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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.
Yassin A. Hassan, Omar Rais
Nuclear Technology | Volume 95 | Number 1 | July 1991 | Pages 77-86
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34569
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The current version of the RELAP5/MOD2 computer code underpredicts the degree of superheat in the secondary side of the steam generator bundles. Many studies have concluded that this is due to overprediction of the interphase drag force. New interphase drag correlations have been developed for the bubbly and slug regimes. These correlations were implemented in the current version of the RELAP5/MOD2 computer code. Steady-state conditions for 65, 75, and 100% power loads of 30-tube once-through steam generator tests are simulated. The calculated primary- and secondary-side temperature profiles show that the new interphase drag correlations achieve closer agreement with experimental data than the temperature profiles of the original code.