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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. K. Garner, J. Blanchard, G. Orient, K. Taghavi, M. Tillack, M. Youssef, K. Shin,b, H. Madaramec
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 962-967
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-A40158
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A preliminary conceptual design was made of a test module for testing the BCSS lithium cooled, vanadium structure blanket concept in a tandem mirror fusion test reactor. The test module is intended to run at the correct stresses and temperatures of a segment of the blanket, while operating at reduced neutron wall loadings. Although this approach ties the effort to a single design and its issues, it tends to reveal interactions that might not be apparent if a more general approach were taken, and can lead to some useful general conclusions.