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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.
W. Chen, E. T. Cheng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1346-1351
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23043
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A minimum thickness, low activation toroidal field coil design concept is presented. The concept is consistent with the low activation fusion reactor design requirements suitable for STARFIRE type devices. The design approach consists mainly of replacing the high activation components such as stainless steel structure and copper stabilizer in the high flux region of the TF coils by low activation components such as aluminum alloy structure and aluminum stabilizer, while leaving the core of the coils unchanged from earlier designs. The resulting low activation front regions will reduce the dose level due to its lower residual activity and the fact that it is acting as a shield between the high activity core and the personnel access area. The cross sectional areas required for various low activation TF coil options were compared in order to develop a design that fits within the very constrained space suitable in the inboard region of a tokamak reactor.