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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.
Isaac Saldivar, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 204 | Number 2 | November 2018 | Pages 172-183
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2018.1470865
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Applications of aerosol dynamics include modeling cloud formation and pollution in atmospheric sciences, inhalation and radiation doses in health physics, and particle transport and contamination in nuclear safety. To improve the fidelity of computed aerosol evolution to realistic process models and phenomena, efforts have been directed at the use of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) technique. This paper first verifies the results obtained from the DSMC technique against a known analytical solution of a specialized case in which the evolution of a purely growing aerosol is coupled to its environment. Next, it applies the DSMC technique to the evolution of aerosol particles undergoing condensation, coagulation, and deposition as coupled to the environment.