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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.
Dušan Kollár, Lubica Kollárová, Pavel Horváth
Nuclear Technology | Volume 37 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 167-183
Technical Paper | Plant Water Chemistry / Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A31984
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A CAMAC system encompassing an experimental station consisting of coincidence circuits, delay lines, high-voltage power supplies, scalers, and control modules is described. The experimental station, as well as an autonomous system with programming units and a computer-controlled system, can be controlled. Specific task CAMAC modules were developed for the system, while some other control modules were adapted for use in the experimental station. The application for timing of the coincidence circuit with a time resolution of 1 ns is given and the procedure of autonomous control is described.