Breed-and-burn fuel cycle in molten salt reactors

Progress in the Science and Technology of Nuclear Reactors using Molten Salts

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Table 1

Candidate fluoride and chloride fuel salts considered in this work and their properties.

Composition	[mol%]	Density [g cm⁻³]		Melting

		Total	Act.	Temp.
LiF–ThF₄	72–28	4.59	2.84	565 °C
LiF–UF₄	73–27	4.67	2.89	500 °C
NaCl − UCl₃	68–32	3.32	1.66	520 °C
NaCl − UCl₃	60–40	3.64	1.97	590 °C
NaCl − UCl₃ − UCl₄	15–15–70	3.64	2.22	500 °C
UCl₄ –UCl₃	80–20	3.79	2.38	545 °C
UCl₄	100	3.56	2.20	590 °C
NaCl–ThCl₄	50–50	3.15	1.61	375 °C
NaCl–ThCl₄–UCl_3	50–25–25	3.16	1.67	500 °C
ThCl₄	100	3.82	2.33	770 °C

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