2026 Molten Salt Reactor Workshop Agenda
| Date | Time | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Oct 26th | 12:00pm | Tour Check-in (Participants must have registered for the tour in advance) | Location: Atrium Lobby (Lower Ground Level) |
| Monday, Oct. 26th | 1:00p - 5:00p | Optional Tours: Kairos Power's Oak Ridge Reactor Demonstration Campus ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 7:30a - 8:00a | Registration | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 8:00a - 8:20a | Call to Order/Welcome | Kevin Robb, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 8:20a - 9:50a | MSR Roadmap Updates Working Breakfast | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 9:50a - 10:05a | Break | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 10:05a - 11:05a | Building Nuclear Ecosystem | David Pointer, ORNL |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 11:05a - 11:50a | MSR Development Updates | Lauren Lathem, Southern Company; Chang Hwa Lee, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 11:50a - 1:10p | Working Lunch | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 1:10p - 1:45p | Lightning Talks | Hunter Andrews, ORNL |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 1:45p - 3:15p | Salt Supply, Specification, and Fuel Salt | Toni Karlsson, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 3:15p - 3:30p | Break | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 3:30p - 4:55p | MSR Developer 1 | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 27th | 4:55p - 5:00p | Closing Remarks/Adjourn | |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 7:30am - 8:00am | Registration | |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 8:00a - 8:10a | Call to Order | Kevin Robb, ORNL |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 8:10a - 9:45a | Transportation Considerations for MSRs Working Breakfast | Oscar Martinez, ORNL |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 9:45a - 10:00a | Break | |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 10:00a - 11:35a | Irradiation Testing of Salts and Alloys | Tony Birri, ORNL; Konstantin Kottrup, Nuclear Research Consultancy Group (NRG) PALLAS; Matthew Arrowood, INL; Calvin Downey, INL; Anne Campbell, ORNL; Kenneth Cooper, ORNL; David Carpenter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 11:35a - 12:50p | Working Lunch | |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 12:50p - 1:30p | Lightning Talks | Richard Reed, ORNL |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 1:30p - 2:15p | Communicating MSRs | Laura Scheele, ORNL |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 2:15p - 2:40p | PRO-AR&FC | Sunil Chirayath, ORNL |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 2:40p - 2:55p | Break | |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 2:55p - 4:30p | MSR Developer 2 | Kevin Robb, ORNL |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 4:30p - 6:30p | Poster Session Working Dinner | |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28th | 6:30p | Adjourn | |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 7:30a - 8:00a | Registration | |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 8:00a - 8:10a | Call to Order | Kevin Robb, ORNL |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 8:10a - 9:25a | Molten Salt Processing Working Breakfast | Joanna McFarlane, ORNL; Patricia Paviet, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); Craig Stover, Dominion Engineering; Jonathan Evarts, PNNL; Richard Mayes, ORNL |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 9:25a - 9:50a | Maximizing Revenue: Salt Reactors with Nitrate Salt Heat Storage, Gas Turbine and Tritium Control | Charles Forsberg, MIT |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 9:50a - 10:05a | Break | |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 10:05a - 11:40a | MSR Developer 3 | Kevin Robb, ORNL |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 11:40a - 11:55a | Poster Awards & Acknowledgements | Richard Reed, ORNL; Kevin Robb, ORNL |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 11:55a - 1:10p | Working Lunch | |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 1:10p - 1:20p | Transition to Parallel Breakouts | |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 1:20p - 4:30p | Breakout 1: Thermal Property Characterization of Molten Salts | Tony Birri, ORNL; Juliano Shorne-Pinto, University of South Carolina; Ted Besmann, University of South Carolina; Troy Munro, Brigham Young University; Kyle Makovsky, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); Gaoxue Wang, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Melissa Rose, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Stephen Lam, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Vanda Glezakou, ORNL |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 1:20p - 4:30p | Breakout 2: Modeling for MSR Development and Analysis | Matthew Christian, Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 1:20p - 5:30p | Breakout 3: ORNL Hot Cells and Graphite Reactor Tour (Participants must have registered for the tour in advance) | Location: Atrium Lobby (Lower Ground Level) |
| Thursday, Oct. 29th | 4:30p | Adjourn |