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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.
Jeremy Lloyd Conlin, D. Kent Parsons, Steven J. Gardiner, Mark Gray, A. C. Kahler, M. Beth Lee, Morgan C. White
Nuclear Technology | Volume 188 | Number 2 | November 2014 | Pages 218-227
Technical Note | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-153
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In December 2011, the National Nuclear Data Center released ENDF/B-VII.1, the “latest recommended evaluated nuclear data file for use in nuclear science and technology applications.” The data were released in the standard Evaluated Nuclear Data Format (ENDF). This release represents the advances made in nuclear data during the 5 years since the release of ENDF/B-VII.0. The Nuclear Data Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has processed the ENDF/B-VII.1 library and made available a library of ACE data tables at several temperatures for each of the ENDF/B files. The ACE data library is called ENDF71x and is available through the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center with MCNP6. The files can also be used with MCNP5 or other Monte Carlo codes.