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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.
B. R. Wienke, R. E. Seamon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 3 | July 1977 | Pages 236-241
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27036
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Rate coefficients and normalized differential scattering rate distributions for (n-n), (n-d), (n-t), and (n-6Li) elastic reactions for radially translating Maxwellian-distributed targets are examined for energy and temperature ranges related to fusion energies. For these reactions, both asymptotically constant cross sections and cross sections decaying inversely as the relative speed are treated. For the (n-d), (n,t), and (n-6Li) cases, actual multigroup cross sections are employed in the energy range from 0 to 17 MeV, while the (n-n) interaction is treated in the hard sphere limit. Some results for various incident and final neutron energies at a target temperature of 2 MeV are listed, and conclusions from an extensive numerical analysis are given.