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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.
Hoju Moon, Samuel H. Levine
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 112-122
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23708
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A new nodal interface diffusion equation is derived by applying the second form of Green’s theorem to the transverse-integrated diffusion equation. By virtue of this integral equation, a unified theory of the nodal interface partial current method and the nodal interface net current or flux method is established. Use of the infinite-medium Green’s function in that equation results in the same interface partial current equation as the nodal Green’s function method. The nodal interface net current equation can be proven to converge and demonstrates a computational efficiency superior to the nodal interface partial current method for standard benchmark problems.