Selected Topics of Molten Salt Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry of Zirconium in Molten Chlorides

1 School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China 3 School of Metallurgical Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan 243002, China 4 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands * E-mail: [email protected]...

Electrochemistry with an electron beam – local metal deposition in ionic-liquid and molten-salt thin films

Molten-salt Reactor Chemistry

This document summarizes the large program of chemical research and development which led to selection of fuel and coolant compositions for the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) and for subsequent reactors of this type. Chemical behavior of the LiF-BeFrZrFrUF4 fuel mixture and behavior of fission products during power operation of MSRE are presented. A discussion of the chemical reactions w...

LOW TEMPERATURE MOLTEN SALT SYNTHESIS OF NANO CRYSTALLINE MgAl2O4 POWDER

Abstract: composition of MgO and nano boehmite. The reactant and potassium chloride, as the reaction media, were fired at800-1000 °C at different dwell times (0.5-5 h) in the ambient atmosphere. After washing and filtration, the spinel nanopowder was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) techniques. It was demonstrated tha...

The Molten Salt Reactor Adventure

A personal history of the development of molten-salt reactors in the United States is presented. The initial goal was an aircraft propulsion reactor, and a molten fluoride-fueled Aircraft Reactor Experiment was operated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1954. In 1956, the objective shifted to civilian nuclear power, and reactor concepts were developed using a circulating UF4-ThF4 fuel, graphi...