Salt wall in a molten salt reactor
AssigneeAlpha Tech Research Corp
InventorsJohn Benson, Matthew Memmott
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Abstract
Some embodiments include a method comprising: flowing a molten salt out of a molten salt reactor at a first temperature, heating the molten salt reactor to a second temperature above the melding point of the second salt mixture causing the second salt mixture to melt; flowing the second salt mixture out of the molten salt reactor; flowing a third salt mixture into the molten salt reactor; and cooling the molten salt reactor from the second temperature to a third temperature causing the third salt mixture to solidify on the interior surface of the housing. In some embodiments, the molten salt may include a first salt mixture comprising at least uranium. In some embodiments, the first temperature is a temperature above the melting point of the first salt mixture.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- flowing a molten salt out of a molten salt reactor at a first temperature, the molten salt comprising a first salt mixture comprising at least uranium, the first temperature being a temperature above the melting point of the first salt mixture, the molten salt reactor comprising a housing with a salt wall coating an interior surface of the housing, the salt wall comprising a second salt mixture, and the second salt mixture being solid at the first temperature;
- heating the molten salt reactor to a second temperature above the melting point of the second salt mixture causing the second salt mixture to melt;
- flowing the second salt mixture out of the molten salt reactor;
- flowing a third salt mixture into the molten salt reactor;
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- cooling the molten salt reactor from the second temperature to the third temperature causing the third salt mixture to solidify on the interior surface of the housing.
A method comprising:
- flowing a molten salt out of a molten salt reactor at a first temperature, the molten salt comprises a mixture including uranium and one or more salts selected from the group consisting of sodium fluoride, potassium fluoride, aluminum fluoride, zirconium fluoride, lithium fluoride, beryllium fluoride, rubidium fluoride, magnesium fluoride, and calcium fluoride;
- heating the molten salt reactor to a second temperature above the melting point of a second salt mixture disposed as a salt wall on a surface of the molten salt reactor causing the second salt mixture to melt;
- flowing the second salt mixture out of the molten salt reactor;
- flowing a third salt mixture into the molten salt reactor;
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- cooling the molten salt reactor from the second temperature to the third temperature causing the third salt mixture to solidify on the interior surface of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.