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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.
Steven J. Ganthner, A. Frank Wenger
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 3 | December 1988 | Pages 302-309
Technical Paper | Fifth International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34143
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Carolina Power and Light Company has completed a set of benchmarks of a RETRAN computer model representing its boiling water reactor Brunswick Unit 1 Nuclear Power Plant. These benchmarks consist of simulating five transients initiated during the Brunswick 1 Startup Test Program and comparing the calculated plant response to data taken during each transient. A description of the methods used to generate the one-dimensional kinetics input is provided along with a brief description of the RETRAN model. The results of the benchmarks are presented and the portions of the model qualified by the results are summarized. The benchmarks show that the model is capable of accurately simulating a wide range of transients. The Peach Bottom turbine trip benchmarks are being performed to verify the predicted neutronic response for conditions representative of those encountered during licensing transients.