TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary design evaluation of a natural circulation molten salt irradiation loop
AU - Bhaskar, Sandesh
AU - Abou-Jaoude, Abdalla
N1 - Funding Information:
The work is supported through the INL Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program under DOE Idaho Operations Office Contract DE-AC07-05ID14517.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Nuclear Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Many promising Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) concepts under development rely on relatively untested salt compositions. Irradiation data will likely be necessary for the licensing of these concepts. A feasibility study is currently underway at Idaho National Laboratory to establish the possibility of hosting a compact molten salt irradiation loop inside the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). A case study for a uranium-fueled chloride-based salt is examined in this paper. Thermal hydraulic simulations are conducted using the system code, SAM, to scope the achievable natural circulating velocities and inform design decisions.
AB - Many promising Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) concepts under development rely on relatively untested salt compositions. Irradiation data will likely be necessary for the licensing of these concepts. A feasibility study is currently underway at Idaho National Laboratory to establish the possibility of hosting a compact molten salt irradiation loop inside the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). A case study for a uranium-fueled chloride-based salt is examined in this paper. Thermal hydraulic simulations are conducted using the system code, SAM, to scope the achievable natural circulating velocities and inform design decisions.
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U2 - 10.13182/T30882
DO - 10.13182/T30882
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85092151899
SN - 0003-018X
VL - 121
SP - 1895
EP - 1896
JO - Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
JF - Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
T2 - 2019 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, ANS 2019
Y2 - 17 November 2019 through 21 November 2019
ER -