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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. P. Monahan, W. L. Filippone
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 107 | Number 3 | March 1991 | Pages 201-216
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23785
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An integral discrete ordinates method designed for use on modern, large-memory, vector and/or parallel processing supercomputers has been developed. The method is similar to conventional Sn techniques in that the medium is divided into spatial mesh cells and discrete directions are used. However, in place of an approximate differencing scheme, a nearly exact matrix representation of the streaming operator is determined. Although extremely large, this matrix can be stored on today’s large-memory computers for repeated use in the source iteration. Since the source iteration is cast in matrix form, it benefits enormously from vector and/or parallel processing, if available. Several electron transport test results are presented demonstrating a reduction in numerical diffusion and elimination of observable ray effects.