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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.
Gerhard Deuster, Peter Zenker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | April 1978 | Pages 35-40
Technical Paper | Low-Temperature Nuclear Heat / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A16152
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Todays marketable light water reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants allow an appropriate design to extract heat for the purpose of district heating. Besides the desired reduction of thermal emission, the electrical output will also decrease. With helium-cooled lugh-temperature reactors or modified LWRs, nuclear generation of low-temperature heat can possibly be made more economical The presence of widespread district heat networks would allow distribution of more than 1000 MJ/s from these power plants. The desired saving of primary energy, however, can be attained only by high investments.