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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.
Paul A. Smith
Nuclear Technology | Volume 92 | Number 3 | December 1990 | Pages 363-373
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A16237
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The results of a diffusion-sorption experiment, using simulated groundwater spiked with a mixture of I25I, 85Sr, and 137Cs, are modeled by a one-dimensional porous-medium approach in which sorption is described by Freundlich isotherms. The governing equations are solved analytically for the special case of a linear isotherm and numerically using the RANCH-DIFF computer code for nonlinear isotherms. A set of time-dependent ordinary differential equations is obtained using the Lagrange interpolation technique and is integrated by Gear’s variable-order predictor-corrector method. The analysis allows the diffusion coefficients and parameters of the Freundlich isotherms to be extracted from the experimental data. It is shown that the sorption behavior of 85Sr can be modeled successfully by a linear isotherm, using a sorption parameter consistent with batch-sorption tests. The behavior of 137Cs may be modeled by a nonlinear isotherm, but the amount of 137Cs sorbed is less than that anticipated from batch-sorption tests. Iodine-125 is assumed to be nonsorbing and is used to determine the porosity of the rock.