Most high-temperature reactors use graphite as a moderator and structural material. This includes high-temperature gas-cooled reactors with helium cooling and TRi-structural ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel particles embedded in graphite, as well as fluoride salt–cooled high-temperature reactors with clean salt coolant and TRISO fuel particles embedded in graphite and thermal spectrum molten salt reactors with a graphite moderator and fuel dissolved in the salt. The largest volume radioactive waste stream from these reactors is the irradiated graphite.
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