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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.
S. Woolf, W. L. Filippone, B. D. Ganapol, J. C. Garth
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 110-118
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17871
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Two discrete ordinates methods, the Sn and streaming ray methods, are applied to electron transport problems. Calculational results in the form of energy deposition profiles are compared with those obtained by the method of moments for the case of a 200-keV plane perpendicular source embedded in infinite aluminum. In a second set of calculations, Sn and streaming ray flux data are compared with results of a recently developed analytical benchmark technique applied to the solution of the energy-independent form of the Spencer-Lewis equation for electron transport. Satisfactory agreement with moments and analytical benchmark calculations is found. Areas of divergence among the various calculational methods are examined.