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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.
J. Mitsui, Y. Okada, F. Sakai, T. Ide, K. Hirata, T. Yamanishi, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse, I. Yamamoto, A. Kanagawa
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1646-1650
Material and Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29577
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An experiment on the separation of hydrogen isotopes has been carried out by using a thermal diffusion column with a “cryogenic-wall” cooled by liquid nitrogen. The separation factor was compared with that of a ordinary column cooled by water, and the separation factor for the “cryogenic-wall” column is higher than that for the “water cooled wall” column. Moreover, the separation factor obtained by a 473 K operation of the hot wire in the “cryogenic-wall” system was found to be greater than that by 1073 K operation. Probably because the isotopic exchange reaction between H2 and D2 was suppressed in 473 K operation; there was no HD component observed in this case, while an equilibrium amount of HD component was immediately detected in 1073 K operation.
