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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.
R. H. Fowler, Robert N. Morris, James A. Rome
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | September 1991 | Pages 200-207
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29690
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Neutral beam injection into the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) is studied using Monte Carlo methods. The detailed geometry of ATF to properly calculate aperture, shine-through, orbit, and charge-exchange losses, as well as the net plasma heating, is included. Also, the beam geometry (including the source geometry), beam divergence, and focusing are carefully modeled. The dependence of plasma heating on the injection angle is determined. The results indicate that net plasma heating is lower for perpendicular injection than for tangential injection because of large orbit and charge-exchange losses. However, this difference is partially offset by the need to use a smaller aperture during tangential injection to prevent excessive heating of the vacuum vessel. Shine-through losses are significant for low-density perpendicular injection.