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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.
Charles F. Weber, Calvin M. Hopper
Nuclear Technology | Volume 153 | Number 1 | January 2006 | Pages 1-8
Technical Paper | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3684
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new approach to modeling fissile solution densities is developed and applied to arbitrary solutions of UO22+, Th4+, Pu4+, H+, and NO3- in water. The model is based on the semiempirical method of Pitzer for describing electrolyte solution thermodynamics. This new density model has been included in the recent release of the SCALE 5 code system as the default for criticality calculations of fissile solutions.