Fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactors: Review of historical milestones, research status, challenges, and outlook

D Jiang, D Zhang, X Li, S Wang, C Wang, H Qin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (FHR) is a Generation IV nuclear energy
system with huge potential for further development. Owing to its unique advantages, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging small modular nuclear power reactors: A critical review

EMA Hussein - Physics Open, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the smallness, modularity and reactor-design aspects of emerging small
modular reactors (SMRs). It is shown that small (whether in physical size or power level) …

The role of nuclear energy in the carbon neutrality goal

L Liu, H Guo, L Dai, M Liu, Y Xiao, T Cong… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon neutrality has been committed by over 100 countries to avoid the severe
consequences of climate change caused by carbon emissions. As one of the key …

Applications of molten salt and progress of molten salt electrolysis in secondary metal resource recovery

X Xi, M Feng, L Zhang, Z Nie - International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy …, 2020 - Springer
Molten salt is an excellent medium for chemical reaction, energy transfer, and storage.
Molten salt innovative technologies should be developed to recover metals from secondary …

Fluoride-Salt-cooled high-Temperature Advanced Reactor (FuSTAR): An integrated nuclear-based energy production and conversion system

D Zhang, X Li, D Jiang, X Zhou, X Lv, S Yun, W Wu… - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on the analysis of energy structure and the development trends of advanced nuclear
energy technology, combining the complementary advantages of nuclear energy and other …

Design, optimization and thermodynamic analysis of SCO2 Brayton cycle system for FHR

S Yun, D Zhang, X Li, X Zhou, D Jiang, X Lv… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
The small modular fluorid-salt-cooled high temperature reactor has a higher core outlet
temperature, and the Rankine cycle cannot meet the design requirements of this type …

A review of molten salt reactor multi-physics coupling models and development prospects

J Wu, J Chen, X Cai, C Zou, C Yu, Y Cui, A Zhang… - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are one type of GEN-IV advanced reactors that adopt melt
mixtures of heavy metal elements and molten salt as both fuel and coolant. The liquid fuel …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a multiphysics model for the study of fuel compressibility effects in the Molten Salt Fast Reactor

E Cervi, S Lorenzi, A Cammi, L Luzzi - Chemical Engineering Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Compressible fluid dynamics is of great practical interest in many industrial applications,
ranging from chemistry to aeronautical industry, and to nuclear field as well. At the same …

Superstructure design and optimization on closed Brayton cycle system of fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature advanced reactor

S Yun, D Zhang, X Li, X He, W Tian, S Qiu, GH Su… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
To exploit the advantages of Fluoride-Salt-cooled high-Temperature Advanced Reactors
(FuSTAR) such as high temperature, inherent safety, compact structure, and modularization …

[HTML][HTML] Results from a multi-physics numerical benchmark for codes dedicated to molten salt fast reactors

M Tiberga, RGG de Oliveira, E Cervi, JA Blanco… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Verification and validation of multi-physics codes dedicated to fast-spectrum molten salt
reactors (MSR) is a very challenging task. Existing benchmarks are meant for single-physics …