Published on Jan 25, 2015
A liquefied salt activator (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission activators where the primary coolant, or also the energy itself, is a liquefied salt mix. MSRs perform at higher temperature levels than water-cooled reactors for greater thermodynamic savings, while staying at low vapor tension.
In many designs the nuclear energy is dissolved in the molten fluoride salt coolant as
uranium tetrafluoride (UF4). Solid energy designs rely on ceramic energy dispersed in a graphite matrix, regarding the molten salt providing low stress, high temperature level air conditioning.
The early Aircraft Reactor Experiment (1954) was primarily motivated by the tiny
dimension that the style might offer, while the Molten-Salt Reactor
Experiment (1965-- 1969) was a prototype for a thorium gas cycle breeder activator nuclear power plant. Among the Generation IV reactor designs is a molten-salt-cooled, molten-salt-fuelled reactor; the initial reference design is 1000 MWe.
