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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.
Chien C. Lin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 1 | January 1992 | Pages 71-78
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34627
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The investigation of the chemistry and steam transport behavior of radioiodine in boiling water reactors has been extended to four more reactors during fullscale hydrogen water chemistry (HWC) tests. Under the reducing coolant chemistry environment, most of the radioiodine was found in the iodide (I-) form. The iodine steam carryover was found to increase in varying degree under HWC conditions in two reactors and was practically unchanged in the other two reactors. The variations in radioiodine chemical forms and steam carryover are discussed in terms of radiolytic reactions, and the effect of copper ions in the reactor water is qualitatively evaluated. The effect of HWC on radioiodine transport is not significant.