Molten Salt Reactor Workshop 2026

Date

October 27

Format

In-Person

Location

Knoxville, TN

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The 12th annual workshop convenes government, academia, and industry experts to discuss molten salt reactor advancements, development programs, international collaborations, and demonstration efforts. Program themes include MSR roadmaps covering properties, off-gas, safeguards, and overall development; building the nuclear ecosystem; MSR development updates; salt supply, specification, and fuel salt; developer forums; communication; irradiation testing of salts and alloys; transportation considerations; molten salt processing; nitrate-salt heat storage, gas turbines, and tritium control; thermal property characterization; modeling for MSR development and analysis; and ORNL hot-cell and graphite-reactor tours. A poster session and lightning talks are also included.

Speakers(40)

Joe Hoagland

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Kevin Robb

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Ted Besmann

University of South Carolina (USC)

Hunter Andrews

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Thomas DeGuire

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

David Pointer

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Michelle Goodson

ORAU Stem Accelerator

Nick Brown

University of Tennessee

Chris Whaley

Roane State Community College

Lauren Lathem

Southern Company

Chang Hwa Lee

Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute

Toni Karlsson

Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Hannah Patenaude

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Laura Scheele

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Sunil Chirayath

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Tony Birri

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Konstantin Kottrup

Nuclear Research Consultancy Group (NRG) PALLAS

Matthew Arrowood

Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Calvin Downey

Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Anne Campbell

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Kenneth Cooper

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

David Carpenter

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard Reed

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Oscar Martinez

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Paul Cantonwine

Center for Used Fuel Research

Mike McMahon

NAC International

Joanna McFarlane

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Patricia Paviet

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Craig Stover

Dominion Engineering

Jonathan Evarts

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Richard Mayes

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Charles Forsberg

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Juliano Shorne-Pinto

University of South Carolina (USC)

Troy Munro

Brigham Young University

Kyle Makovsky

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Gaoxue Wang

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Melissa Rose

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Stephen Lam

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Vanda Glezakou

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Matthew Christian

Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)

Topics

Energy
Engineering
Technology

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