Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy
- 2nd Edition - January 24, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Thomas James Dolan, Imre Pazsit, Andrei Rykhlevskii, Ritsuo Yoshioka
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 3 5 5 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 3 5 6 - 2
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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Request a sales quoteMolten 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.
- 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
Scientists and engineers involved in MSR research, university faculty and students, analysts and policy makers, A2 nuclear energy professionals, nuclear physicists, Government staff
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
- Edition: 2
- Published: January 24, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 1066
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323993555
- eBook ISBN: 9780323993562
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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, USAIP
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, SwedenAR
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 AmericaRY
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, JapanRead Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy on ScienceDirect