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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.
Iván Lux
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 3 | December 1982 | Pages 332-337
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19394
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The discrete angle technique is a customary method for selecting scattering angles from such scattering laws that are given through their Legendre coefficients up to some finite order. In this technique, discrete scattering angles are selected with certain probabilities. In low-order Pn truncations, however, this method can lead to unwanted ray effects during the first few free flights of the random walk. We propose a method in which a linear combination of some arbitrary density function, having the same first 2n moments as the truncated expansion, and of a discrete density function will yield samples that conserve the first (2n + 2) moments of the truncated series. Bounds are derived on the possible ranges of the combination coefficient. The method is applied to construct a semicontinuous density function (continuous + Dirac delta functions) having the first four moments prescribed, i.e., being given by its first three Legendre coefficients.