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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.
R. Sanchez, B. D. Ganapol
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 84 | Number 1 | May 1983 | Pages 61-66
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17458
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The integral transform method (ITN) has been extended to the treatment of one-dimensional homogeneous media with linearly anisotropic scattering. A previously obtained formula linking the isotropic and the anisotropic one-dimensional kernels allows for calculation of the anisotropic matrix elements in the form of linear combinations of a few isotropic matrix elements. In practice, to solve the anisotropic problem of order N one needs only to calculate the isotropic collision matrix of order (N + 2) in plane and spherical geometries and of order (N + 1) in cylindrical geometry. The method is applied to the calculation of critical parameters for bare cylinders. Highly accurate values, to be used as benchmarks, are obtained and illustrate the precision and fast convergence rate of the method.