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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
S. T. Perkins, R. J. Howerton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 4 | December 1982 | Pages 388-392
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21452
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The expression for the average energy of the two interacting particles undergoing a thermonuclear reaction is developed, and results are presented for selected reactions between light isotopes. It is shown that the assumption that the average energy is equal to 3kT is only valid for a 1/υ relative cross-section dependence.
