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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.
Katsumi Hayashi, Shigeki Nemezawa, Motoi Tanaka, Mikio Uematsu, Tomohiro Ogata, Mikihiro Nakata, Katsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Masaharu Kinno, Ken-Ichi Kimura, Takao Tanosaki, Ryoetsu Yoshino, Mitsuru Sato, Minoru Saito, Akira Hasegawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 2 | November 2009 | Pages 571-575
Shielding Materials | 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 Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9245
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A precise method for estimating residual radioactivity and decommissioning cost is indispensable when deciding whether to adopt low-activation material. For this precise estimation, accurate estimation of both the thermal neutron flux and the activation cross section of the structural material is necessary. We developed a new groupwise cross-section library that has ten thermal groups for SN transport calculation and activation calculation. These libraries are tested and used for advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) and advanced pressurized water reactor (APWR) activation analyses.