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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.
C. R. Gould, J. R. Boyce
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 60 | Number 4 | August 1976 | Pages 477-481
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26909
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Many reactions involving 6Li are of interest in studies of the performance of charged particle fusion reactor systems. We report measurements of the absolute cross sections for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction from 3 to 6 Me V and include the first estimates of the absolute magnitude of the three-body continuum cross section 6Li(3He, p)2α. The cross sections below 1 MeV are calculated from an s-wave Gamow extrapolation and are used to extract the Maxwell-averaged reaction rate for the 6Li(3He, p)8Be reaction leading to the ground and first excited states of 8Be.
