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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.
Jun Woo Bae, Hee Reyoung Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 3 | December 2015 | Pages 215-221
Technical Paper | Radiation Measurements and General Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-131
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A design and performance test of an antiscattering X-ray grid that is based on photosensitive glass was conducted using MCNP simulation. The simulation was designed in three parts: source, scatterer, and grid. The source was a cone type with a single energy of 50 keV, and the scatterer was designed as a box with elemental composition and density the same as those of a human body. Three types of grid were tested: ideal, injection, and electroplating. The ideal-type grid was generally known and contained only a shielding wall, the injection-type grid had the shielding material injected into the glass, and the electroplating-type grid had the shielding material electroplated on the glass lattice skeleton. The ideal-type grid showed a scattered and primary photon ratio (SPR) of 0.106, and the nongrid type showed an SPR of 0.159. The injection-type grid had an SPR of 0.126, which corresponded to 119.3% of that of the ideal type. The electroplating-type grid had an SPR of 0.0964, which corresponded to 93.7% of that of the ideal type. It was understood that the electroplating-type grid showed the most effective reduction of the scattered photons in terms of SPR.