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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.
Do Sam Kim, Nam Zin Cho
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 140 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 267-284
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2260
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To develop kinetics calculational capability of the analytic function expansion nodal methodology for space-dependent feedback problems, a novel method with the time-dependent solution decomposed into an analytic part and a polynomial correction part is proposed. The analytic part consists of the analytic solutions of the "quasi-static" diffusion equation and the polynomial part is determined by applying a Galerkin scheme. The results tested on several benchmark problems (two-dimensional and three-dimensional) show that 1 node/assembly calculation and a large time-step size can be used for high accuracy. The new feedback calculation method removes almost all the errors induced from space-dependent feedback. Also, it is shown that the coarse group rebalance acceleration scheme and conventional techniques for kinetics calculation (exponential transformation for time variable and bilinear weighting for control rod cusping problem) can be easily incorporated into the method.