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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"molten salt"”.
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Decommissioning considerations for molten salt type reactors
Molten salt type small modular reactors are presently being developed as an option for providing electricity and alternative energy forms. The current proposed designs do not document how decommissioning will be addressed. The decontamination activities necessary for these reactor technologies upon …
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Species transfer processes in molten salt reactors
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Studies of Used Fuel Fluorination and U Extraction Based on Molten Salt Technology for Advanced Molten Salt Fuel Fabrication
… fluoride (LiF) and thorium fluoride (ThF4) salt also known as FLiTh for a thorium (Th) fuel cycle. The first technique proposed for UNF recycling was to use the cladding as an anode to oxidize the zircaloy and dissolve it into a LiF, sodium fluoride (NaF), zirconium fluoride (ZrF4) salt. …
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Conceptual design of a breed & burn molten salt reactor
A breed-and-burn molten salt reactor (BBMSR) concept is proposed to address the Generation IV fuel cycle sustainability objective in a once-through cycle with low enrichment and no reprocessing. The BBMSR uses separate fuel and coolant molten salts, with the fuel contained in assemblies of …
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Wall Heat Transfer Coefficient in a Molten Salt Bubble Column
… metal. This reactor will be operated with a molten salt medium. Bubble columns are widely used in various fields of process engineering, such as oxidation, hydrogenation, fermentation, Fischer–Tropsch synthesis and waste water treatment. The advantages of these reactors over other multiphase …
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Evaluation of elemental boron production using molten salt electrolysis, An
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-110).
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Evaluating Fluoride Molten Salt Thermophysical Properties with Transient Grating Spectroscopy
Accurate molten salt thermophysical properties are required to optimize the efficiency and safety of molten salt-based energy technologies. Unfortunately, existing thermal conductivity data for molten fluorides are plagued by large uncertainties. In addition, the data displays a curious positive …
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Studies on Molten Salt Fuels: Properties, Purification, and Materials Degradation
The molten salt reactor (MSR) is one of the advanced nuclear reactors expected to be alternatives to the conventional water-cooled nuclear reactor systems. Despite many advantages of MSRs, properties of molten salts have not been sufficiently measured in previous studies. In addition, the corrosion …
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Design of experimental systems for a liquid-fueled molten salt reactor
Molten salt reactors (MSR’s) represent the next step in the production of nuclear power through neutron fission. They provide inherent benefits over solid fueled reactors through the use of liquid salts as a working fluid. The reactor pressure can be kept low and temperature high, leading to …
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Advancements in moltres for time-dependent multiphysics molten salt reactor modeling
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Advancement and verification of Moltres for molten salt reactor safety analysis
Molten salt reactors, a class of advanced nuclear reactors, promise numerous improvements over the current fleet of largely light-water reactors. As the world continues its transition towards low-carbon electricity generation to combat climate change, building molten salt reactors is a potential …
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A spectroscopic and electrochemical study of chlorotitanates in molten salt media
… so electro refining of the metal in a molten chloride bath at temperatures above 700°C is necessary. The present study focused on the electrorefining of titanium in a bath consisting of the CsCl-NaCl-KCl eutectic as the solvent. Interfacial phenomena (multiple reaction steps and the …
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Investigation of molten salt electrolytes for low-temperature liquid metal batteries
… and electrochemically stable with pure molten metals. For this reason, a research program investigating a promising low-temperature binary molten salt system, NaOH-NaI, is undertaken. Thermodynamic studies confirm a low eutectic melting temperature (219°C) and, together with the …
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Molten Salt Nanomaterials for Thermal Energy Storage and Concentrated Solar Power Applications
… are compatible for these high temperatures. Molten salts are thermally stable up to 600 degrees C and beyond. Using the molten salts as the TES materials confers several benefits, which include: (1) Higher operating temperature can significantly increase the overall cycle efficiency and …
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Reconsideration of Inherent Neutron Sources in Liquid Fuel of Molten Salt Reactors
… sources from alpha-n and gamma-n reactions in molten fluoride fuel salts using current gamma-n and alpha-n cross-sections and codes where possible. Original inherent neutron source was calculated for Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) in 1959 using then-determined alpha-n cross-sections and …
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ecFOAM: A finite volume electrochemistry solver, with applications for molten salt systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Large-eddy simulations of recirculation zones in channel-type molten salt reactors
… such family of reactor designs is called the Molten Salt Reactor, which has been successfully demonstrated experimentally during the operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment(MSRE) at the Oak-Ridge National Laboratory during the 1960s. Thermal-hydraulic simulations of this reactor are an …
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Advanced online fuel reprocessing simulation for thorium-fueled molten salt breeder reactor
… systems. This thesis introduces a Python script, SaltProc, which simulates MSR online reprocessing by modeling the changing isotopic composition of an irradiated fuel salt. SaltProc couples with the Monte Carlo code, SERPENT 2, for neutron transport and depletion calculations. SaltProc …
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Simulation of Irradiation of a Molten Salt Loop at the MIT Reactor
Over the past decade or so, molten salt reactors (MSR) have gained a lot of interest within the nuclear energy community, with two of the ten reactor designs supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Development Program being MSRs. Commercializing MSR technology requires new …
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Design and Testing of a Bubble Generator for Molten Salt Surrogate Fluid
… intended for use in studying bubble dynamics in molten salt reactors using a room temperature surrogate fluid by matching the Reynolds number, Eötvös number, and Morton number defined by the properties of the helium bubbles in the pump bowl of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE). The …
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