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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.
Osvaldo Fiorella, Manlio Mangia, Elio Oliveri
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 2 | May 1983 | Pages 353-361
Technical Paper | Second International RETRAN Meeting / Radioisotopes and Isotope | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33203
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Optimal step assays and interstage up-flow rates for enriching and stripping sections of uranium gaseous diffusion squared-off cascades are manageably determined without any additional approximations beyond the usual ones (i.e., a close separation process and a constant cut in the whole section). This is accomplished by the application of the optimization conditions to the function to be minimized, i.e., the total up-flow rate, still expressed in integral form. The use of suitable dimensionless variables allows quick evaluations of the optimal parameters of any plant, provided that the product and waste assays range from 1 to 99% and from 0.05 to 0.65%, respectively, and that the number of enriching and stripping steps be, at most, seven and four, respectively. The results are consistent with those available in the literature; in particular, it is confirmed that, for low and intermediate product assays, a number of enriching steps higher than five is unnecessary in most cases.