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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.
Feroz Ahmed, P. S. Grover and L. S. Kothari
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 34 | Number 1 | October 1968 | Pages 33-38
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A19363
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Neutron-wave propagation in the crystalline moderator, graphite, is studied by numerically solving the Boltzmann equation in the diffusion approximation. For each source frequency, the method employed (described in detail in Part I of this series) gives the fundamental mode eigenvalue and the corresponding neutron energy distribution. Various source frequencies in the range 10 to 500 cps have been considered and it is shown that a discrete mode exists for f < f ≈ 350 cps. The Pn coefficients and also the diffusion constant and diffusion cooling constant have been obtained and compared with experimental data. The agreement between our theoretical values of different parameters and the corresponding experimental data is better than what has so far been reported.