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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 53 | Number 4 | April 1974 | Pages 475-478
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23378
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Using the multigroup diffusion equation, a reciprocity relation is established for an arbitrarily shaped body. This relation expresses the flux caused by a source inside the body in terms of the flux resulting from an incident current on that body. In the multigroup case for one-dimensional bodies with flat sources and in the one-group case for rectangular two-dimensional bodies with an arbitrary source, practical formulas are derived from this relation. These give the leakage from a body in terms of its reflection and transmission properties. An advantage of the use of this reciprocity relation is the improved computational efficiency in response matrix calculations.