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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.
Weston M. Stacey, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 3 | September 1970 | Pages 381-393
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19096
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Continuous slowing down theory is applied to the treatment of the elastic moderation of neutrons in a fast-reactor assembly, where strong scattering resonances are prevalent. Three prescriptions for the moderating parameters, one of which is original to this paper, are studied. Continuous slowing down theory is demonstrated to yield quite accurate results for the neutron spectrum, when the improved prescriptions presented in this paper are used. A method for treating narrow resonance absorption separate from the slowing down calculation, then using the results of the former to attenuate the flux obtained from the latter, is presented and demonstrated to be promising.