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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|Transient Fuel Behavior and Safety Related Issues
Monday, October 10, 2022|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Adagio/Allegro
Session Chair:
Michelle Bales (NEA)
Alternate Chair:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractabel)
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Development and Validation of Creep Model at High Temperature for Simulation of Ballooning In MARS-KS/FRAPTRAN Coupled Code
1:30–1:55PM EDT
Hyochan Kim (KAERI), Changhwan Shin (KAERI), Sunguk Lee (KAERI), Joosuk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Taewan Kim (Incheon Nat'l Univ.)
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Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic and Fuel Performance Simulations of the TWIST LOCA Commissioning Test Series in TREAT
1:55–2:20PM EDT
R.J. Armstrong (INL), C.B. Jensen (INL), C.P. Folsom (INL), N.E. Woolstenhulme (INL)
FRAPTRAN-TE-1.5 Simulation of the Halden LOCA Tests IFA-650.9 and 10: Impact of Model Options and Assumptions
2:20–2:45PM EDT
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel ENGIE), Thomas Drieu (Tractebel ENGIE)
The CODEX-SBO Experiment
2:45–3:10PM EDT
Róbert Farkas (Centre for Energy Research), Imre Nagy (Centre for Energy Research), Nóra Vér (Centre for Energy Research), Zoltán Hózer (Centre for Energy Research), Péter Szabó (Centre for Energy Research), Márta Horváth (Centre for Energy Research)
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