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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.
Jorge Arpa, Jose Ramos, Juan R. Villar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 3 | December 1988 | Pages 334-343
Technical Paper | Fifth International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34146
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Three applications of the RETRAN code at Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to enhance plant operational margin and support training simulators are presented. Two of the applications are intended to increase plant availability, one by reducing the frequency of unnecessary reactor trips on turbine trips during power ascension and the other by providing a simple relationship between electrical frequency and reactor coolant flow. This relationship is then used in selecting electrical load-shedding schemes. The third application is in the area of training simulators, where special RETRAN best-estimate analyses have been used as part of the acceptance testing program for the FPL simulators.