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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.
K. L. Nash, S. Fried, A. M. Friedman, N. Susak, P. Rickert, J. C. Sullivan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 257-266
Technical Paper | Radiation Effects and Their Relationship to Geological Repository / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33081
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The rates at which 241Am and 239Pu are leached by triply distilled water from a candidate borosilicate glass 76-101 can be adequately correlated by the exponential, An = An0l−kt, where An is the concentration of the actinide in molar mass per square centimetre. The values for the parameters An0 and k are 2.45 × 10−9 M/cm2 and 0.024 ± 0.001 h−1, respectively, over the period of 1 to 24 h. When the glass samples are irradiated with gamma rays from a 60Co source of 1 Mrad/h, values of the parameters (1-to 24-h irradiation time) are A0 = 5.6 × 10−9M/cm2, k = 0.103 ± 0.004 h−1 for 239Pu and A0 = 2.2 × 10−11 M/cm2, k = 0.104 ± 0.003 h−1 for 241 Am.