The MicroNuclear and Idaho Energy Inc. team collaborates to cost-effectively design, develop, refine, and commercialize the MsNB in response to our growing energy requirements..
Our MicroNuclear and Idaho Energy Vision
The MsNB is a novel advanced nuclear power system that will provide clean, safe, reliable energy to the world.
The MicroNuclear and Idaho Energy Mission
The MicroNuclear team continues to cost-effectively develop and refine the MsNB, design producing demonstrated results. Idaho Energy Inc. will commercialize the MsNB, leading the effort to construct, install, and maintain MsNB operations.
Who We Are
MicroNuclear LLC and Idaho Energy Inc. Leadership
Paul J. Marotta, PhD, PE, BCEE
CEO – MicroNuclear, LLC
Dr. Marotta is an experienced professional with broad experience in mechanical, nuclear, and environmental engineering. Dr. Marotta has managed multi-functional technical groups as an Operations Manager and Director for an engineering consulting firm. His management experience also includes serving as Manufacturing Manager for an 850-employee packaging facility and Plant Manager for a 150-employee packaging facility. Dr. Marotta also completed the Manufacturing Executive Business Management Course at the University of Michigan.
Specific to nuclear engineering design, his areas of strength include transient and accident reactor performance analyses, thermal/hydraulics, thermal structural analysis, brittle fracture, and heat transfer. Auxiliary system design experience includes component design such as vessels, pumps, valves and heat exchangers utilizing analysis codes such as Ansys, COMSOL, PATRAN, RELAP5, EES and MATLAB. Initial nuclear design and R&D expertise was developed while at the Department of Energy’s Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) (General Electric). Dr. Marotta holds patents for advance reactors/components and lead a DOE funded development, design and test effort for a novel molten salt sampling system as a research associate at Vanderbilt University. He also contributed to several peer reviewed research articles on advanced molten salt and high temperature gas nuclear reactor systems focused on design and preliminary safety analyses.
Richard McPherson
Richard McPherson has been involved in nuclear energy since attending Admiral Rickover’s famous Nuclear Power School in 1964. After his 20-year Navy career, Richard was asked, because of the Chernobyl accident, to be the United States Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, on a special six nation group to study “Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities, the Environment and Public Opinion.” Today, his focus is on manufacturing consent and deploying the Molten Salt Nuclear Battery worldwide, thus fulfilling President Eisenhower’s offer to provide American nuclear energy to the world for peace, prosperity and security.