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.

1. Introduction 2. Electricity production economics 3. Other MSR applications 4. Reactor physics 5. MSR kinetics and dynamics 6. Thermal hydraulics 7. Materials 8. Chemical processing of liquid fuel 9. Environment, Waste, and Resources 10. Safeguards and Nonproliferation 11. Liquid fuel, thermal neutron-spectrum reactors 12. Liquid fuel, fast and epithermal neutron spectrum reactors 13. Solid fuel reactors 14. Static liquid fuel reactors 15. Accelerator Driven Systems 16. Fusion-Fission hybrids 17. Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) 18. Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) 19. ThorCon Reactor 20. SAMOFAR 21. Stable Salt Fast Reactor 22. Transatomic Power 23. Copenhagen Atomics Waste Burner 24. Molten Salt Thermal Wasteburner 25. Dual Fluid Reactor 26. Research activities-Worldwide case studies 26. Unanswered Questions