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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.
Hugo W. Bertini, Janice S. White
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 1 | January 1979 | Pages 85-94
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A21289
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Idealized equilibrium expansion calculations were made to determine the characteristics of UO2 vapor bubbles produced under sodium in the capacitor discharge vaporization experiments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These characteristics are the quality of the vaporized UO2, it vapor density, and the bubble diameter. A parametric study was made over the range of initial and final states expected to occur in the experiments to determine the effects of losing arbitrary amounts of energy and of vaporizing arbitrary amounts of sodium. The results are sufficiently general to be of use in estimating bubble characteristics for a hypothetical core disruptive accident in a liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactor.
