Fission papers, talks, proceedings and links
Ralph’s History with Edward
A description of the molten salt reactor on the thorium-uranium-233 cycle, from Reactor
Physics and LPSC (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie), Grenoble (2001)
Hoglund’s home page, info and papers on molten salt reactors
Thorium fueled underground power plant based on molten salt technology, Ralph Moir
and Edward Teller, Nuclear Technology 151 334-339 (2005)
C/C – SiC composites-white paper, Per Peterson (2003)
Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) Proposal 2002, Deep-Burn Molten-Salt Reactors,
Moir et al
Cost of electricity from Molten Salt Reactors (MSR), Moir, Nuclear Technology 138 93-95 (2002)
Talk recommendations for a restart of molten salt reactor development Presentation to the
ICENES 2007, 13th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems,
3-8 June, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
Recommendations for a restart of molten salt reactor development,, Moir, Energy Conversion & Management, 49 (2008) 1849-1858
Talk at at Oct. 19, 20, 2009 First Thorium Energy Alliance meeting, https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=tJeNDrDT08E
Furukawa et al. ICENES 2007, Energy Conversion & Management, 49 (2008) 1832-1848
Jets and droplets compared to a moving slab of liquid for divertor cooling for a tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor, (2008), R. Moir,
Vallecitos Molten Salt Research Report No. 1, 51 pages
David LeBlanc’s Too good to leave on the shelf, Mechanical Engineering, May 2010
Liquid fluoride thorium reactors, (2010), Hargraves and Moir, American Scientist, 98, July-August, 10 pages
Thinking nuclear? Think thorium. (2010), Kirk Sorensen. Machine Design, March 16
U232 nonproliferation features, (June 25, 2010) R. W. Moir. Vallecitos Molten Salt Research, Report No. 2, 17 pages
Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors, (January 2011) Robert Hargraves and Ralph Moir. APS Physics Forum on Physics & Society, Volume 40, Number 1
Nonproliferation role of 231Pa and 232U in a Molten Salt Reactor on the Th-233U fuel cycle, (July 16, 2014). Rev 1 (September 9, 2014). R.W. Moir. Vallecitos Molten Salt Research, Report No. 6, 13 pages
Talk,
(May 29, 2014) TEAC 6 meeting, Chicago.
Suggested research topics for molten salt reactors
Links to other websites for molten salt reactors
ThorCon – the Flex Fuel Do-able Molten Salt Reactor
Energy From Thorium including ORNL Document Repository
Bruce Hoglund’s Molten Salt Interests Home Page
International Thorium Molten-Salt Forum