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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.
Hosny M. Attaya, Mohamed E. Sawan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 608-613
Blanket and First-Wall Engineering | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40106
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A computer program for evaluating the poloidal distribution of the neutron wall loading (NWL) in toroidal fusion reactors is developed using numerical integration for general plasma and wall shapes. The neutron source within the plasma could be uniform or could be described to properly represent the neutron density associated with the magnetic flux surfaces. The method and techniques used in NEWLIT are presented. A comparison with the Monte-Carlo code MCNP shows excellent agreement with substantial savings in computer time and required user time. To verify the validity of the NWL as calculated by NEWLIT, a detailed 3-D neutronics calculation was carried out for a representative tokamak reactor. The poloidal distribution of the important responses is compared to the NWL poloidal distribution.