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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.
Robert S. Brown, Jr., John S. Hendricks
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 97 | Number 3 | November 1987 | Pages 245-248
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A23507
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Stratified sampling is a method used in Monte Carlo calculations to take advantage of certain known aspects of probability distributions. The sampling region is subdivided into discrete subregions, and each of these is sampled a preassigned number of times. A form of stratified sampling has been implemented into a major Monte Carlo particle transport computer code with very encouraging results.
