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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.
V. Dykin, I. Pázsit
Nuclear Technology | Volume 193 | Number 3 | March 2016 | Pages 404-415
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-71
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The derivation of the point-kinetic component of the neutron noise in two-group diffusion theory in molten salt reactors (MSRs), based on different techniques, is discussed. First, the point-kinetic component is calculated by projecting the corresponding full space-frequency–dependent solution onto the static adjoint. Then, following the standard procedure in reactor physics, the point-kinetic solution is determined by solving the linearized point-kinetic equations. Both results are thereafter analyzed and compared quantitatively. Such a comparison clearly indicates that the solution obtained by the conventional derivation, i.e., from the point-kinetic equations, significantly differs from the exact one and is not able to reproduce certain features of the latter. Similar discrepancies between the two methods were also pointed out and confirmed earlier in one-group MSR calculations.