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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|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Paul J. Amico
Alternate Chair:
Katrina Groth
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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Insights, Limits, and Projections Regarding EDF's First Heat Wave PSA
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Cecile Luzoir (EDF R&D), François Cherpin (EDF), Diego Huescar (EDF), Manon Jouve (EDF)
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On Supporting the Assessment and Evaluation of Protection against External Hazards Using PSA
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Tamas Siklossy (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institu), Attila Bareith (NUBIKI Nuclear Safety Research Institu)
Implications of License Renewal of Aging NPPs: A Case Study on the Impact of External Hazards on an Aging Containment Building
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Akram S. Batikh (NCSU), Yahya A. Alzahrani (NCSU), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Correlation Between Weather Alerts and Grid Component Failures for Grid Alert
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Steven Prescott (INL), Ronald Gonzales (INL), Kurt Vedros (INL), Daniel Nevius (INL), Bjorn Vaagensmith (INL), Jared Nielson (INL), Amara Tariq (INL)
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Seismic and Non-Seismic External Event PSA of the Slovak NPPs with VVER440 Reactors
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Zoltan Kovacs (RELKO Ltd), Pavol Hlavac (RELKO Ltd), Robert Spenlinger (RELKO Ltd)