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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.
K. N. Schwinkendorf
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 121 | Number 1 | September 1995 | Pages 136-141
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24135
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Large computer codes have been created in the past to predict the energy release in hypothetical core disruptive accidents (CDA) postulated to occur in liquid-metal reactors (LMRs). These codes, such as SIMMER, are highly specific to LMR designs. More recent attention has focused on thermal-spectrum criticality accidents such as for fuel storage basins and waste tanks containing fissile material. This paper presents results from recent one-dimensional kinetics simulations, performed for a recriticality accident in a thermal spectrum. Reactivity insertion rates generally are smaller than in LMR CDAs, and the energetics generally are more benign. Parametric variation of input was performed, including reactivity insertion and initial temperature.