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INL makes first fuel for Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
Idaho National Laboratory has announced the creation of the first batch of enriched uranium chloride fuel salt for the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE). INL said that its fuel production team delivered the first fuel salt batch at the end of September, and it intends to produce four additional batches by March 2026. MCRE will require a total of 72–75 batches of fuel salt for the reactor to go critical.
G. Prillinger, A. Fischer, Eva Fischer, H. Krause
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 2 | Number 2 | April 1982 | Pages 301-312
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST82-A20762
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Results of discrete ordinates radiation transport calculations are presented for the proposed tokamak ignition and bum control experiment ZEPHYR. As a first step, baryte concrete with 0.15 wt% B4C was identified as an optimum concrete for the shielding fitting tightly around the torus and some attached devices. This shielding material with a maximum thickness of 70 em allows personnel to enter the experiment hall just a few hours after termination of a worst-case bum discharge sequence. Inside the vacuum vessel, delayed dose rates amount to several tens of rem/h after only 50 s of plasma bum for waiting times that are typical for maintenance and repair, thus, remote handling equipment is required. Bootstrapped radiation transport calculations for neutral beam injectors show them to be strongly activated after the worst-case discharge sequence with typical dose rates of some rem/h. Thus shielding is required around the injector boxes and most repair tasks have to be performed remotely. Delayed dose rates outside the torus shielding in front of typical straight diagnostic ducts with diameters of 15 to 25 em are shown to be significant but “hands-on” maintenance of the diagnostic equipment will be possible with some restrictions on working time.