Providing a fundamental understanding of molten salt bulk and interfacial chemistry underpinning molten salt nuclear reactor technology
MSEE Leadership
James Wishart
MSEE Director
Brookhaven National Laboratorywishart@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 Laboratorymahurinsm@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 Iowaclaudio-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 LaboratoryRuchi.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 LaboratoryKaren.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 Laboratorygregory.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.
Brookhaven National Laboratory is honored to have been selected as the lead institution of an Energy Frontier Research Center to investigate Molten Salts in Extreme Environments, along with our partners Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Notre Dame.
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Upton, NY 11973-5000
