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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.
M. H. Hassan, J. P. Blanchard, G. L. Kulcinski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1927-1933
Material and Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30001
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Radiation damage will be a major key point in the design of the many duplex components in fusion reactors. There is a substantial amount of available data showing that stress plays a major role in die onset, and possibly the rate, of void growth in austenitic stainless steels. There is also a strong support for models which predict a coupling of swelling and creep through the stress environment A parametric study for the stress-enhanced swelling and its connection to creep is conducted for a typical fusion power demonstration reactor.