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Construction work on the TMSR is due to finish in August and a test run of equipment could start as early as September.Molten salt and thorium reactors are inherently safer and can have less nuclear waste (aka unused nuclear fuel.) Nuclear fuel is unused because even number isotopes are harder to split or react. The molten salt reactor will be powered by liquid thorium instead of uranium.SINAP has two streams of TMSR development – solid fuel (TRISO in pebbles or prisms/blocks) with once-through fuel cycle, and liquid fuel (dissolved in fluoride coolant) with reprocessing and recycle. The TMSR-LF timeline is about ten years behind the SF one.A TMSFR-LF fast reactor optimized for burning minor actinides is to follow.The TMSR-SF0 is one-third scale and has a 370 kW electric heat source with FLiNaK primary coolant at 650°C and FLiNaK secondary coolant.The 10 MWt TMSR-SF1 has 17% enriched TRISO fuel in 60mm pebbles, similar to HTR-PM fuel, and coolant at 630°C and low pressure.
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