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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.
Eishi Ibe, Shunsuke Uchida
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 85 | Number 4 | December 1983 | Pages 339-349
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18381
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A computer program package AQUARY has been developed for quantitative evaluation of concentration distributions of the radiolytic species in overall boiling water reactor primary systems. The hydrogen peroxide decomposition rate k, the gas release coefficient ϵ, and the accumulation of products through recirculation of the coolant were taken into consideration. The following relations were found: 1. Hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide concentrations in the core are substantially high, and the following relation holds in the core, 2[O2] = [H2] < [H2O2]. 2. The hydrogen peroxide concentration contributes markedly to the oxygen concentration at the water sampling stations in a plant. In particular, the following equation holds if k > 0.1 s-1, 2[O2] at the sampling station = [H2O2] at the core exit.