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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.
Reijo Munther, Juhani Vihavainen, Heikki Kalli, Jyrki Kouhia, Vesa Riikonen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 235-243
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35400
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The RELAP5 calculation results for a series of gravity-driven emergency core-cooling (ECC) experiments with the parallel channel test loop (PACTEL) facility are provided. The simulated accident was a small-break loss-of-coolant accident with a break in one hot leg of the three loops of the facility. The ECC flow was provided from a core makeup tank (CMT) located at a higher elevation than the main part of the primary system. The CMT was pressurized with pipings from the pressurizer and a cold leg. The tests indicate that rapid condensation in the CMT influences the ECC flow. The experimental results are numerically analyzed using the RELAP5/MOD3.1 code. The calculations show good agreement with the tests except in the modeling of rapid condensation.