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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.
J. H. Warner, Jr., R. C. Erdmann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 35 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 332-341
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE69-A20011
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An energy-dependent transport theory solution for the infinite medium neutron-wave propagation problem is obtained by applying a Laguerre polynomial expansion to represent the flux energy dependence. Integral transform methods are utilized to determine solutions appropriate for a general isotropic scattering kernel and general cross sections. Detailed calculations are performed for a two-term polynomial expansion and an energy-dependent cross-section model. Although the polynomial expansion approximation appears to be quite satisfactory for low modulation frequencies, serious inadequacies exist for higher frequencies where continuum effects are important. A critical frequency is not predicted, and the two-dimensional continuum of eigenvalues is approximated by a series of cuts, the number of which depends on the number of terms in the expansion.