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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.
Hiroshi Oomura, Hideki Nakashima, Shunji Ido, Sadao Nakai, Chiyoe Yamanaka
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 5 | Number 1 | January 1984 | Pages 80-89
Deep Penetration: Problem and Method of Solution | Special Section Contents / Sheilding | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23081
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Three-dimensional Monte Carlo analyses were performed for the three-legged beam ports of the laser fusion reactor SENRI-I. The validity of two devices for attenuating neutron flux was examined, and it was shown that the fast neutron flux attenuation of 1.4 × 105 can be reached by adopting these two devices in combination. The effectiveness of variance reduction techniques was also examined. It was determined that path length stretching was useful when it was used for neutron groups above 1 MeV. Adopting adjoint flux-dependent Russian roulette weight cutoff also seemed useful.