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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.
Akira Yamaguchi, Hajime Niwa, Mitsuaki Yamaoka, Kazuyuki Tsukimori, Yoshio Shimakawa, Hisashi Ninokata, Kiyoto Aizawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 107 | Number 1 | July 1994 | Pages 23-37
Technical Paper | Special on ANP ’92 Conference / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A34995
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Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC), using computer codes developed and/or modified at PNC, has analyzed the Phase IIB passive safety test (PST) proposed for the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF). Major interests of PST are understanding core bowing and mitigating extremely low probability accidents. It is confirmed that the PNC code system is applicable to all aspects of the FFTF Phase IIB PST program. Results of the pretest analysis indicate that the proposed Phase IIB PST in FFTF can be devised to provide very useful data for validation of the analytical models that treat reactivity feedback effects due to core bowing. Recommendations to the test program are also made. With those analytical tools, future fast breeder reactor concepts will incorporate to a greater degree than earlier designs passive safety features on neutronic aspects as well as on thermohydraulic aspects.