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The SALT Research Group

UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department

  • | Group
    • Raluca O. Scarlat
    • Michael Borrello
    • D. Nathanael Gardner
    • Tim Pickarski
    • David Park
    • Yusuf Shehata
  • | Publications
  • | Projects
    • ThorCon Corrosion Project
    • NEUP – High Temperature Molten Salt Reactor Pump Development
    • NEUP – IRP Molten Salt Reactor Test Bed with Neutron Irradiation
    • Speciation of Light Elements in Molten Salts
    • FUTURE EFRC
    • Graphite and Tritium Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts
  • I INGSM-24 Conference
  • | Beryllium Safety
  • | Courses
  • | News & Events
    • Haley Williams Nominated to Give Presentation at the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy
    • | Open House Nov. 2nd
    • | MS Round Robin 1.0
    • | Chemical Sensors Workshop 2020
    • | Molten Salt Bootcamp 2019
  • Raluca O. Scarlat
  • Michael Borrello
  • D. Nathanael Gardner
  • Tim Pickarski
  • David Park
  • Yusuf Shehata

Prof. Scarlat

Our group is strongly committed to serving the diversity and inclusion responsibilities that the university has because equal access to education is an essential element of democracy and because the university shapes the fabric of the culture and the values of future generations.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Raluca O. Scarlat
scarlat@berkeley.edu

Professor Raluca O. Scarlat is an Associate Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at University of California Berkeley. Prof. Scarlat’s research encompasses chemistry and materials for nuclear fusion and fission nuclear energy, as well as batteries, and critical minerals. Prof. Scarlat has expertise in electrochemistry and physical chemistry, corrosion, advanced nuclear reactors, reactor safety and thermal-hydraulics, and engineering ethics.

Scarlat CV 2 page 2023-02-17 | 2025-09 CV Scarlat | Bio 2025-09-16 Raluca Scarlat
Publications | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3302-1142

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS

Michael Borrello

Nathanael Gardner

Tim Pickarski

David Park

Yusuf Shehata

 
VISITING RESEARCHERS
Momoka Imoto
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

Patricia Moon (3rd), BS Chemistry

Agustina (Tina) Jolly (4th), BS Nuclear Engineering

Julia Gottlieb (4th), BS Nuclear Engineering

 

Sebastian Barnes

 
ALUMNI

Christian M. Sclafani

Engineer at KairosPower

Riccardo Chebac

 

Sara Mastromarino

Engineer at Kairos Power

L Vergari

Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


Niv Moran

Maximilien Denis

Maksim Pecherskiy

Engineer at X-Energy

Haley Williams

Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sasha Kennedy 

Scientist at TerraPower

Ryan Hayes

Nicole Johnson

Sarah Heagy

Engineer at X-Energy

Randall Chiu

Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California Berkeley

Sander Ratso

Senior Research Fellow at NICPB

Dana Hejazi

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Eric Smith

Akshar Bhagat

Daniel Chavez

Sean Noor

 

Zachary Falkowski

Sondre Iveland

Qiye Hu

   

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