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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.
N. Dytlewski, N. Ensslin, J. W. Boldeman
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 104 | Number 4 | April 1990 | Pages 301-313
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE90-A23731
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A new neutron multiplicity counter has been developed that can provide International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors a means of verifying plutonium samples by a full neutron multiplicity analysis where conventional neutron coincidence counters yield outliers. This prototype detector comprises an array of 3He and liquid scintillator neutron detectors and is one of a new generation of multiplicity counters under development for nuclear safeguards. A moments analysis solution to the plutonium mass, (α,n) rate, and multiplication is calculated using the measured neutron multiplicity distributions, and an expression for the uncertainty in the multiplication-corrected mass has been derived.