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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.
D. F. Montague, J. B. Fussell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 74 | Number 3 | June 1980 | Pages 199-209
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A20120
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A procedure for determining the expected number of failures of systems undergoing phased missions is described. Approximations to this procedure are also presented. The emergency core cooling system of a boiling water reactor is analyzed to demonstrate this methodology. The results of this analysis show that these procedures have practical application and the approximations provide a close estimate to the exact expected number of failures.
