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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.
Y. Naito, M. Mimura, M. Toba, R. Onuki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 1 | November 1979 | Pages 7-20
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32375
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The cell group constants in a light water moderated reactor have been computed to many lattice parameters, such as fuel rod diameter, lattice pitch, isotopic content, moderator density, temperature, These group constants are found to be able to be fitted by such limited new variables as moderator-to-fuel-volume ratio, fuel optical length, and so on. By this expression, the number of fitting coefficients to be conserved for cell calculation becomes small. The fitting coefficients are summarized in a table called the “Few-Group Constants Table” (FG-Table). By using this table, many kinds of cell constants, such as burnup- or moderator-density-dependent constants, become easy to obtain. To check the reliability of the present approach, calculated values with the table are compared with zero power experimental data, which show a good agreement with each other.