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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.
P. K. Mohapatra, P. K. Verma, D. R. Prabhu, D. R. Raut
Nuclear Technology | Volume 205 | Number 8 | August 2019 | Pages 1119-1125
Regular Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1575126
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Extraction of 137Cs from 1.6 L of diluted aqueous simulated high-level waste (SHLW) (at 1 M HNO3) was carried out using a two-stage centrifugal contactor system (bowl volume 200 mL) into 2 × 10−3 M solution of calix[4]arene-bis-1,2-benzo-crown-6 in phenyltrifluoromethyl sulphone. Batch extraction studies were done to optimize the conditions for the centrifugal contactor runs. Extraction and stripping experiments were carried out at 2000 rotations per minute, keeping the organic and aqueous flow rate at 15 mL/min. Alamine 336 was used at a very low concentration (0.4 vol %) to effect efficient stripping of the extracted radiocesium. The studies were carried out using SHLW as well and the results indicated quantitative extraction and stripping in the first stage of operations while the repeat runs suggested lower extraction as well as stripping efficiencies.