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The SALT Research Group

UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department

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    • Raluca O. Scarlat
    • Haley Williams
    • Ryan Hayes
    • Alexandra (Sasha) Kennedy
    • Michael Borrello
    • D. Nathanael Gardner
    • Nicole Johnson
    • Sarah Heagy
    • Tim Pickarski
  • | 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
  • 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

News and Events

Ryan Hayes’ New Paper

August 26, 2024 by Nathanael Gardner

Filed Under: Team Members

Haley Williams Nominated to Give Presentation at the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy

January 26, 2024 by Nathanael Gardner

Haley Williams was nominated to give a presentation on “Fluoroacidity and temperature effects on the speciation of chromium in molten fluoride salts,” at the Nuclear Energy Agency’s 2023 Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy at MIT. As stated on their website, The goals and objectives of the Global Forum are to: Identify […]

Filed Under: Team Members

Journal article by L. Vergari awarded 2020 Best Paper in Material Chemistry by UC Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering Department

January 1, 2021 by Vergari

The review article “Thermodynamics of hydrogen in graphite at high temperature and the effects of oxidation, irradiation and isotopics” by L. Vergari and R. O. Scarlat, published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials, has been selected as the Best Paper in Material Chemistry in 2020 by the Nuclear Engineering Department at UC Berkeley.   The […]

Filed Under: New Publications

L. Vergari awarded Young Researcher Award at the APSOT-3 Conference

November 13, 2020 by SALT

L. Vergari has been awarded the Young Researcher Award at the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Tritium Science (APSOT-3), organized by the University of Toyama, Japan. In the talk, Vergari reviewed the high-temperature interaction between graphite and hydrogen isotopes and their relevance to tritium management in nuclear reactors.

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Lorenzo Vergari

NuMat 2020 features two posters from SALT

November 13, 2020 by Vergari

S. Mastromarino and L. Vergari have presented two posters at the Nuclear Materials Conference (NuMat) 2020. Mastromarino’s poster is entitled “Measurements and Uncertainty Quantification for the Density and Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Molten 2LiF-BeF2 (FLiBe)” and is co-authored by R. Vidrio and Dr. R. Scarlat. Vergari has presented a poster named “Chemical modifications of […]

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Lorenzo Vergari, Sara Mastromarino

The SALT research group welcomes the new class of PhD students

August 18, 2020 by SALT

McLaughlin Hall

Our group is excited to welcome to Berkeley its newest members, first year PhD students Sasha Kennedy, Malachi Nelson and Ryan Hayes. Looking forward to working together! Go Bears!

Filed Under: Team Members Tagged With: Michael Borrello, Nathanael David Gardner

SALT goes to ACS San Francisco … remotely

June 22, 2020 by Vergari

We will present some of our most recent and exciting research at the American Chemical Society Fall 2020 National Meeting, held August 17-20. Williams will deliver a presentation on the quantification and chemical characterization of oxide-containing species in molten halide salts. Mastromarino will discuss digestion systems for elemental analysis of fluoride salts. Vergari will give […]

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Haley Williams, Lorenzo Vergari, Sara Mastromarino

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