Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy

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. 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. 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. 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