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@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 😉
@drdrowland Yeah I found a source:
" It features a fertile blanket of lithium-beryllium *fluoride* (FLiBe) enriched to 99.95% Li-7 and is fueled with uranium tetrafluoride (UF4)."
https://www.world-energy.org/article/54333.html
I did remember the Chinese had bought a bunch of FLiBe from ORNL. But now I can say for sure with that source.
So that's why it says "the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor", this is a chloride salt, while the Chinese experiments use a fluoride salt.
The experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium-powered molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, has successfully achieved the first conversion of thorium-uranium nuclear fuel, the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences an
@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.
"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."
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/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. ;
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