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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.M. Street, P.E. Hodgson
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 459-464
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17533
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The method previously used to analyze the inelastic scattering of neutrons by 238U by separating the cross sections into compound nucleus and direct interactions is applied to the corresponding data for 232Th. The fission and capture channels are now included explicitly, resulting in a 5% increase in the compound nucleus contribution. Other data and theoretical techniques are discussed briefly. The excitation functions for 24 states up to 2.5 MeV are analyzed, together with two angular distributions at 2.5 MeV.
