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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.
Bruno Pellaud
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 2 | August 1968 | Pages 169-186
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20655
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The linear extrapolation distance, extrapolated endpoint, and effective radius of grey and black cylindrical neutron absorbers imbedded in an infinite moderator have been calculated using Kofink's formulation of the PN method, with N odd up to 13. These parameters were determined as functions of the absorption of the moderator and of the linear anisotropic scattering component of the moderator, for two source distributions: 1) uniform isotropic sources; or 2) no sources with a current from infinity. The results are given both in tabular form and in simple formulas that are sufficiently accurate for most purposes. In addition, various kinds of PN boundary conditions are compared and new calculations are given for the blackness of homogeneous grey rods.