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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.
J. C. Doyle, D. R. Cohn, L. M. Lidsky, L. Bromberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1051-1056
Fusion Breeder | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39911
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Application of resistive magnet tokamaks to fissile fuel production has been studied. The Resistive magnet Tokamak Fusion Breeder (RTFB) uses semi-monolithic Bitter plate toroidal field coils and has a major radius of 3.81 m. with a fusion power output of 618 MWth. An energy-multiplying blanket gives a total blanket power of 4986 MWth, while producing 3742 kg/yr of 233U and 239Pu. The RTFB cost is estimated to be $2.6B.
