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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.
W. L. Filippone
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 421-439
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17530
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A closed-form solution for the angular-spatial moments of the Spencer-Lewis equation is presented that is valid for infinite homogeneous media. From the moments, the electron density distribution as a function of position and path length (energy) is reconstructed for several sample problems involving plane isotropic sources of electrons in aluminum. The results are in excellent agreement with those determined numerically using the streaming ray method. The primary use of the closed form solution will most likely be to generate accurate electron transport benchmark solutions. In principle, the electron density as a function of space, path length, and direction can be determined for planar sources of arbitrary angular distribution.