armi.materials.thorium module

Thorium Metal

Data is from 1.

1

Thorium fuel cycle – Potential benefits and challenges, IAEA-TECDOC-1450 (2005). https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/te_1450_web.pdf

class armi.materials.thorium.Thorium

Bases: armi.materials.material.Material

name = 'Thorium metal'

String identifying the material

propertyValidTemperature = {'linear expansion': ((30, 600), 'K')}

Dictionary of valid temperatures over which the property models are valid in the format ‘Property Name’: ((Temperature_Lower_Limit, Temperature_Upper_Limit), Temperature_Units)

setDefaultMassFracs()

linearExpansion(Tk=None, Tc=None)

m/m/K from IAEA TECDOC 1450

thermalConductivity(Tk=None, Tc=None)

W/m-K from IAEA TE 1450

meltingPoint()

melting point in K from IAEA TE 1450

paramCollectionType

alias of armi.reactor.parameters.parameterCollections.MaterialParameterCollection