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Molten salt test loop at INL means real-time data on sensors and materials
The Department of Energy announced March 31 that a new Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed at Idaho National Laboratory recently went through its inaugural test run. The closed-loop test system will allow for continuous monitoring and analysis of chloride-based molten salt reactor technology and instruments before the construction of the Southern Company/TerraPower Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment. MCRE—an experimental fast-spectrum molten salt research reactor—will be built at INL’s repurposed Zero Power Physics Reactor, which has been renamed LOTUS (Laboratory for Operation and Testing in the United States).
Technical Session|Modeling, Analysis, and Methods
Tuesday, October 11, 2022|10:15–11:55AM EDT|Branle
Session Chair:
Ian Porter (GE)
Alternate Chair:
Chao Wang (Framatome)
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Assessing New Accident Tolerant Fuel and Cladding Models in the Fuel Performance Code Bison
10:15–10:40AM EDT
Gyanender Singh (INL), Yifeng Che (INL), Kyle Gamble (INL), Aysenur Toptan (INL), Jason Hales (INL), Stephen Novascone (INL)
Paper
Fuel Performance Analysis of Cr-Coated Fuel During Startup and Normal Operation of LWRs Using FEMAXI-8
10:40–11:05AM EDT
Soki Dehara (Waseda Univ.), Akifumi Yamaji (Waseda Univ.), Yoshiyuki Nemoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shinichiro Yamashita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Out-Of-Reactor Creep Analysis of Chromium Surface-Coated Optimized ZIRLO™ Cladding
11:05–11:30AM EDT
J.M. Vidal (ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas), I. del Río (ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas), J. Walters (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Y. Long (Westinghouse Electric Co.), O. Linsuain (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
PCMI Analyses of SiC Cladded Fuel During BWR LOCA with FEMAXI-ATF
11:30–11:55AM EDT
Yutaka Nakao (Waseda Univ.), Akifumi Yamaji (Waseda Univ.), Yoshiyuki Nemoto (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Shinichiro Yamashita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
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