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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.
Mohamed Tahar Sissaoui, Guy Marleau, Daniel Rozon
Nuclear Technology | Volume 125 | Number 2 | February 1999 | Pages 197-212
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2942
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new model has been developed to evaluate the variation of few-group cross sections with local parameters and the history of the reactor. This model allows us to generate a coherent set of nuclear cross sections for a CANDU cell. The history dependence of the nuclide concentrations is taken into account by creating a pseudo-isotope, which includes actinides whose concentrations are strongly affected by local parameter history. Simple physical considerations lead us to determine the law of variation of the cross sections as a function of these parameters. They permit the computation of the cross sections for each state of the reactor core, using a unique library for each type of cell, which contains the nuclear cross sections computed at nominal conditions and feedback coefficients. To validate the feedback model, several operational situations were tested, and the results are compared to those given by a transport calculation using the DRAGON cell code.