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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.
A. Aframian
Nuclear Technology | Volume 42 | Number 3 | March 1979 | Pages 343-349
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32191
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Comparative measurements of neutron flux for low-level irradiations in the MOL-∑∑ reactor have been carried out using gold and indium foils and various solid-state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) in conjunction with fissile (n,f) and fertile (6Li and 10B) (n,α) converter foils as well as intrinsic detectors. Experimental and computed values of thermal and epithemal neutrons, using 6Li and 10B, are also presented for other arrangements. The results show good agreement and internal consistency for both thermal- and fast-neutron fluences, thus confirming the use of SSNTDs as absolute dosimetric devices.