TerraPower’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) project reached a major milestone with more than 1000 hours of isothermal loop pumped operations at the company’s lab in Bellevue, Washington. The fully-pumped molten salt loop is being used to test key components of the MCFR including the pump, heaters, freeze valves, flanges, and instrumentation, over time at a single temperature.
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