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In transition: Commercializing fusion power
Commercial fusion power is closer than ever. There are now around 30 U.S. fusion companies, several of which claim to be on track to connect to the grid as early as the 2030s.
Tokamak and laser inertial confinement approaches benefit from decades of research at facilities such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and ITER, with alternative concepts including stellarator, magnetic mirror, and Z-pinch confinement also making notable progress as private and government funding for fusion increases.
Daniel López, Javier Sanz, Francisco Ogando
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 62 | Number 1 | July-August 2012 | Pages 252-257
IFMIF | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Part A: Fusion Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A14143
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During the IFMIF/EVEDA phase, a 125 mA and 9 MeV deuteron prototype accelerator will be designed and tested for the final IFMIF project. Deuteron losses will occur during operation of the accelerator at several components as well as at the beam stopping, leading to material activation induced by deuterons and/or by secondary neutrons, depending on the location. This work is focused on the residual dose rate assessment inside the accelerator vault due to the radioactive inventory induced in the main accelerator components, the outside concrete structures of the accelerator vault, and the concrete-made local shielding of the beam dump. The results will be useful for maintenance work planning, identifying hot areas in the accelerator region. The adopted computational procedure uses MCUNED for determination of spatial distribution of deuteron and neutron fluxes, ACAB for activation calculations, and MCNPX for transport of decay gammas. Deuteron transport cross sections are taken from TENDL-2010 and decay and activation cross-section data from EAF-2007.