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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.
G. Muhrer, M. Wilson, Ch. Kelsey, E. Pitcher, F. Gallmeier, M. Wohlmuther
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 502-507
Shielding | 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-A9233
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The Materials Test Station (MTS) is a project funded by the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative with the goal to build a facility that allows large-scale irradiation for potential future nuclear fuel and material samples to obtain the knowledge and understanding of the nuclear processes necessary to close the nuclear fuel cycle and thereby reduce the amount and the toxicity of the nuclear waste. The MTS is proposed to be built in Area A of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center and operated at up to 2 MW (2.5 mA at 800 MeV). As part of this operation, a so-called camera room will need to be installed upstream of the target cell. Because of the uniqueness of this functionality, the camera room requires a special shielding design, which will be discussed in this paper.