Deployment method and systems for molten salt reactors
AssigneeNatura Resources LLC
InventorDerek Haas
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Abstract
A deployment system for a molten salt reactor includes a reactor module, a cooling module, a coolant preparation module, a fuel shipping module, and a fuel preparation module. Each of the reactor module, the cooling module, the coolant preparation module, the fuel shipping module, and the fuel preparation module may be supplied to a deployment site. Using the coolant preparation module, a coolant salt held within the reactor module may be transferred to the cooling module. Using the fuel preparation module, a fuel salt held within the fuel shipping module may be transferred to the reactor module.
Claims10
A method of deploying a molten salt reactor, the method comprising
- shipping an integral molten salt reactor to a deployment site, the integral molten salt reactor comprising an integrally constructed vessel, wherein the integrally constructed vessel is packed with a coolant salt such that the coolant salt fills volumes of the integrally constructed vessel that would otherwise be filled by a fissile material containing fuel salt during operation of the integral molten salt reactor, and wherein the coolant salt is a non-fissile containing salt;
- shipping, separate from the reactor module, a fissile material containing fuel salt within a fuel shipping assembly to the deployment site;
- shipping, separate from the integral molten salt reactor and the fuel shipping assembly, a primary coolant loop, a coolant assembly, and a fuel preparation assembly to the deployment site;
- transferring, at the deployment site, using the coolant assembly, the coolant salt held within the integrally constructed vessel to the primary coolant loop;
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- transferring, at the deployment site, using the fuel preparation assembly, the fissile material containing fuel salt held within the fuel shipping assembly to the integrally constructed vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.