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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.
Robert M. Kemper, Christine M. Vertes
Nuclear Technology | Volume 91 | Number 1 | July 1990 | Pages 118-128
Technical Paper | Safety of Next Generation Power Reactor / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34448
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Emergency core cooling system performance analyses that demonstrate compliance with the 10CFR50.46 final acceptance criteria have been performed for the unique Westinghouse AP600 advanced pressurized water reactor. The AP600 plant features a low power density core, canned-motor reactor coolant pumps, passive safeguards systems, and an automatic depressurization system. It exhibits exceptional loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) performance. A spectrum of small-break LOCA cases successfully depressurize while exhibiting no core uncovery; the maximum cladding temperature in each case is the initial steady-state value. The calculated peak cladding temperature for a design-basis large-break LOCA is only 1061 K at the design total peaking factor of 2.40.