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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.
L. E. Beghian, G. H. R. Kegel, T. V. Marcella, B. K. Barnes, G. P. Couchell, J. J. Egan, A. Mittler, D. J. Pullen, W. A. Schier
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 191-201
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20610
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The University of Lowell high-resolution time-of-light spectrometer has been used to measure angular distributions and 90-deg excitation functions for neutrons scattered from 238U in the energy range from 0.9 to 3.1 MeV. This study was limited to the elastic and the first two inelastic groups, corresponding to states of 238U at 45 keV (2+) and 148 keV (4+). Angular distributions were measured at primary neutron energies of 1.1, 1.9, 2.5, and 3.1 MeV for the same three neutron groups. Whereas our elastic data are in fair agreement with the evaluation in the ENDF/B-IV file, there is substantial disagreement between our inelastic measurements and the evaluated cross sections.