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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.
E. Lin, Y. H. Cheng, J. K. Hsiue
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 3 | September 1981 | Pages 380-384
First International Retran Meeting | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32783
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Full power generator load rejection transient initiated in startup test was simulated. The measured data are retrieved from STARTREC tape. The calculated and measured data especially for parameters of system pressure, core heat flux, feedwater flow rate, reactor water level, core flow, and normalized power are compared. The results indicate that the RETRAN code can successfully predict the parameters.