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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.
Shinsuke Tashiro, Gunzo Uchiyama, Takuya Ohno, Yuki Amano, Ryoichiro Yoshida, Koji Watanabe, Hitoshi Abe, Yuichi Yamane
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 3 | March 2025 | Pages 429-438
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2329832
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Contributing to the confinement safety evaluation of glove boxes (GBs) connected to high-efficiency particle air filters for radioactive materials under fire accidents, combustion tests of a flammable polymer, i.e., polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), and a flame retardant polymer, i.e., polycarbonate (PC), as typical GB panel resins have been conducted with an engineering-scale combustion apparatus. Combustion properties such as the mass loss rate (MLR) and the heat release rate (HRR) of PMMA and PC were investigated in the combustion tests. From our results, the relationships of MLR and HRR to the surface area of the plate type of PMMA and PC were deduced.