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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.
Jean Jacquinot, Guy J. Sadler, The JET Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 4 | July 1992 | Pages 2254-2264
Technical Paper | Special Issue on D-He Fusion / D-3He/Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29719
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A new series of D-3He fusion yield experiment has been performed in the Joint European Torus (JET) using ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) to generate a high-energy 3He tail reacting with a background deuterium plasma. Using recently installed antennas with beryllium screens, radio-frequency power reaching 15 MW can be coupled to the plasma at the fundamental cyclotron resonance of 3He near the magnetic axis. Best results are obtained with 3.5-MA discharges in the double-null configuration with high recycling on the outboard limiters to stay in L mode and to control the plasma density and purity. A record fusion power level of Pfus = 140 kW is obtained, corresponding to a reaction rate of 4.6 × 1016 reaction/s. The amplification factor Q = Pfus/PICRH reaches a maximum of 1.25% at PICRH = 10 MW. The previous best result were Pfus = 700 kW and Q = 1%. Time-resolved measurements show a correlation between fusion power and energy stored in the fast 3He ions in agreement with calculations based on classical slowing down of the 3He ions driven by ICRH to an average energy in the mega-electron-volt range.