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INL achieves fuel-making milestone for MCRE

March 6, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News
Uranium chloride fuel salt. (Photo: INL)

Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory continue to make progress on the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE), which entails research and development for the first operational advanced nuclear reactor to use a mixture of molten chloride salt and uranium as fuel and coolant. The experiment is evaluating the safety and physics of the molten chloride fast reactor that Southern Company and TerraPower are planning to build.

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