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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.
Y. Ikeda, Y. Seki, H. Maekawa, Y. Oyama, T. Nakamura
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1466-1471
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39973
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Experiments on induced activities in type 316 stainless steel (SUS316) have been performed to verify an induced activity calculation code system, THIDA, by using the FNS facility. Samples of 10 mm φ × 2 mm t SUS316 were irradiated in three different D-T neutron fields. One sample was positioned at 10 cm from the target without any assembly around it and the other two placed inside the Li2O-C pseudo-spherical blanket assembly. After the irradiation, spectra of gamma-rays emitted from produced activities in each sample were measured by using a 60 cm3 Ge(Li) detector following the cooling times from 10 min. to about one month. The gamma-ray spectra were compared with those calculated by THIDA. All measured total gamma-ray intensities agreed with calculated ones within 15 % except one case. Though there are some disagreements in the individual gamma-ray intensities, the agreements are good as a whole.
