Leadership

James Wishart

MSEE Director
Brookhaven National Laboratory

wishart@bnl.gov

(631) 344-4327

Conducting pulse radiolysis kinetics measurements of reactions in molten salts, including the yields of primary radiolytic transients and their reactions with metal ion solutes, reactions between intermediate product species and the kinetics and redox energetics of nanoparticle formation

Shannon Mahurin

MSEE Deputy Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

mahurinsm@ornl.gov

(865) 241-3417

Using spectroscopy, neutron and x-ray scattering to understand bulk molten salt structure, with a specific emphasis on pair distribution function analysis to examine intermediate and long-range order.

Claudio J. Margulis

Leader, Thrust 1
University of Iowa

claudio-margulis@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-0615

Conducting classical and quantum molecular dynamics calculations with the objective of computing X-ray scattering spectra of molten salts, reactivity of excess charges, and calculations to describe the structure and dynamics of molten salts at interfaces.

Ruchi Gakhar

Leader, Thrust 2
Idaho National Laboratory

Ruchi.Gakhar@inl.gov

Preparing and characterizing molten salt systems containing transition metals, lanthanides and actinides, and applying structural (X-ray) and spectroscopic (X-ray, UV-Vis and Raman) techniques to deduce metal ion speciation.

Karen Chen-Wiegart

Leader, Thrust 3
Stony Brook University,
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Karen.Chen-Wiegart@stonybrook.edu

(631) 632-4537

Understanding the interaction between molten salts and metallic materials, including the effects of impurities on corrosion phenomena with synchrotron X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy.

Gregory P. Holmbeck

Leader, Radiation Crosscut
Idaho National Laboratory

gregory.holmbeck@inl.gov

Conducting steady-state molten salt radiation chemistry experiments with and without the presence of actinide elements at INL and handling the manipulations for actinide-molten salt pulse radiolysis experiments at BNL's LEAF facility.