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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.
Marion Petschel, Dietmar Zappe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 65 | Number 1 | April 1984 | Pages 125-130
Technical Paper | Postaccident Debris Cooling / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33379
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Using experimental data from indicator pump tests, various theoretical migration models for radionuclides in groundwater-bearing horizons were considered. The model parameters necessary for these considerations, especially migration velocity and dis-persivity, were obtained by statistical analysis of experimental data. These results show that pulse-like indicator injection best measured values for the model of instantaneous injection in indicator-free flowing groundwater in an infinite strata.