Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy: A volume in Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
Book, 2024

Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, Second Edition is a fully updated comprehensive reference on the latest advances in MSR research and technology. Building on the successful first edition, Tom Dolan and the team of experts have fully updated the content to reflect the impressive advances from the last 5 years, ensuring this book continues to be the go-to reference on the topic. This new edition covers progress made in MSR design, details innovative experiments, and includes molten salt data, corrosion studies and deployment plans. The successful case studies section of the first edition have been removed, expanded, and fully updated, and are now published in a companion title called Global Case Studies on Molten Salt Reactors. Readers will gain a deep understanding of the advantages and challenges of MSR development and thorium fuel use, as well as step-by-step guidance on the latest in MSR reactor design. Each chapter provides a clear introduction, covers technical issues and includes examples and conclusions, while promoting the sustainability benefits throughout.

Author

Thomas James Dolan

University of Illinois

Imre Pazsit

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Andrei Rykhlevskii

Argonne National Laboratory

Ritsuo Yoshioka

International Thorium Molten-Salt Forum (ITMSF)

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Subatomic Physics

DOI

10.1016/C2021-0-01689-8

ISBN

9780323993555

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Latest update

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