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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.
Edward T. Tomlinson, C. L. Brown
Nuclear Technology | Volume 63 | Number 2 | November 1983 | Pages 347-350
Technical Note | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33293
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The potential effect of low-density water moderation on an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (dry type) was investigated. As a function of water density, k∞ was determined for several water-flooding sequences. Calculations were performed for both unirradiated fuel assemblies and fuel at a burnup of 24 GWd/tonne M.