2025 Annual Review: Molten Salt Reactors

May 28, 2025

Opening remarks, NEAMS Overview, and Research Plan

David Henderson, DOE & David Andersson, LANL

Technical Area: Multiphysics Applications

Introduction to Multiphysics Applications Technical Area

Emily Shemon, ANL & Cody Permann, INL

Multiphysics analysis of MSR transient and validation using MSRE

Mauricio Tano, INL

MSR speciestransport multiphysicssimulation and applications

Tingzhou Fei, ANL & Shayan Shahbazi, ANL

MSR depletion and future MSR work

Eva Davidson, ORNL

Technical Area: Reactor Physics

Introduction to Reactor Physics Technical Area

Matthew Jessee, ORNL

Overview of Griffin R&D activities for MSR systems

Changho Lee, ANL

Application of Griffin for CNRS benchmark

Namjae Choi, INL

Technical Area: Thermal Fluids

Introduction to Thermal Fluids Technical Area

Elia Merzari, ANL & Rui Hu, ANL

Enhancement on species transport modeling in SAM and coupling to Saline and Mole

Bob Salko, ORNL

Improvements in Pronghorn for MSR modeling, including overlapping domain coupling with SAM for multiscale modeling

Mauricio Tano, INL

Technical Area: Structural Materials and Chemistry

Introduction to Structural Materials and Chemistry Technical Area

Benjamin Spencer, INL & Ted Besmann, USC

Summary of high-temperature alloy and graphite efforts

Benjamin Spencer, INL

MSTDB-TP and MSTDB-TC development

Tony Birri, ORNL

Ab-initio molten machine-learning molten salt property modeling

Gaoxue Wang, LANL

Thermochimica Transport Coupling for Offgas Composition Estimation

Will Gurecky, ORNL

Pronghorn/Thermochimica integration for full-core MSR simulations

Mauricio Tano, INL

MOSCATO development and integration

Nathan Hoyt, ANL