Paris-based nuclear startup Naarea has announced the development of a method for synthesising key salts as a step in advancing molten salt reactor technology.
The company said in a statement that a proliferation-resistant pyrochemical method for the creation of NaCl-PuCl3 salts came as a result of a partnership with its Innovation Molten Salt Lab (IMSLab) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).
Naarea said that the work successfully demonstrated that bubbling gas through a mixture of sodium chloride (NaCl) and plutonium oxide (PuO2) at high temperatures enables the quantitative dissolution of plutonium oxide to form plutonium chloride-based salt.