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Thea Energy releases preconceptual plans for Helios fusion power plant
Fusion technology company Thea Energy announced this week that it has completed the preconceptual design of its fusion power plant, called Helios. According to the company, Helios is “the first stellarator fusion power plant architecture that is realistic to build and operate with hardware that is available today, and that is tolerant to the rigors of manufacturing, construction, long-term operation, and maintenance of a commercial device.”
D. D. Sood, P. N. Iyer, R. Prasad, V. N. Vaidya, K. N. Roy, V. Venugopal, Z. Singh, M. V. Ramaniah
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | November 1975 | Pages 411-415
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24314
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The feasibility of using plutonium as a fuel in a molten salt reactor has been evaluated by the determination of the solubility of PuF3 in a number of salt compositions containing LiF, BeF2, and ThF4 in the temperature range of interest for such a reactor. An empirical correlation for the solubility of PuF3 as a function of salt composition has been obtained from the solubility data to calculate the solubility of PuF3 in other salt compositions of interest. These data indicate that PuF3 has adequate solubility in salt compositions of interest for a molten salt reactor of either the converter or the breeder type.
