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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.
Cecil V. Parks, Robert M. Westfall, B. L. Broadhead
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 660-678
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Remote Technology and Engineering / Criticality Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27718
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Beginning in 1984, the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Defueling Design Team requested Oak Ridge National Laboratory to supply criticality safety analyses in support of the licensing activities for all fuel removal operations. The computational methods and basic analytic models employed in the work are discussed, the areas where computational analyses were requested are reviewed, and the pertinent results are tabulated and discussed.