Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for fast molten salt reactor fuel-salt preparation
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Application No.: US16415668Application Date: 2019-05-17
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Publication No.: US10685753B1Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Donald Ken Baer
- Applicant: Metatomic, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US SC Aiken
- Assignee: Metatomic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Metatomic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US SC Aiken
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: G21C21/16
- IPC: G21C21/16 ; G21C3/04 ; G21C17/06 ; G21C21/02 ; G21F9/30 ; G21C3/54

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for fast molten salt reactor fuel-salt preparation. In one implementation, the method may comprise providing fuel assemblies having fuel pellets, removing the fuel pellets and spent fuel constituents from the fuel assemblies, granulating the removed fuel pellets or process feed to a chlorination process, processing the granular spent fuel salt into chloride salt by ultimate reduction and chlorination of the uranium and associated fuel constituents chloride salt solution, enriching the granular spent fuel salt, chlorinating the enriched granular spent fuel salt to yield molten chloride salt fuel, analyzing, adjusting, and certifying the molten chloride salt fuel for end use in a molten salt reactor, pumping the molten chloride salt fuel and cooling the molten chloride salt fuel, and milling the solidified molten chloride salt fuel to predetermined specifications.
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