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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.
Joseph A. Naser, Bal Raj Sehgal, Lance J. Agee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 3 | September 1981 | Pages 311-321
First International Retran Meeting | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32776
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The capabilities of the RETRAN-02 code have been extended to allow it to perform pressurized water reactor anticipated transient without scram (ATWS) calculations. In particular, the steam property functional fits have been extended to 41.4 MPa (6000 psia) and a better steam generator simulation capability using local conditions heat transfer has been incorporated. The local conditions heat transfer model and alternate steam generator modeling techniques are described. A loss-of-feedwater ATWS was performed with RETRAN-02 and compared with vendor calculations with excellent agreement.