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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.
Jinfeng Zhou, Qingbiao Shen, Xiuquan Sun
Nuclear Technology | Volume 127 | Number 1 | July 1999 | Pages 113-122
Technical Paper | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2988
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Various cross sections of the p+natPb reaction are calculated in the 5- to 300-MeV energy region based on nuclear reaction models, i.e., the optical, evaporation, and exciton models, and direct reaction theory. Comparison of the calculated results with the experimental data shows that our calculations are quite reasonable. Excitation functions of some long-lived radioactive nuclei and neutron multiplicity are predicted. For medium-energy, proton-induced natPb fission, an empirical formula is developed.