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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.
S. Bogado Leite, M. N. Özişik, K. Verghese
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 76 | Number 3 | December 1980 | Pages 345-350
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A21325
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A generalized integral transform technique is used to obtain various order analytical solutions to the problems of linear diffusion of radioactive atoms in an eroding slab, cylinder, or sphere subjected to a general boundary condition of the third kind. The zeroth- and first-order solutions obtained in this manner are compared with the exact solution; the results are highly accurate for most practical cases. The proposed technique is sufficiently versatile to cover a variety of heat and mass transfer problems in media with moving boundaries.