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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.
Katsuhiro Ohkawa, Richard T. Lahey, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | December 1984 | Pages 437-451
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33501
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A gamma-ray scattering densitometer was developed for the nonintrusive measurement of the local void fraction in complex geometries. The densitometer system consisted of a shielded 137Cs photon source, a NaI photon detector, and a collimator system that defined the scattering volume within which the photons were scattered. An analytical model for the scattering events was developed. This model took the form of an integral equation, which expressed the measured counting rate in terms of the geometric configuration, local density, and the nuclear properties of the scattering volume. An interactive-graphics-based numerical procedure for inversion of the integral equation was developed. Results of two-phase flow measurements in a concentric annulus are given.