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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. G. Loomis, R. W. Shumway
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 426-433
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32901
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Transition boiling heat transfer data from Semiscale Mod-3 gravity feed reflood experiments have been compared to existing transition boiling correlations. The existing correlations were found to be inadequate for predicting the Semiscale rod bundle data; therefore, a new correlation for transition boiling was developed. The new correlation is applicable for boiling water with stainless steel, electrically heated vertical rods in a pressure range of 138 to 414 kPa. When the new transition boiling correlation is combined with the Berenson film boiling correlation, a good fit to Semiscale reflood data results.