Kirk Sorensen
President and Chief Technologist at Flibe Energy
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Kirk Sorensen founded Flibe Energy in 2011 and leads its reactor development efforts. Sorensen previously worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Teledyne Brown Engineering, and has advocated for molten-salt reactor technology.
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OCT
27
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OCT
29
THU
The workshop covers molten salt reactor (MSR) advancements, development programs, international collaborations, and demonstration efforts. Program themes include MSR roadmaps covering properties, off-gas, and safeguards; fuel salt supply and specifications; building the nuclear ecosystem; and updates on MSR development. Technical sessions address communicating MSRs, irradiation testing of salts and alloys, transportation considerations, molten salt processing, nitrate-salt heat storage, gas turbines, and tritium control. Parallel breakouts cover thermal-property characterization of molten salts and modeling for MSR development and analysis, including SCALE, Thermochimica with MSD-TC, MELCOR, and OpenPronghorn. The program also includes developer forums, lightning talks, a poster session, and an ORNL hot cells and graphite reactor tour.