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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.
Francesco D'auria, Giorgio Maria Galassi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 90 | Number 3 | June 1990 | Pages 340-355
Technical Paper | RELAP/MOD2 / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34399
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Assessment of the RELAP5/MOD2 code on the basis of experiments performed in a pressurized water reactor simulator, the LOBI/MOD2 facility at the European Research Center of Ispra in Italy is reported. In particular, significant experience gained in the analysis of two small-break loss-of-coolant accidents (tests A2-81 and A1-83), a steam generator tube rupture (test BL-21), a natural circulation (test A2-77A), and four transients (tests A2-90, BT-00, BT-01, and BT-03) is discussed.