Msre Design and Operations Report. Part Vi. Operating Safety Limits for the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment

Conceptual Design of Engineering-Scale Molten Salt Spill Tests to Support Molten Salt Reactor Licensing

“…Testing every possible combination of values provided in Table 3 would require 36 individual runs; the final test matrix for a particular salt composition should be created to bound the initial spill conditions by considering a few postulated spill scenarios. The low values for spill mass and flow rate in Table 3 are near the values that were selected for the "maximum credible accident" scenario for the MSRE (Beall and Guymon, 1965;Beall et al, 1964). The high values for the spill mass and flow rate describe an alternative spill scenario in which a large amount of salt rapidly impinges on the catch pan.…”

Modeling Molten Salt Spreading and Heat Transfer using MELTSPREAD – Model Development Updates

“…A spill scenario was modeled using MELTSPREAD that was inspired by the "maximum credible accident" of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE), in which a small fraction of the total salt volume is spilled onto the containment floor. This scenario is described in Beall et al (1964) and Beall and Guymon (1965). For the MSRE spill scenario, the total volume of spilled salt was limited to 4 L at an assumed leakage rate of 12 L per hr -1 , the total volume of fuel salt was 70 ft 3 (approximately 2000 L), and the total cell volume was 18,000 ft 3 (approximately 500,000 L).…”