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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. Zimmermann, M.S. Kazimi, N.O. Siu, R.J. Thome
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 951-956
Magnet Engineering, Design and Experiments — I | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39816
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Several fault scenarios for electrical failures in the Poloidal Field (PF) magnet system are investigated involving shorts and faults with constant applied voltage at the coil terminals. A simplified model of the Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) is used to examine the load conditions for the PF and the Toroidal Field (TF) coils resulting from these fault scenarios. It is concluded that shorts do not pose large risks for the PF coils. Also, the type of plasma disruption has little impact on the net forces on the PF and the TF coils. However, the out-of-plane loads at the inner corner of the TF coils can increase substantially for a wide range of scenarios, and this effect can even be stronger depending on the terminal constraints on the internal PF coils.