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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.
Kotaro Tonoike, Takemi Nakamura, Yuichi Yamane, Yoshinori Miyoshi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 143 | Number 3 | September 2003 | Pages 364-372
Technical Note | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT03-A3424
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The gamma-ray monitor installed at Processing Facility 1 in the JCO Tokai-works recorded the gamma dose rate change over time in proportion to power (nuclear fission rate) in the precipitation vessel from the beginning of the criticality accident to the end of the critical condition. The shape of the gamma dose rate record from 25 min after occurrence to the point of termination ("plateau" part) was normalized using the fission number 2.2 × 1018, and the absolute value of the power was evaluated.