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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.
Ricardo C. De Barros, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 3 | March 1990 | Pages 199-208
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23719
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A numerical method that is free from all spatial truncation errors is developed for one-group slab-geometry discrete ordinates problems. The unknowns in the method are the cell-edge and cell-average angular fluxes, and the numerical values obtained for these quantities are those of the analytic solution of the discrete ordinates equations. The method is based on the use of the standard balance equation, which holds in each spatial cell and for each discrete ordinates direction, and a nonstandard auxiliary equation that contains a Green’s function for the cell-average angular flux in terms of the incident angular fluxes on the cell edges and the interior source. Numerical results are given to illustrate the method’s accuracy.