Molten-salt reactor Russia

The presentations also outlined certain enabling technologies that may be common for several different reactor lines. For example, coated particle or pebble bed type fuel is considered for use not only in high temperature gas cooled reactors, such as PBMR and HTR-PM, but also in several innovative water cooled, molten salt cooled, and even lead-bismuth cooled SMRs, such as PFPWR50 (Japan), VKR-MT (Russia), perhaps FBNR (Brazil), MARS (Russia), and CHTR (India). Some projections for the advanced high temperature structural materials of... 

Some technologies may be common between primary and secondary circuits of different SMRs. A remarkable example is the flibe secondary circuit of the STAR-H2 reactor, which is a high temperature molten salt loop that transfers heat from the lead-based primary circuit to the multi-application balance of plant. A molten salt technology for such loop may have common points with the primary coolant technology for a molten salt cooled MARS reactor of Russia. 

MSR developments in Russia on the Molten Salt Actinide Recycler and Transmuter aim to be used as efficient burners of transuranic waste from spent UOX and MOX LWR fuel without any uranium and thorium support and also with it. Other advanced reactor concepts are being studied, which use the liquid salt technology as a primary coolant for fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors, and coated particle fuels similar to high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. 

Other countries, including the EU, Erance, Russia, India, Japan, China, and South Korea, also placed efforts in MSR design development [1,5,14—21]. Recent developments concerned Generation IV reactor designs, started in 2000 in Russia on 2400-MWt MOSART [1] and in 2005 in Erance on 3000-MWt MSER (Molten Salt... 

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