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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.
Hiroshi Motoda, Tamotsu Hayase, Yasunori Bessho, Kanji Kato
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 4 | April 1982 | Pages 648-666
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A18975
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A coarse mesh nodal coupling method, a well-known technique often used in steady-state neutronics analysis of light water reactors, is extended to a problem of transient phenomena of boiling water reactors (BWRs). Spatial collapse is attempted to develop a multiregion neutronics model and the associated axially one-dimensional and one-point models. These models are numerically solved through the use of two approximations, quasi-static and prompt jump. The results as applied to a reference BWR core for transient analyses, initiated by artificial thermal-hydraulic disturbances, are presented to show the practicality of the approach. The nature of the optimal weighting function necessary for the spatial collapse and for the quasi-static approximation is also discussed.