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China's Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangHe wrote in a paper published in the Chinese journal Nuclear Techniques. The commercial reactor (100 MW due to be started in 2030) designed by Yan and his colleagues would be only 3 meters tall and 2.5 meters wide, but could produce enough electricity to power town of 100,000 inhabitants.
Based on the research of molten salt reactor (MSR), a conceptual design of small MSR core with thermal power of 100 MWt is proposed to meet the power supply demand of small area. By adjusting the initial fuel load of the reactor core, the reactor can operate at full power for 1 250 days without refueling, and then batch process fuel at the end of its life.