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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.
Robert C. Block, Donald R. Harris, Si Hwan Kim, Katsuhei Kobayashi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 263-281
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21430
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Neutron self-indication measurements simulating 238U capture in reactors have been carried out over the energy range from 3 eV to 3 keV using shielding samples at 77, 293, and 873 K. The data have been reduced to open and self-shielded capture yields provided on magnetic tape as benchmark data for comparison with nuclear design calculations. The important energy range below 100 eV has been analyzed in detail both to obtain improved resonance parameters for the levels at 6.67, 20.9, 36.8, 66.1, and 80.7 eV and to examine the accuracy with which cross sections are calculated from resonance formalisms. The improved resonance parameters, when used with an accurate but practical multilevel formalism, reduce by about one-half the long-standing discrepancy between calculated and measured 238U resonance capture integrals.