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LLNL, Ampera partner to develop thorium-based TRISO fuel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has formed a strategic partnership with Ampera to develop the company’s nuclear fuel concept through a project named THUNDER, for Thorium Unimodal Droplet Ejection for Reactors.
The focus of THUNDER is fabricating TRISO made with kernels of thorium rather than the usual uranium. LLNL and Ampera will evaluate and optimize liquid metal–jetting technology to produce highly uniform, spherical kernels of thorium-232 for later processing into TRISO fuel.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Purdue/Wisconsin
Session Chair:
Jonathen Facemire
Alternate Chair:
David Grabaskas
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Establishing Risk-Informed Safety Management at a New Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institute)
Paper
Risk Informing the Nuclear Enterprise: New Frontiers
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Sunil D. Weerakkody (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Michael Franovich (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Regulatory Use and Priorities for PRA standards
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Matthew Humberstone (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Jeffery Wood (US NRC), Hanh Phan (US NRC)
Application of the "Failure Memory" Approach to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Event and Condition Analysis - Lessons Learned and Challenges
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Kevin Coyne (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Christopher Hunter (U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Presented by Matthew J. Humberstone (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Understanding Uncertainties in the Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors: Legal and Technological Revolutions
11:20–11:40AM CDT
George Joslin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Arden Rowell (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ha Bui (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Seyed Reihani (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Zahra Mohaghegh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
