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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.
Stanley T. Kosiewicz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 1981 | Pages 92-99
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32756
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Gas generation rates from the alpha radiolysis of typical organic transuranic wastes are affected by the organic matrix, dose rate, dose, and temperature. The matrices under test were cellulosics, plastics, and rubber materials. Gas generation rates from cellulosics were found to be dose-rate independent and dose dependent. Increasing the temperature increased the rate of gas generation for cellulosics.