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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.
E. M. Dean, H. A. Larson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 57 | Number 1 | April 1982 | Pages 7-19
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A16182
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The EROS computer code is described as a verified program for operational safety reactor events in the normal operating or mild upset range of Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II). Following a description of EROS, several cases of verification of experimental events with the code are presented. The code is found to adequately represent reactivity perturbations in EBR-II including operational rod drops, control rod drops, and oscillator experiments. In addition, the code will interpret flow-coastdown (loss-of-pumping-power) events with great accuracy.