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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.
Brent L. Rice, Theodore A. Parish
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1125-1129
Alternate Fuels and Innovative Confinement Concept | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39844
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A model is developed to describe the tritium and fissile fuel flow in a fusion-fission system which consists of a fusion (hybrid) reactor, tritium production (fission) reactors, and (fission) power reactors. The fusion reactor provides all of the fissile fuel for the tritium production and power reactors. Tritium production reactors assure that the system is self sufficient in tritium even if the fusion reactor is not self sufficient. Studies were performed to determine the changes in the cost of electricity from the system as the tritium breeding responsibility varies between the fusion reactor and the tritium production reactors. Allowance for system growth was accomplished with the use of a compound doubling time parameter. Results indicate that the cost of electricity from certain fusion-fission systems may be comparable to that from other advanced systems expected in the same era.