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
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 Uhlír 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
