Christopher Taylor

    Technical Issues

    4. MSR Reactor physics: characterization, neutronic performance, multiphysics coupling, and reduced-order modeling
    Jiri Krepel and Jean C. Ragusa

    5. Kinetics, dynamics and neutron noise in stationary MSRs
    Imre Pazsit and Victor Dykin

    6. Thermal hydraulics of liquid-fueled MSR
    Lelio Luzzi and Antonio Cammi

    7. Materials
    Ritsuo Yoshioka

    8. Physical-chemical properties of molten salts and Chemical technology of MSR fuel cycle
    Stephen Boyd, Jan Uhlíř and Christopher Taylor

    9. Environment, waste, and resources　
    Ritsuo Yoshioka

    10. Nonproliferation and safeguards　
    Anna Erickson

    Reactor Types

    11. Liquid fuel, thermal neutron spectrum reactors
    Ritsuo Yoshioka

    12. Fast-spectrum, liquid-fueled reactors　
    Andrey A. Lizin

    13. Solid fuel, salt-cooled reactors
    Raluca Scarlat

    14. Static liquid fuel reactors
    Ian Richard Scott

    15. Accelerator-driven systems
    Toshinobu Sasa

    16. Fusion_fission hybrids
    Evgeniy pavel Velikhov Sr.

    Reactor Designs

    17. Thorium molten salt reactor nuclear energy system (TMSR)　
    Zhimin Dai

    18. Integral molten salt reactor
    David LeBlanc

    19. ThorCon reactor
    Lars Jorgensen and Robert Hargraves

    20. Severe Accident Modeling and Safety Assessment for Fluid-fuel Energy Reactors (SAMOSAFER) 565
    Jan L. Kloosterman

    21. Stable salt fast reactor
    Ian Richard Scott

    22. EXODYS Molten Chloride Fast Reactor
    Ed Pheil

    23. Copenhagen Atomics waste burner
    Thomas Jam Pedersen

    24. Seaborg Technologies ApS - Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR) Power Barge
    Esben Klinkby

    25. Dual-fluid reactor
    Armin Huke and Nico Bernt

    26. Kairos Power Pebble Bed Reactor
    Andrei Rykhlevskii

    27. TerraPower Fast Chloride Reactor
    Jiri Krepel

    28. Conclusions　
    Thomas J. Dolan

    Product details

    • Edition: 2
    • Latest edition
    • Published: January 25, 2024
    • Language: English

    About the editors

    TD

    Thomas James Dolan

    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.
    Affiliations and expertise
    Adjunct Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Department, University of Illinois, USA

    IP

    Imre Pazsit

    Imre Pázsit 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.
    Affiliations and expertise
    Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Göteborg, Sweden

    AR

    Andrei Rykhlevskii

    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.
    Affiliations and expertise
    Postdoctoral Appointee, Research and Test Reactors Department, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States of America

    RY

    Ritsuo Yoshioka

    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
    Affiliations and expertise
    Ritsuo Yoshioka Owner, Japan Functional Safety Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan

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