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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 99 | Number 4 | August 1988 | Pages 390-393
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23567
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The radiolytic gas production rate in boiling water reactors has been reevaluated. The results of recent measurements of the dissolved gases in the main steam samples agree very well with the average production rate measured from the off-gas samples. The best estimate total gas (H2 and O2) production rate is 19.3 ± 0.06 cm3/s-MW(thermal)−1, and the average O2 content in steam is 17.5 ppm. The observed G(H2) and G(O2) values in the reactor core are estimated to be 0.24 and 0.12 molecule/100 eV, respectively.
