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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.
Y. S. Horowitz, A. Dubi, and S. Mordechai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 4 | April 1976 | Pages 427-429
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26842
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We describe a new formulation of the Monte Carlo approach to particle transport problems by defining a direct point flux estimator that extracts information from “passage” points rather than “collision” points. The approach leads directly to the radically new concept of track rotation and provides a statistical framework in which it is possible to prove the validity of the track rotation concept in spherically symmetric configurations and the validity of the compensated track rotation concept in nonspherically symmetric configurations. The approach can lead to essentially infinite gains in efficiency over conventional analog Monte Carlo methods that cannot directly estimate the flux at a point.