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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.
Werner Faubel, Sameh A. Ali
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 1 | July 1989 | Pages 60-65
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34282
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The technical feasibility of partitioning concentrated nitric acid intermediate-level waste (ILWC) solutions from the Purex process into a small volume of high-level waste and a large volume of low-level waste using sorption methods is demonstrated for 1-ℓ batches. Cesium-134 and 137Cs are selectively separated with a decontamination factor (DF) greater than 1 × 105 in a newly developed “suspended-bed” column filled with the microporous inorganic exchanger ammonium molybdophosphate. The 125Sb and the actinides and lanthanides with a 3+ valence state are retained with DFs between 40 and 1000 on metal oxides of antimony and manganese and on an extraction column containing n-octyl(phenyl) N,N-diisobutyl carbamoyl methyl phosphine oxide, respectively. Ruthenium-106 and 60Co are removed in a column loaded with dimethyl glyoxime and have DFs greater than 20. The amount of secondary wastes arising from absorber materials is calculated to be 300 kg for a 350 t/yr reprocessing plant with an ILWC volume of ∼0.5 m3/t of heavy metal.