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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.
T. W. Armstrong, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 38 | Number 1 | October 1969 | Pages 53-62
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A19353
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Calculations have been carried out to determine the time dependence of the residual photon dose rate around a high-energy proton accelerator. The development of the nucleon-meson cascade, the residual nuclei production, and the photon transport are calculated using Monte Carlo methods. Proton beams of 3- and 200-GeV and shields in the form of infinite cylinders of iron and heavy concrete are considered. Although the 3-GeV calculations are carried out with some exactitude, the results for the 200-GeV case mast be considered very approximate since the energy and angular distributions of the products from nuclear interactions in this energy range are not well known.