Advanced Reactor Archives

Lead-Bismuth Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Licensing Development; Methodology for Meeting Containment System Principal Design Criteria for Heavy Metal Fast Reactor systems, Columbia Basin Consulting Group

The objective of this project was to review Columbia Basin Consulting Group (CBCG)’s design concept for a leadbismuth-cooled fast reactor and thereafter to determine how the design might benefit from the functional containment concept, which allows the designer to take credit for a sequence of barriers to contain or confine radionuclides.

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Verification of Molten-Salt Properties at High Temperatures, Terrestrial Energy USA

The objective of this project was to obtain actual thermophysical properties of fuel salts using modern experimental methods rather than close approximations based on historical data and to investigate the fuel salts’ thermal conductivities, viscosities, and densities.

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Optimization and Assessment of the Neutronics and Fuel Cycle Performance of the Transatomic Power Molten Salt Reactor Design, Transatomic Power Corp.

The objective of this project was to provide Transatomic Power Corp. (TAP) with a neutronic and fuel cycle analysis of the company’s liquid-fueled molten-salt reactor (MSR) core design.

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Legacy Metal Fuel Data Exploration for Commercial Scale-up, Oklo Inc.

Oklo Inc. (Oklo) partnered with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to accelerate the fuel manufacturing process to support Oklo’s path to commercialization. The project involved compiling and assessing information about legacy metal fuel data and fabrication from EBR-II, the liquid-metalcooled fast reactor that operated for 30 years at INL.

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