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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 J. Babel, Barry H. Brosey, Carl H. Distenfeld
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 2 | October 1989 | Pages 470-477
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Health Physics and Environmental Release / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27739
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The effort involved in determining the location and quantity of reactor fuel remaining in the nuclear auxiliary systems of the auxiliary/fuel handling building at Three Mile Island Unit 2 is discussed. The overall approach identifying the most likely locations for reactor fuel, the gamma-ray spectrometry system used, and the radiation transport computer codes and numerical analysis techniques used is also discussed. The results of the measurements show that a very small quantity of reactor fuel remains in the makeup and purification and the waste disposal liquid systems.