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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.
Siegfried Langenbuch, Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, Kiril Velkov
Nuclear Technology | Volume 142 | Number 2 | May 2003 | Pages 124-136
Technical Paper | OECD/NRC MSLB Benchmark | doi.org/10.13182/NT03-A3378
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Pressurized Water Reactor Main Steam Line Break (MSLB) Benchmark has been calculated for all three exercises by the coupled code system ATHLET-QUABOX/CUBBOX developed by Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS). The results obtained are presented, and a detailed comparison with other solutions of the benchmark is discussed. An attempt is made to explain the differences observed in the solutions by the different modeling of physical processes in the codes. The sensitivity of results on modeling features is also investigated. In addition, the effect of different mapping schemes between fuel assemblies of the core loading and the thermal-fluid dynamics on the accuracy of three-dimensional (3-D) neutronics solutions is studied. The results for the MSLB transient are also evaluated to compare 3-D neutronics and point-kinetics solutions in view of integral and local parameters. Thus, the experiences with the coupled code system ATHLET-QUABOX/CUBBOX during the MSLB benchmark activity are summarized.