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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.
Hiroshi Tochihara, Eiji Ochiai, Tadashi Hasegawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 58 | Number 2 | August 1982 | Pages 310-317
Technical Paper | Analyse | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32939
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The ex-core detector response in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) depends on not only power level but also core power distribution. Therefore, it is important to precisely calculate the assembly-wise spatial weighting factors for the ex-core detectors. Usually these factors are calculated with the one-dimensional transport code and point kernel calculational method, in which the neutron scattering effect outside of reactor vessel is neglected. But when the scattering effect is estimated to be rather big, we calculate the assembly-wise spatial weighting factors using the two-dimensional transport code, which includes the scattering effect. Consequently, we found that the weighting factors of peripheral assemblies that are remote from the detector but close to reactor vessel are rather big in comparison with the previous results. When we calculate the detector response during one control rod insertion test of three-loop PWR core using these weighting factors, the agreement between calculation and measurement is very good. A simple point kernel calculational method developed instead of the two-dimensional transport calculation that consumes much computer time.