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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.
Juan M. Cajigas
Nuclear Technology | Volume 90 | Number 3 | June 1990 | Pages 316-325
Technical Paper | RELAP/MOD2 / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34397
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A version of the RELAP/MOD2 code has been developed to allow the direct calculation of hydrodynamic piping load histories. The code allows the calculation of piping forcing functions within the same computer run used to evaluate the transient thermofluid conditions. A description of this code, RELAP5-FORCE MOD2 is provided. The accuracy and validity of RELAP5-FORCE MOD2 are demonstrated by comparisons to benchmark test data.