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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.
Kirk Mathews
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2013 | Pages 207-221
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-57
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Many Monte Carlo photon transport codes draw samples of the scattering cosine, and corresponding energy loss, for Compton scatter from the Klein-Nishina differential scattering cross section. We present new schemes for sampling by rejection that offer advantages in run time, parsimony in use of random numbers, and/or acceptance efficiency. These are compared with Kahn's method, which was recommended by Lux and Koblinger in 1991. We conclude with recommendations for both algorithmic and table-based approaches.