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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.
Aarti Sharma, M. B. Saddi, B. Singh, B. S. Sandhu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 148 | Number 3 | November 2004 | Pages 445-452
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE04-A2470
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The collision integral cross sections are obtained and computed for several experimentally realizable cases to understand the various features of the higher-order process known as double photon Compton scattering. The computational work carried out using the Mathematica software package generally corresponds to three different incident gamma photon energies of 137Cs (661.65 keV), 65Zn (1.12 MeV), and that from the radiative capture of 19F (6.14 MeV). The characteristic features revealed a need to be investigated experimentally to check for their support to the currently acceptable theory of this quantum electrodynamics process. An experimental technique has been suggested for the measurement of these collision integral cross sections.