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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.
Marcel Reginatto, Eike Hohmann, Burkhard Wiegel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 328-332
Neutron Measurements | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (Part 2) / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9203
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Extended-range Bonner sphere spectrometers are well suited for spectrometry in neutron fields that extend from thermal energies to a few hundred mega-electron-volts. The data analysis, however, is not straightforward, and it is of interest to evaluate how well the main features of the spectrum can be determined by the measurements and to estimate the uncertainties of integral quantities of interest, e.g., fluence and dose. In this paper, we apply Bayesian parameter estimation to this problem. We use simulated data that model measurements made in neutron fields behind shielding at high-energy accelerators.