Molten-salt reactor fuel reprocessing

Fluid Fueled Reactors. These concepts include the Molten Salt Reactor, the Molten Chloride Reactor, and aqueous solutions. Online refueling allows high capacity factors and low source terms. Online processing reduces fission product inventory. However, the possibility of selective removal of an essentially pure fissile stream during online reprocessing is a concern. These concepts can have strong negative temperature coefficients of reactivity... 

These reactors can tx either one or two rej> ioii and, depending on the size of the reactor core and the thorinra fluoride concentration, can cover a wide raiif e of fuel inventorie. i, hrex dinj ratios, and fuel reprocessing. schedules. The chief virtues of this class of molten-salt reactor are that the design is based on a well-developed technology and that the u. jo of a simple fuel cycle contributes to nnluced costs. 

D-plan Dry reprocessing of spent fuel and target/blanket salts including not only molten salt but solid fuel of ordinary reactors such as the LWR, fast breeder reactors (FBR), heavy water reactors (HWR), etc. for producing molten fluoride fuel salt of the FUJI or target/blanket salt of the AMSB ... 

Among other applications, the electrochemical-based separation of actinides and lanthanides from molten salt media seems to be a suitable method (together with molten salt/liquid metal extraction) for the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel in proposed future types of nuclear reactors. 

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