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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.
Hiroyuki Hashikura, Hideshi Fukumoto, Yoshiaki Oka, Masatsugu Akiyama, Shigehiro An
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 4 | August 1983 | Pages 337-344
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A15454
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A series of measurements of ∼14-MeV deuterium-tritium neutrons streaming through a slit and a duct in concrete shields has been carried out using a Cockcroft-Walton-type neutron generator. Measured neutron energy spectra are compared with calculations in six configurations of the shields. The configurations are the simplified geometries of streaming paths of tokamak reactors, such as a divertor throat and a neutral beam injection port. The measured data were obtained with an NE-213 liquid scintillator using pulse shape discrimination methods to resolve neutron and gamma-ray pulse height data and using a spectral unfolding code to convert these data to energy spectra. The experiments were analyzed by a Monte Carlo code. The calculated neutron energy spectra slightly underestimate the measured data, especially in the range of 6 to 8 MeV. The agreement between the calculated and measured integral flux above 2.2 MeV ranges from 87.5 to 72.7% depending on the configurations.