Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionDec 6

"Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications."

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https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-fuel-produced-for-molten-salt-reactor-experiment

First fuel produced for molten salt reactor experiment

Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the 2030s for both terrestrial and maritime applications. ;

World Nuclear News
Show threadDavidDec 6

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/china-completes-monumental-task-using-110056982.html

Here's some context you left out. China has made a large scale molten salt reactor.

China completes monumental task using declassified US documents: 'We mastered every technique in the literature — then pushed further'

The team studied the American research and recreated the old experiments.

Yahoo News
Show threadEl TicoDec 6

@drdrowland I think the key is in molten *chloride* salt. If I recall the Chinese use a fluoride salt. Then again if we go for a first in general then it would have to be the MSRE at ORNL.

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Show threadDavidDec 6

@ElTico @collectifission

They also used thorium not uranium

Show threadEl Tico

@drdrowland
"They also used thorium not uranium"

That's true. Also I just noticed another difference. This is a fast-spectrum reactor while the Chinese are building a thermal-spectrum reactor. That said, and while they did specify that this is a molten chloride salt fast reactor in the article. The tittle of "First fuel produced for molten salt reactor experiment" does bother me as well. But it's probably a case of either laziness or a character limit. In Japanese at least this wouldn't be a problem because there tittles are longer and a summary of the entire thing haha

Also having saying that I can assure you both Emil and me are big fans of the Chinese molten salt reactor experiments and look forward to see the technology commercialized as soon as possible. I'm sure who's first to market will change our lives for the better a lot more than who's first to the lab 😉

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Dec 6 at 8:09pmWeb