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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.
Lefteri Tsoukalas, Franklin Clikeman, Martin Bertodano, Tatjana Jevremovic, Joshua Walter, Anton Bougaev, Edward Merritt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 155 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 248-251
Technical Note | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3759
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An attempt to reproduce the tritium measurements in an acoustic cavitation experiment with deuteratad acetone has shown no evidence of tritium production attributed to D-D fusion. The average number of disintegrations per minute observed is within 1 of zero.
