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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.
S. Barsali, R. Bovalini, F. Fineschi, B. Guerrini, S. Lanza, M. Mazzini, R. Mirandola
Nuclear Technology | Volume 23 | Number 2 | August 1974 | Pages 146-156
Reactor | Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31448
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Twelve experimental runs on molecular iodine removal by sprays were carried out in the 95m3 PSICO 10 model containment vessel (MCV). Both service water and a water solution containing 1% sodium thiosulphate were sprayed through two different nozzles; the elemental iodine removal half-times obtained by spraying service water do not differ greatly from those found by spraying thiosulphate solution. The sprayed solution was, in some cases, recirculated for a period ranging from 1 to 11 h without any release of iodine to the atmosphere. Some runs were performed with fractions of the MCV volume not sprayed. The elemental iodine removal half-times in the sprayed and unsprayed regions do not essentially differ.