The Facility to Alleviate Salt Technology Risks (FASTR) is a versatile, high-temperature (>600°C) molten chloride salt test facility designed to enable a variety of testing to advance the Generation 3 concentrating solar power molten salt technology. FASTR includes a salt preparation system and a forced-flow test loop with a suite of instrumentation. The FASTR loop can operate at 725°C with flow rates of 3-7 kg/s, and it includes heated and cooled sections and swappable components to facilitate testing of future vendor-supplied hardware. The salt preparation system supplies large batches of clean salt for use in the FASTR forced-circulation loop. This report summarizes the shakedown and initial operation of the FASTR forced-circulation loop through December 2022.