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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.
Gunji Nishio, Noboru Yamazaki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 102 | Number 2 | May 1993 | Pages 232-251
Technical Paper | Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34819
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The FACE computer code was developed to calculate postulated solvent fire behavior in the extraction process of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The FACE code calculates temperature, pressure, and off-gasflow rate by one- and two-dimensional thermofluid analyses. The code uses this information to evaluate the safety of the associated air ventilation system as demonstrated by its ability to confine the fire-generated radioactive particles by transport, deposition, and filtration of smoke. The mathematical models in FACE were verified by comparison of FACE calculations with the results of Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute fire demonstration tests simulating a hypothetical solvent fire accident in the extraction process.