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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.
Jin Ho Song, Hyun-Joung Jo, Kwang Soon Ha, Jaehoon Jung, Sang Mo An, Hwan Yeol Kim, S. T. Revankar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 195 | Number 1 | July 2016 | Pages 29-43
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-128
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A scaling method is proposed for the design of a reduced-scale experimental facility for testing the performance of a newly proposed filtered containment venting system (FCVS). A full-height facility at prototypic pressure and temperature conditions is chosen to preserve the fundamental physics such as depressurization rate, two-phase mixture level, and scrubbing process. The geometrical similarities in terms of the ratio of the cross-sectional area and geometric and frictional loss coefficient are preserved for each component in the FCVS. Scaling of the number of components in the reduced-scale test facility is suggested using the prototypic components of the FCVS including a venturi scrubber, a cyclone, a metal fiber filter, and a molecular sieve. This approach minimizes scaling distortions. A properly scaled test facility allows testing in a wide range of initial and boundary conditions such that it can predict the full performance of the prototypic FCVS.