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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.
Liu Cheng-An, Wang Tian-Long, Lu Xun
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 876-881
Advanced Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29455
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With the Tokamak driver parameters that could be chieved round about 2000 in the world, neutronics studies and analyses have been performed to the blanket configurtion and materials and self-shielding effect of group cross section for the commercial Tokamak fusion-fission hybrid reactor. The main concern of the study has been the assessment of the global tritium breeding ratio, the global Pu239 breeding ratio and determinmatton of the total power production. The results show that it's possible to produce 4 tons of Pu239 per year and net electric output of one GWe, that the self-shielding effect is not important for the fast fission blanket.