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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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NN Asks: What does it take to build a domestic fuel salt supply chain?
Adam Burak
We need facilities capable of converting uranium and thorium feedstocks into salts, as well as a source of thorium, if we are to build a domestic fuel salt supply chain.
Our current supply chain provides a potential pathway to produce one type of fuel salt. The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used uranium trifluoride/uranium tetrafluoride (UF3/4) as fuel in the late 1960s, and some current developers are following suit. Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) made as part of the enrichment process could be reduced to uranium fluoride salts with a +3 or +4 valence state. However, as oxygen and moisture are critical impurities for molten salt, a facility with the capability to properly handle molten salts would be necessary.
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3:15–5:00PM PDT
Panel|Palos Verdes A/B
Session Chair: Dillon R. Shaver|Alternate Chair: Lander Ibarra
Redondo
Session Organizer: W. David Pointer
Manhattan
Session Chair: Lane B. Carasik|Alternate Chair: Vivek Rao
10:15AM–12:00PM PDT
Session Chair: Igor A. Bolotnov|Alternate Chair: Arsen Iskhakov
Palos Verdes A/B
Session Chair: Emilian Popov|Alternate Chairs: Emilian Popov, Robert Martin
Session Chair: Nadish Saini|Alternate Chair: Yue Jin
1:00–2:45PM PDT
Session Chair: Ralph Wiser|Alternate Chair: Dillon R. Shaver
Session Chair: Piyush Sabharwall|Alternate Chair: W. David Pointer
Session Chair: Subash Sharma|Alternate Chair: Trevor Howard
Session Chair: Elia Merzari|Alternate Chair: Yassin A. Hassan
Session Chair: Lander Ibarra|Alternate Chair: Milos Atz
Session Chair: Xu Wu|Alternate Chair: Jun Fang
Session Chair: Subash L. Sharma|Alternate Chair: Nithin Panicker
San Simeon B
Session Chair: Bao-Wen Yang|Alternate Chair: Jun Liao
Session Chair: Minghui Chen|Alternate Chair: Qiuping Lv
Session Chair: SuJong Yoon|Alternate Chair: Vittorio Badalassi
Session Chair: Juliana P. Duarte|Alternate Chair: Kyung Mo Kim
Session Chair: Nolan Goth|Alternate Chair: Sheng Zhang
Session Chair: SuJong Yoon|Alternate Chair: Wei Ding
Session Chair: Guanyi Wang
Session Chair: Nolan Goth|Alternate Chair: Franklin Curtis
Session Chair: Trevor Kent Howard|Alternate Chair: Robert K. Salko
Panel|San Simeon B
Session Chair: Xingang Zhao|Alternate Chair: Yang Liu
