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Fusion Energy Week begins today
Fusion is riding a surge of attention that began in December 2022 when researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition. The organizers of Fusion Energy Week—a group called the U.S. Fusion Outreach Team—on the other hand, trace fusion development back 100 years to the doctoral research of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that stars, including our Sun, are mostly made of hydrogen and helium, which in turn led to the understanding that those elements are the “fuel” of potential fusion energy systems on Earth. In recognition of Payne-Gaposchkin’s birthday—May 10—the U.S. Fusion Outreach Team plans to hold a “grassroots celebration of fusion energy” May 6–10, 2024, and annually during the second week of May.
Zaphar-Ullah Koreshi, Asaf Kinrot, Jeffery D. Lewins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 3 | November 1992 | Pages 371-387
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30096
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The TIBER II blanket design is chosen for a neutronic sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo perturbation theory. A preliminary analysis is carried out with both deterministic and Monte Carlo simulation codes to estimate the sensitivity of the tritium breeding in the blanket to the atomic density ratio of tungsten multiplier and aqueous solution breeder. Derivatives of the neutron collision density in the blanket are then sampled using the collision estimator in the MORSE code. It is found that for small perturbations, the neutron fluxes and tritium breeding rates can be predicted quite accurately, thus saving substantial computing in a preliminary design study.