Molten Salts in Extreme Environments (MSEE)
Director
James Wishart
Lead Institution
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Class
2018-2022
Mission
To provide a fundamental understanding of molten salt bulk and interfacial chemistry that will underpin molten salt reactor technology.
Research Topics
extreme environments, nuclear, defects, corrosion
Systems Studied
Systems: metal, actinide, electrolytes, ionic liquid
Interfaces: inorganic/inorganic, gas/liquid, liquid/solid
Nanostructured: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, neutron diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), monte carlo (MC), mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling, machine learning
Partner Institutions
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Stony Brook University
- University of Iowa
- University of Notre Dame
