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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.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 1972 | Pages 228-230
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22401
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The ratio of the fission cross sections of 239Pu to that of 235U has been measured at 30 keV and from 0.5 to 5.4 MeV. A value of 0.796 ± 0.020 has been obtained at 30 keV. None of the structure reported recently by Savin et al. could be found in the MeV range in the present measurements.
