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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.
A. K. Ahluwalia, A. M. C. Chan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 93 | Number 2 | February 1991 | Pages 252-259
Technical Note | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34509
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A newly developed computer code, FONS-AERO, is used to simulate the flow parameters of a carrier gas and an aerosol in an idealized vented containment during a blowdown. The code is a transient, multidimensional turbulent flow code that can handle gas and aerosol flows simultaneously under various flow situations. Complicated boundary conditions can also be readily incorporated. Some initial results of aerosol distribution in the containment and sensitivity to aerosol types are presented.