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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.
Dieter Vollath, Horst Wedemeyer, Helmut Elbel, Elmar Günther
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 1 | October 1985 | Pages 240-245
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33723
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(U,Pu)O2 solid solutions are completely soluble in boiling 5 and 10 M nitric acid up to plutonium concentrations of 55 and 65 wt% of PuO2, respectively. The dissolution of the solid solutions decreases drastically at plutonium concentrations above 35 and 40 wt% of PuO2 in 5 and 10 M nitric acid, respectively, with a total metal content of 1 mol/ℓ. This is attributed to a saturation of the solution.