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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.
Kunihiko Satoh, Masao Toyoda, Shigetomo Matsui, Eisuke Mori, Shigeki Shimizu, Keisuke Satoh
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 479-486
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-479
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Hastelloy X electron beam (EB) weld metal shows higher creep rate and slightly lower rupture strength, and the tungsten inert gas (TIG) weld metal shows remarkably lower creep rate and rupture strength as compared with the base metal. Creep behavior for welded joint is determined mainly by the relation between the welding direction and the loading one, the creep rupture times, and the secondary creep rates of base and weld metal. In applying TIG and EB welding to joints of the shell or tubes, there are few problems for EB welding, but for TIG welding it is necessary to improve the weld metal.