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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.
D. P. Griggs, T. J. Honan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 3 | September 1981 | Pages 398-409
First International Retran Meeting | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32786
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Northeast Utilities Service Company has performed sensitivity studies useful for modeling a loss of feedwater transient using the RETRAN code. These studies modeled the Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, a four-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactor. One-, two-, and three-volume steam generator secondary models were used in conjunction with a common primary side nodalization in a two-loop model. The importance of flow area of the steam generator secondary side for this transient has been investigated. A comparison of one-and two-loop models was made, along with an assessment of the differences in response between the equilibrium and nonequilibrium pressurizer models.