Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE)
Reactor de sales fundidas MSRE
- Date
- 1965 · confidence high
- Place
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
- Credited to
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Alvin Weinberg)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A 7.4 MW thermal reactor in which the fuel was a molten fluoride salt. It ran on uranium-235 and later on uranium-233, showing the viability of the thorium cycle.
It went critical in June 1965; the programme ended in 1969 for lack of funding.
What it led to
- next-generation molten salt reactor projects
- the thorium fuel cycle
- less risk of core meltdown