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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.
Kenji Okuno, Shigeru O'hira, Hiroshi Yoshida, Yuji Naruse, Tatsushi Suzuki, Shingo Hirata, Masahiro Misumi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 713-718
Tritium Properties and Interactions with Material | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25218
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An experimental apparatus has been developed to carry out tritium permeation experiments for candidate first-wall materials subjected to a high flux of low energy tritium ions, and installed in a glovebox. The experimental apparatus consists of five main systems; (1) a tritium ion source with energies variable from 20 to 1400 eV, (2) a main chamber system for directing an ion beam onto a heated target and for measuring various implantation-related experimental parameters by means of SIMS and AES, (3) a downstream system for measuring the permeated tritium through the target specimen by means of QMS, (4) a tritium supply and recovery system and (5) evacuation system. Operational tests with the system have yielded deuterium ion-beam with more than 90% deuterons and intensities from 2x1015 D+/cm2s at 200 eV to greater than 3x1015 D+/cm2s at 1000 eV. The energy width of the ion beam was about 10% of the beam energy ranging from 100 to 1400 eV. Baseline pressure as low as 9x10−9 Torr and 1x10−9 Torr have been achieved in the main chamber and downstream system, respectively.
