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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
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Purdue/Wisconsin
Session Chair:
Nathan O. Siu
Alternate Chair:
Jim Obrien
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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A Sequential Decision-Making Formulation of Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Joseph F. O'Leary (University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering), Mohamed Nassar (University of Maryland, College Park), Yunfei Zhao (University of Maryland, College Park)
Paper
Time-Dependent Accident Sequence Generation Method Using Optimized Simulations for Dynamic PSA
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Wooseok Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Junyong Bae (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Dongsan Kim (KAERI), Seung J. Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)
Novel Result Visualization for Dynamic PSA and New Modeling Features in EMRALD
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Steven Prescott (INL), Daniel Nevius (INL), Jared Nielson (Idaho National Labratory)
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Statechart Based Dynamic PRA Tool
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Valentin Rychkov (EDF R&D), Claudia Picoco (EDF R&D), Axel Terfloth (itemis AG)
Streamlined Simulation Using Scenario Weighting Method for Simulation and Storage Management
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Kyeong Seo Kim (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Junyong Bae (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Wooseok Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology)