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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.
Rudy J. M. Konings, Wout M. P. Franken, Rainer P. Conrad, Jean-Francois Gueugnon, Jean-Claude Spirlet
Nuclear Technology | Volume 117 | Number 3 | March 1997 | Pages 293-298
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35343
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Irradiation tests of the transmutation of the fission products technetium and iodine are performed in the High Flux Reactor at Petten. Samples of technetium metal (99Tc) and of three different metal iodides (cerium triiodide, sodium iodide, and lead diiodide, containing the stable 127l isotope) are irradiated during eight reactor cycles (192.95 full-power days, corresponding to a neutron fluence of 2 × 1026 m-2). Postirradiation examination is performed to measure the transmutation rate and to investigate the material behavior during irradiation.