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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.
A. A. Vankov and V. F. Ukraintsev, N. Yaneva, S. Toshkov, A. Mateeva
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 96 | Number 2 | June 1987 | Pages 122-136
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE87-A16372
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Transmission and fission self-indication were measured for the isotopes 235U, 238U, and 239Pu in the unresolved resonance region for a wide range of material thicknesses. The fission cross section of 235U serves as standard. The other isotopes are the basic fuel components in plutonium fast breeder reactors., The experimental results obtained were analyzed together with average cross-section data using the multilevel R-matrix formalism. The objective of the consistent analysis was to estimate sets of mean resonance parameters. For this purpose, a new multilevel ladder technique was developed (Monte Carlo method) that enabled calculation of all the functionals of interest including their sensitivity coefficients related to the mean resonance parameters. Hence, the perturbation approach and the correlated random sampling technique were employed., The method of evaluation was strictly statistical, allowing a priori information on the parameters to be used. Thus, a new consistent evaluation of the mean resonance parameters under consideration and of the whole table of group constants requested was performed., The results are discussed with respect to their reliability in practical applications.