Design and Control of a Fueled Molten Salt Cartridge Experiment for the Versatile Test Reactor

Progress on Near-Term Tasks for the Development of Advanced Reactor Mechanistic Source Term Modeling and Simulation Tools

“…Additionally, it is recommended to execute integral effects tests that can be designed and implemented in materials irradiation test reactors such as those proposed for the Versatile Test Reactor [66] and the Advanced Test Reactor [67]. Background: In FY21, it was recommended [1] that a sensitivity study be carried out to evaluate the impact of tritium releases from MSRs during transient scenarios, potentially including but not limited to various phenomena such as tritium generation, chemical speciation, advective flow, graphite diffusion and trapping, metal permeation, atmospheric dispersion, and the radiological consequences.…”