The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based...
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accident.[citation needed] Reactors containing molten thorium salt, called liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR), would tap the thorium fuel cycle. Private...
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(PWRs) Molten salt reactors (MSRs), including liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs). Molten salt breeder reactors, or MSBRs, use thorium to breed more fissile...
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breeding from thorium had occurred. A liquid fluoride thorium reactor is also planned as a thorium thermal breeder. Liquid-fluoride reactors may have attractive...
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thorium fuel cycle and particularly liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs). He first researched thorium reactors while working at NASA, while evaluating...
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reactor simulating the neutronic "kernel" of a type of inherently safer epithermal thorium breeder reactor called the liquid fluoride thorium reactor...
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Integral fast reactor Stable salt reactor Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Breeder reactor Small modular reactor List of nuclear reactors Welcome to Generation...
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A liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor, or LMR is a type of nuclear reactor where the primary coolant is a liquid metal. Liquid metal cooled reactors were...
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Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment, was built to confirm the feasibility of the Liquid fluoride thorium reactor, a thermal spectrum reactor which would breed...
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FLiBe (category Nuclear reactor coolants)
molten salt made from a mixture of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2). It is both a nuclear reactor coolant and solvent for fertile or fissile...
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that is bred from thorium-232 as part of the thorium fuel cycle. Uranium-233 was investigated for use in nuclear weapons and as a reactor fuel. It has been...
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Laboratory's Molten Salt Reactor Experiment – liquid fluoride thorium reactor. It was being developed by the Japanese company International Thorium Energy & Molten-Salt...
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The light-water reactor (LWR) is a type of thermal-neutron reactor that uses normal water, as opposed to heavy water, as both its coolant and neutron moderator;...
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natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in situ within...
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sodium-cooled fast reactor is a fast neutron reactor cooled by liquid sodium. The initials SFR in particular refer to two Generation IV reactor proposals, one...
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Section 5.3, WASH 1097 "The Use of Thorium in nuclear power reactors", available as a PDF from Liquid-Halide Reactor Documents database: http://www.energyfromthorium...
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a significant impact on electricity markets." Thorium fuel cycle Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Thorium Energy Alliance Patel, Sonal (2023-02-01). "Floating...
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directly using depleted uranium, natural uranium, thorium, spent fuel removed from light water reactors, or some combination of these materials. The concept...
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modular reactors based on liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology (a type of molten salt reactor). The name "Flibe" comes from FLiBe, a Fluoride salt...
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advanced heavy-water reactor (AHWR) or AHWR-300 is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that burns thorium in its fuel core. It...
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The advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) is a type of nuclear reactor designed and operated in the United Kingdom. These are the second generation of British...
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Nuclear fuel (redirect from Liquid metal nuclear fuel)
hundred degrees C. In some molten salt-fueled reactor designs, such as the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR), this fuel salt is also the coolant; in...
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TMSR-LF1 (category Graphite moderated reactors)
TMSR-LF1 (液态燃料钍基熔盐实验堆; "liquid fuel thorium-based molten salt experimental reactor") is a 2 MWt molten salt reactor (MSR) pilot plant located in northwest...
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A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with...
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pure liquid actinide metal. Cooling is provided by molten lead in a separate loop. It is a fast breeder reactor, and can use both uranium and thorium to...
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fuel in the Madras power reactors and reprocessed in Tarapur. Some of the uranium is created from the transmutation of thorium bundles that are also placed...
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Reactor database. Corrosion problems associated with sulfate base solutions limited their application as breeders of uranium-233 fuels from thorium....
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products also had similar accounting problems. See liquid fluoride thorium reactor and molten salt reactor for more information. The IMSR also has multiple...
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band Edgewater Lifter (comics), a Marvel Comics character Liquid fluoride thorium reactor, shortened to "LFTR" and pronounced "lifter" Tappet, part of...
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In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but is now simply...
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