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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.
William H. Reed
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 2 | November 1971 | Pages 309-314
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE46-309
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Three new difference schemes for solving the neutron transport equation are presented. In some situations these new methods give smoother results than the diamond difference scheme, without sacrificing second-order accuracy. Iteration schemes for solving the new difference equations are given, and convergence acceleration devices are discussed. Numerical results illustrate the behavior of these new schemes in a variety of situations.
