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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.
Kazuo Shin, Kagetomo Miyahara, Eiji Tanabe, Yoshitomo Uwamino
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 1 | May 1995 | Pages 40-54
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24104
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Measurements of the double-differential thick-target neutron yield are made for 75- and 120-MeV 12C5+, 153-MeV 16O5+, and 40-MeV alpha particles bombarding carbon, aluminum, copper, and lead targets. The measured data are parameterized by using the two-component moving source model. The systematic variation of the equilibrium neutron (EN) yield with incident ions and targets is analyzed by using the thus-obtained moving source parameters, and a simple expression is proposed to describe the systematics in the EN yield. The systematic change in the nonequilibrium neutron (NEN) yield was formulated to a simple expression by using the local hot spot model. The proposed expression reproduced well the measured EN and NEN yields.
