Thermal conductivity of high temperature fluoride molten salt determined by Laser Flash method (CAT#: STEM-PPA-0055-WXH)

Introduction

Molten salt reactor (MSR) is regarded as one of the most promising candidates as the next generation nuclear plant project, and the interest to the MSR has been renewed recently. The heat generated in the reactor core is transferred by the molten salt for industrial applications. As heat storage and transfer media applied in MSR, molten salt must satisfy a number of requirements, such as low neutron capture section, chemical stability at high temperature (>1073 K) and intense radiation, low melting temperature and high boiling temperature, large specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity, low viscosity and vapor pressure. Molten fluorides can satisfy all above requirements and have been used in the aircraft reactor experiment (ARE) and the molten salt reactor experiment (MSRE) since 1950s.