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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.
Gung-Huei Chou, Jin-Yeh Hsu, Houng-June Chao
Nuclear Technology | Volume 113 | Number 2 | February 1996 | Pages 232-241
Technical Paper | Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35191
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An on-line computerized system for balance-of-plant performance monitoring and analysis has been developed at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research. This system was developed on an IBM PC/AT and implemented at Taiwan Power Company’s Chinshan nuclear power station. Test data acquisition and processing, as well as on-line performance monitoring and analysis, are the major functions of the system. The whole system is actuated on an integrated, menu-driven environment presented in either a Chinese or an English mode. It can carry out turbine cycle performance monitoring and analysis during normal operation. It yields cost-benefit analysis results of component degradation after finding out the thermal deficiency or lost power generation problems.