Molten Salt Reactor Workshop at PSI - Designs, Diversity, Safety, Sustainability

In November 2015 Switzerland joined the GIF MSR activities and the upcoming 23rd GIF MSR PSSC meeting will be hosted by Paul Scherrer Insitute, the Swiss implementing agent. At this occasion an MSR workshop dedicated to the national projects of the GIF MSR partners will be held. It will include the country programs of China, EU, France, Russia, USA, and the motivation and foreseen project of Australia and Switzerland.

The day featured key presentations, including:

• "Welcome to the Molten Salt Reactor Workshop at PSI" by Andreas Pautz, Head of Nuclear Safety and Energy Division (NES), Paul Scherrer Institut
• "MSR provisional System steering Committee" by Jérôme Serp, France
• "Status and Perspective of TMSR in China" by Hongjie XU, TMSR Center of CAS, SINAP
• "U.S. MSR Development Programs & Supportive Efforts" by David Holcomb, GIF Molten Salt Reactor pSSC, US-Department of Energy Technical Lead for MSRs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• "The EU SAMOFAR project goals and contents" by Jan-Leen Kloosterman, EU
• "Introduction to ANSTO and contributions to GIF with focus on MSR Related Materials" by Lyndon Edwards, National Director, Australian GIF Research ANSTO, Australia
• "Concept of Molten Salt Fast Reactor" by Elsa MERLE, LPSC Grenoble (CNRS-IN2P3 / Grenoble INP – PHELMA / Grenoble Alpes University) and IPN Orsay (CNRS-IN2P3), France
• "Developing the Next Generation of Molten Salt Reactor Systems in Russian Federation" by Victor Ignatiev, National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute", Russia
• "Molten Salt Reactor Research in Switzerland" by Jiří Křepel, MSR project manager, Paul Scherrer Institut