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Utlak, Stephen

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Status of the salt thermochemical database, MSTDB

The CALculation of PHAsed Diagram (CALPHAD) approach to thermodynamic assessments was used to develop the 1 st generation Molten Salt Thermodynamic Database, or MSTDB. It currently contains 21 elements with models for 54 molten salt binary solutions, 26 ternary molten salt solutions, 14 solid solutions, and 140 multicomponent, stoichiometric compounds. The effort continues with the aim of extending MSTDB to include all the elements that will exist during operation of a molten salt reactor to model the thermochemical behavior with burnup along with additives and corrosion products.

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