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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.
Nam Zin Cho, Yong Hee Kim, Keon Woo Park
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 126 | Number 1 | May 1997 | Pages 35-47
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE97-A24455
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The analytic function expansion nodal (AFEN) method has been successfully applied to two-group neutron diffusion problems. However, the current AFEN method cannot treat complex eigen-modes, which appear in the general multigroup equations. The AFEN method is extended such that complex eigenmodes are treated within the framework of the original AFEN method for any type of geometry. Also, a suite of new nodal codes based on the extended AFEN theory is developed for hexagonal-z geometry and applied to several benchmark problems. Numerical results obtained attest to their accuracy and applicability to practical problems.