THMSR - Key Persons
ORNL director Alvin Weinberg marks 6000 full power hours of MSRE operation A 1000MWe nuclear power plant consumes 3,2 kilograms of fission fuel per day. In case of an LWR, an average of roughly 680 kilograms of natural uranium per day needs to be mined to provide that daily consumption. In case of a thorium MSR, 3,2 kilograms of thorium per day needs to be mined to produce the same amount of energy. (Hargraves & Moir, 2010). This means that a year of electricity for a medium sized city (1 gigawatt year, roughly the amount of electricity for a city of one million inhabitants, living by western standards) can be produced with one tonne (1000 kg) of natural thorium. Another relevant comparison would be with coal. With coal, a quantity of 3,3 million tonnes (equals roughly 570 kilometres of full freight train cars) would be needed to produce the same amount of energy.
Dr. Ralph Hania is a nuclear fuel expert and chairs the molten salt reactor research at NRG in Petten.
Treasurer, Sylvia Barlag. Dr. Sylvia Barlag holds a PhD in Physics and worked and lived in Switzerland, France and Germany for several years. She was a member of the management board of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) until 1 February 2006. She worked as international Director Security, Quality and Business Improvement in the radar business line of the multinational company Thales until 2019. Currently she is a member of the Board of the Dutch National Physics Society NNV.
Gijs Zwartsenberg, Chairperson. Educated as a philosopher, and working as a trainer in clear thinking and writing for Your Point, he considers the world's energy problem as a thinking problem. Reading David MacKay's Sustainable Energy - without the hot air opened his eyes to the magnitude of the confusion. Kant's famous enlightenment motto 'dare to think' encouraged him to do his thinking.
Job Titles:
- Kloosterman Is Head of the Section Reactor Physics and Nuclear Materials ( RPNM ), Delft Technical University
Prof.Dr.Ir Jan Leen Kloosterman is Head of the Section Reactor Physics and Nuclear Materials (RPNM), Delft Technical University