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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.
Ken Amano, Masayoshi Ishida
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | May 1986 | Pages 243-251
Technical Paper | Performance of Borosilicate Glass High-Level Waste Forms in Disposal System / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33789
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The two-dimensional vortex method is applied to the analysis of coolant temperature fluctuations caused by turbulent mixing to examine its applicability to the analysis of thermal striping in liquid-metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs). A coaxial jet flow having different temperatures streaming into a stagnant pool is simulated with the method. The calculated velocities are compared with the measurements of an air jet flow. Large scale eddy structures in the mixing region, which cause dynamic large temperature fluctuations, are observed in the numerical simulations. This vortex method can analyze temperature fluctuations caused by large eddies, and is shown to be a useful method for analyzing thermal striping phenomena in LMFBRs.