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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.
VIjay Chatoorgoon, Geoffrey R. Dimmick, Michael B. Carver, William N. Selander, Mamdouh Shoukri
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 3 | June 1992 | Pages 366-378
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34666
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While subcooled boiling at high pressures has been studied extensively, the phenomenon is, as yet, not sufficiently characterized at low pressures. The application of four methods to predict subcooled boiling void fraction measured in an experiment aimed at separateeffect measurements of subcooled void condensation and generation is discussed. The methods include a simple correlation and a hierarchy of three models, each of which addresses void generation and condensation at a different level of complexity. Comparisons are given between the experimental data and results from each of the prediction methods.