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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.
Yigal Ronen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 98 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 82-86
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23528
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A new uncertainty analysis method based on the generalized bias operator method is presented. The new method can be used for those cases in which the other uncertainty analysis methods cannot be applied, due to the lack of or the incomplete knowledge about the input parameter's uncertainties, or due to an inadequate model. The method presented can be applied in those cases in which at least one of the system's responses is measured and the accuracy of the measurements is better than the deviation between the measured and the calculated value obtained. The theory of the method is presented, as well as methods to obtain the special sensitivity matrices associated with the method.