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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.
Rikard Malmbeck, Gunnar Skarnemark
Nuclear Technology | Volume 120 | Number 1 | October 1997 | Pages 48-56
Technical Paper | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35430
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Characterization of iodine on-line using mixersettlers has been performed in reactor water, reactor water cleanup (RWCU) effluent, and condensate at the three boiling water reactor (BWR) nuclear power plants (F1, F2, and F3) at Forsmark, Sweden. Characterization of reactor water iodine has also been performed following reactor shutdown at F3. The dominating species in reactor water and condensate was iodide; the rest being essentially iodate. In RWCU effluent, the major species was iodate. Iodine isotopic ratios showed that iodate was delayed when passing the RWCU system. Formation of organic iodides in the RWCU system was not significant. No changes in the iodine species composition in the reactor water could be observed directly following reactor shutdown; however, iodide was with time slowly converted to iodate by radiation-induced oxidation. In reactor water <1% and in condensate and RWCU effluent up to 3% of the total iodine existed in the organic form. Organic iodides in the condensate were older than other iodine species.