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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.
Lucy Wu Person
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 3 | March 1977 | Pages 320-325
Technical Note | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31756
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A number of sodium fire experiments have been analyzed using the SPOOL-FIRE code, which is available from the Argonne Code Center. Good agreement is observed between theoretical calculation and experimental results. The same experiments have been analyzed previously by workers using the SPRAY-1 and CACECO codes, and our results are compatible with the results from these codes. SPOOL-FIRE is a fast-running code and can handle both sodium spray fire and pool fire simultaneously. Results of this analysis suggest specific areas where experiments are needed to further our understanding of the mechanism of sodium burning.