ThorCon reactor

Safeguards Technology for Thorium Fuel Cycles: Research and Development Needs Assessment and Recommendations

“…This salt mixture is used in Flibe Energy's liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) design [26] as well as China's TMSR design [27]. Several other salts are potential candidates for MSRs such as the sodium fluoride and beryllium fluoride salt mixture proposed by ThorCon [28]; however, we decided to pursue FLiBe because of DOE's investment and other project interests in Flibe Energy's LFTR design. An MSR utilizing thorium can start the reactor either using a two-fluid design (a fuel salt, including LEU fluoride, and a blanket salt that includes thorium fluoride) or a single-fluid design (no blanket salt, thus the fuel salt contains both uranium fluoride and thorium fluoride).…”

“…[25][26][27][28] show the resulting mass concentrations. Section 2.3.5 presents a comparison of 233 U and 232 U inventories across reactor types.…”

The potential impact of Molten Salt Reactors on the UK electricity grid

“…ThorCon USA Inc, a US based company founded in 2011, offers five fundamental features in its Thorium based MSR design. It must be fixable during operation, walk away safe, easily designed, rapidly deployable and importantly, cheaper than coal (Jorgensen, 2017;The Thorcon Team, 2018). Their mantra is that timely investments with the utilization of existing shipyard productivity and quality with already tested 1960s MSRE technology, can result in shorter reactor construction times.…”

Numerical Simulation of the Effect of Molten Salt Channel Number on Temperature Distribution in the Molten Salt Core Reactor

“…The development of the molten salt reactor concept continues to be proposed, including FUJI-MSR [9], integral MSR (Canadian Company Terrestrial Energy) [10], and Molten Salt Actinide Recycler and Transmuter (MOSART) [11,12]. Reactors with similar concepts to MSRE were also developed in China [4] and by ThorCon [13].…”