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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.
W. R. Johnson, L. D. Thompson, Thomas A. Lechtenberg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July 1984 | Pages 88-101
A. Selection, Production, and Development of Alloys for HTGR Component | Status of Metallic Materials Development for Application in Advanced High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33458
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The utilization of the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) for advanced or process heat applications will require the use of wrought components operating at temperatures up to 1000°C (1832°F) for times approaching 30 yr. Alloys for such components must withstand the corrosive effects (carburization and oxidation) of the impure helium primary coolant environment and maintain adequate elevated temperature strength. Commercially available wrought alloys have been found to be seriously limited for such applications because of their inherently poor resistance to corrosion in impure helium. As one approach to the solution of this problem, a program has been initiated to develop wrought alloys having a better combination of corrosion resistance and high-temperature strength, under advanced HTGR conditions, than commercial alloys currently available. This program culminated in 1980 with the design, melting, and fabrication of ten experimental Ni-Cr-Mo-W-Al-Ti-Zr-C alloys and with the initiation of efforts to evaluate their corrosion and mechanical behavior. Results of tests showed that all the experimental alloys exhibited superior carburization resistance in advanced reactor helium. In addition, several of the alloys exhibited excellent mechanical properties, including, in the case of one alloy, creep rupture strength at 900°C (1652°F), significantly better than that of the commercial alloy Inconel-617.