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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.
H. W. Hendel, D. L. Jassby
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 106 | Number 2 | October 1990 | Pages 114-137
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A27465
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The tokamak is described in its role as a neutron source, with emphasis on experimental results for deuterium-deuterium (D-D) neutron production. Topics covered include tokamak operation, sources of fusion and nonfusion neutrons, principal neutron detection methods and their calibration, neutron energy spectra and fluxes outside the tokamak plasma chamber, history of neutron production in tokamaks, neutron emission and fusion power gain from the Joint European Torus and the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (the largest present-day tokamaks), and deuterium-tritium neutron production from burnup of D-D tritons. The prospects for future tokamak neutron production and potential applications of tokamak neutron sources are also discussed.