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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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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.
General Chairs:
Massimiliano Fratoni (University of California – Berkeley)
Christopher Perfetti (University of New Mexico)
Assistant General Chairs:
Cenk Guler (Westinghouse)
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Technical Program Chairs:
Eva Davidson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Brendan Kochunas (University of Michigan)
Luka Snoj (IJS)
Assistant Technical Program Chairs:
Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
Go Chiba (Hokudai U.)
Paul Cosgrove (Cambridge U.)
Ser Gi Hong (Hanyang U.)
Mathieu Hursin (EPFL)
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Ishita Triveda (INL)
Emily Shemon (ANL)
Diversity Chair:
Alexis Maldonado (LANL)
Student Chair:
Tatiana Siaraferas (UC Berkeley)
Workshop Chair:
Rike Bostelmann (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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