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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.
Heinz Ruf, Margarete Friedrich
Nuclear Technology | Volume 37 | Number 1 | January 1978 | Pages 79-83
Technical Paper | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32094
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Received April 28, 1977 Accepted for Publication September 7, 1977 Submicrogram amounts of 237Np in process solutions of the Karlsruhe MILLI plant were determined by neutron activation analysis after chemical separation from nuclear fuel elements and fission products by extraction with thenoyltrifluoroacetone. Chemical yield controls were established by adding and measuring of 239Np spike activity.
