Agenda – Graphite – Molten Salt Interactions Workshop

Agenda

Final Agenda as of 7/14/2022

Day 1 – Wednesday, July 20th, 2022

Please note, all times listed are in Eastern Date Time (EDT)

Time	Event	Lead	Location
9:00 – 9:15 am	Welcome Introductory Remarks	Dr. Nidia Gallego - ORNL Dr. Patricia Paviet – PNNL and National Technical Director (NTD) – MSR Program Dr. Brian Robinson – DOE-NE	ZOOM
9:15 – 9:40 am	Regulatory Perspective	Alex Chereskin - NRC	ZOOM
9:40 – 10:05 am	ASME Code and NMD Committee	Will Windes – INL Josina Geringer - ORNL	ZOOM
10:05 – 10:20 am	Break
Vendor’s Perspective – Moderators: Lorenzo Vergari and Raluca Scarlat Reactor design, where is graphite used, operating conditions, temperature, pressure, flow velocities, salt chemistry – set boundary conditions without revealing proprietary data, what research activities are being conducted, any modeling, performance, degradation.
10:20 – 12:00 pm (20 minutes each)	Kurt Harris – FliBe Energy, Inc. Gabriel Meric & Chen Chong – Kairos Power David Leblanc – Terrestrial Energy Guy Anderson – Moltex Energy Dane Wilson – ThorCon US			ZOOM
12:00–1:00 pm	Group Discussion & Q/A	All	ZOOM
1:00 pm	Adjourn

Day 2 – Thursday, July 21, 2022

Please note, all times listed are in Eastern Date Time (EDT)

Time	Event	Lead	Location
9:00 – 9:05 am	Welcome	Nidia Gallego	ZOOM
9:05 – 9:30 am	The SINAP Experience	Derek Tsang - SINAP	ZOOM
9:30 – 11:30 am (15-20 minutes each)	Research Activities – Moderator: Mark Joyce Nidia Gallego – ORNL Raluca Scarlat – UC at Berkely Abbie Jones – Manchester University Tjark van Staveren (NRG) – Irradiation of graphite and fuel salts David Carpenter – MIT Preet Singh – Georgia Tech		ZOOM
11:30 – 12:10 pm (20 minutes each)	Modeling Efforts – Moderator: Tjark van Staveren Structural assessment Modeling - Mark Joyce – Frazer-Nash Consultancy Degradation model - Joe Bass - INL		ZOOM
12:10 – 12:30 pm	Revisiting ASME Code and Graphite – Cem Topbasi – EPRI		ZOOM
12:30–1:00 pm	Group Discussion /conclusions / action items	All	ZOOM
1:00 pm	Adjourn

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Workshop organizer: Nidia C Gallego, ORNL

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