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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.
Willard G. Winn, Norman P. Baumann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | March 1984 | Pages 300-306
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33359
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Tritiated process water is monitored by detecting the D2O component via the 2D(γ,n)1H reaction. A probe containing a 1- to 7-mCi 24Na (15-h) gamma source and six 3He neutron detectors produces and monitors the 2D(γ, n)1H reaction. A variety of probe configurations were examined for D2O detection sensitivity. The corresponding detection limits range from 6 to 280 µl for D2O droplets and 1 to 13 µl/cm for D2O streams, when 10-min neutron counting with a 1-mCi gamma source is used. Results from two field applications illustrate the utility of the monitor.