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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.
Philip A. Anderson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 1 | January 1980 | Pages 173-180
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32420
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Simulated high-level liquid waste (HLLW) slurries were prepared by combining a series of soluble stock solutions composed of commonly available chemical reagents. The properties simulated included acidity, nitrate concentration, quantities and composition of undissolved solids, density, and viscosity of HLLW at various degrees of evaporation. Limits of concentration by evaporation and stability during storage were studied. Settling rates and particle sizes of the undissolved solids were estimated for stored HLLW. While considerable effort was expended to closely simulate actual reprocessing wastes, these data should be confirmed under actual process conditions.