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The SALT Research Group

UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department

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    • Raluca Scarlat
    • Sara Mastromarino
    • Niv Moran
    • Lorenzo Vergari
    • Haley Williams
    • Sasha Kennedy
    • Ryan Hayes
    • Christian M. Sclafani, MEng., B.S.E.
    • Michael Borrello
    • Nathanael Gardner
  • | 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
    • MS Round Robin 1.0
    • FUTURE EFRC
    • Graphite and Tritium Studies in Molten Fluoride Salts
  • | Courses
  • | Beryllium Safety
  • | News & Events
    • | Open House Nov. 5, 2021
    • | Chemical Sensors Workshop 2020
    • | Molten Salt Bootcamp 2019

FUTURE EFRC

Students Involved: Ryan Hayes, Haley Williams

The University of California, Berkeley has been working in a collaborative effort with University of Virginia, Bowling Green State University, North Carolina State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in order to advance our Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes. The research is conducted as an Energy Frontier Resource Center, funded by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences within the United States Department of Energy.

The goal of the institutions listed above are to better understand how the high radiation field, high temperatures, high stresses, and corrosive environment within a nuclear reactor couple together to affect the properties of materials within the reactor. Our group’s focus has been the investigation of molten salt’s chemical role in the corrosion of materials at high temperatures.

The home page for the effort can be found here.

Publications

Winner, N., Williams, H., Scarlat, R. O., & Asta, M. (2021). Ab-initio simulation studies of chromium solvation in molten fluoride salts. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 335, 116351.

EFRC Newsletter: Clean energy you don’t have to take with a grain of salt

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Engineering events

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      July 5, 2022

      Morrison Library Doe Library

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      July 9, 2022

      2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

      Recent advances in sequencing DNA have opened up new opportunities to use genetic data to improve our understanding of human history and evolution.

    • Dissertation Talk: Parallel Algorithms for De Novo Genome Assembly via Sparse Linear Algebra

      July 22, 2022

      306 Soda Hall

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