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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.
J. P. Ruiter
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | December 1981 | Pages 683-689
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32813
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The effect of pressure and temperature fluctuations is greatly reduced by appropriate design and by prestressing of the lines in an apparatus for remote, continuous weighing of heavy pressurized vessels (60 bar) at high temperatures (250°C), even when these vessels are connected to other systems by means of metal lines. The weighing device is based on the application of strain gauges. The accuracy of measurement is within 0.5%. Weighing devices of this type can be applied, for example, in the process industry.