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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.
Vladislav Adamík
Nuclear Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | December 1979 | Pages 369-377
Technical Paper | Nuclear Power Reactor Safety (Presented at the ENS/ANS International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, October 16–19, 1978) / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32341
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A theoretical study of reinforced concrete structure behavior under missile impact loading has been performed. The study was limited to cylindrical geometry and only to nondeformable missiles with a flat front nose. The finite difference Lagrangian code, which is based on crack propagation theory, has been elaborated and verified for experiments with rigid missile impact on reinforced slabs. For the initial time interval after the impact, there is good agreement between theory and experiment, not only for local quantities but also with respect to the structural response of the whole target.