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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.
N. Abe, M. Kato, H. Nagasaka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 3 | September 1985 | Pages 335-342
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A15960
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Upper plenum level oscillatory phenomena were observed in boiling water reactor upper plenum mixing experiments. These phenomena were due to the multidimensional interaction of a highly subcooled spray water injected into the upper plenum with a twophase mixture and vapor. Analysis of these phenomena was performed by TRAC-BD1, which is based on a multidimensional, nonhomogeneous, nonequilibrium, two-phase flow model to assess its predictive capability. It was found that TRAC-BD1 can predict upper plenum level oscillatory phenomena by using a simple upper plenum model that accounts for the interaction of a highly subcooled spray with vapor and a two-phase mixture.