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Reexamining MSRs • MSRs often thought of as the “thorium” reactor • By mandate they were developed as breeders to compete with the Sodium Fast Breeder • The belief at the time was Uranium resources were extremely limited, we now know better • MSRs can be both “converters” or “breeders” but choices must come down to pragmatic facts, not ideology or imposed funding mandates • However, no one can dispute the success of advancing “thorium” to the public • Come for the Thorium Stay for the REACTOR!
Back to Breeder vs Converter • Most researchers focus on pure breeders • However, the R&D and operational costs of continuous salt process much higher than most assume • A pure Th-U233 cycle also involves Highly Enriched Uranium. Many consider this a non-starter on proliferation grounds • A “converter” has almost negligible fuel costs, assured resources, enhanced anti-proliferation features and overall is much simpler and less R&D
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Page 4 and 5: The 1970s Single Fluid, Graphite Mo
Page 6 and 7: Some Design Constraints • ThF 4 a
Page 8 and 9: Design Choices Harder or Softer Spe
Page 10 and 11: Design Choices Denatured vs Pure Th
Page 12 and 13: U.S Historic Timeline • Early 197
Page 14 and 15: Kurchatov Institute Program Mid 197
Page 16 and 17: Conference on Molten Salts in Nucle
Page 20 and 21: Summary of Current World Efforts
Page 22 and 23: Chinese TMSR Program
Page 26 and 27: My Design Philosophy • “A desig
Page 28 and 29: DMSR Converter Reactors • Oak Rid
Page 30 and 31: FPs Fission Products Ingestion Radi
Page 32 and 33: Reactor Lifetime Uranium (t) Annual
Page 34 and 35: Suggested Improvements • Shorter
Page 36 and 37: Low Enriched Uranium Only DMSR •
Page 38 and 39: ORNL FHR Focus on Solid Block Fuel
Page 40 and 41: Thanks ORNL From “cooled” back
Page 42 and 43: Want Higher Power Density, More hea
Page 44 and 45: Where To From Here? • Worldwide i
Page 46 and 47: Introducing… Terrestrial Energy I
Page 48 and 49: EXTRA SLIDES…
Page 51 and 52: LWR Fuel Cycle Costs All assume 100
Page 53 and 54: MSBR Fuel Cycle Costs Estimate base
Page 55 and 56: DMSR Fuel Cycle Costs Estimate base
Page 57 and 58: What factors differentiate between
Page 59 and 60: Mid 60s ORNL Two Fluid MSBR
Page 61 and 62: Mid 60s ORNL Two Fluid MSBR Disadva
Page 63 and 64: Single Fluid Graphite MSBR (70s) Di
Page 65 and 66: Late 1970s DMSR Converter 30 Year O
Page 67 and 68: Traditional FUJI • Advantages vs
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Page 71 and 72: 1 ½ Fluid MSFR (was TMSR) Disadvan
Page 73 and 74: Fusion Structural Materials Studied
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MSR 1/3 the total volume of PWR Com
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All radiation within a sealed “Ho
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Off Gas Both a Benefit and Challeng
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Advantages of all Molten Salt React
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A Brief History of Molten Salt Reac
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A Brief History of Molten Salt Reac
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I told you I’d bring this up Jess
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Pebble Bed FHR (MIT, UCB, Wisconsin
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Testing Pebble Flow UC Berkeley Als
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What factors differentiate between
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