Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780081012437
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
Published: 2017-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Solid fuel, salt-cooled reactors

Raluca Scarlat1 and Charalampos Andreades2, 1University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, 2University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstract

FHRs are a Generation IV fluoride salt-cooled, solid-fueled, high-temperature reactor class currently under development in the United States and China, by both research institutions and universities. The concept of an FHR was generated by trying to integrate advantages of other reactor classes (low pressure, high temperature, high efficiency) while eliminating some of their drawbacks (huge containment domes, low efficiencies). Fixed fuel and pebble fuel, SMRs, and gigawatt reactors are being studied.

FHRs are a promising reactor technology for the needs of a future electrical grid with highly fluctuating solar and wind power. FHRs might also serve as a stepping stone to liquid fuel molten salt reactors, helping to understand phenomenology and engineering issues prior to having fuel and associated fission products present in the primary coolant.

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