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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.
S.K. Erents
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | September 1984 | Pages 453-458
Technical Paper | Selected papers from the Ninth International Vacuum Congress and the Fifth International Conference on Solid Surfaces (Madrid, Spain, September 26-October 1, 1983) | doi.org/10.13182/FST84-A23221
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Plasmas produced while using the MkII Bundle Divertor on DITE have been studied using a combined Langmuir/heat flux probe technique. Ion saturation currents and deposited powers to bolometers facing both the ion and electron drift directions have been measured. A substantial depression of the ion flux on the ion side is recorded, which has been explained by the shorter connection length to the divertor target plate. Radial profiles of electron temperature Te, ion temperature Ti, and local plasma density, ne have been calculated from the measurements. These are time resolved and have been studied both before and during neutral beam injection. E-folding lengths for deposited power of ∼ 1.0cm have been measured, but those for ion and electron temperature are much longer. Calculated values of Ti range from 50 to a few hundred eV, those for Te are an order of magnitude lower. An estimate of carbon limiter sputtering has been made which suggests that for the present discharge conditions (plasma current 150 kA, central density 1.5 – 3 × 1019 m−3), the sputtering rises with increasing density during neutral injection, although a fall in Ti is calculated.