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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.
Alireza Haghighat, Ramana Veerasingam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 2 | February 1993 | Pages 237-243
Technical Note | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34785
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several neutron cross-section libraries used for fluence calculations at the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) based on one-dimensional SN transport calculations are analyzed. It is demonstrated that the BUGLE-80, SAILOR, and ELXSIR libraries yield similar results, while the CASK library predicts significantly different results through and beyond the RPV. The use of the revised ENDF/B- V iron cross sections yields a significant increase in the neutron fluxes beyond the ironcontaining regions. This result has direct impact on the reactor cavity dosimetry that is being considered for the RPV fluence estimation.