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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.
G. Nash
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 13-20
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32551
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Measurements of steam bubble velocities and voidage have been made in the relatively small Core B of the Lingen boiling water reactor. The results of axial scanning in one radial position have produced experimental values of slip ratio, power (from a traveling in-core probe), voidage, and coolant mean density over the core height for this position. This one set of distributions has enabled us to test current U.K. Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) models of subcooled boiling and slip ratio against experiment. From the comparisons, it appears that we can predict the onset of voiding well. Of four slip options tested, the current one used by UKAEA computer codes HAMBO and JOSHUA (Bankoff-Jones) predicts too high a slip ratio. A closer fit to experiment comes from the new Bryce flow-dependent slip option. Any changes in the modeling must be checked, however, with coupled thermal-hydraulics/neutronics computations.