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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.
Alain Kavenoky
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 209-225
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27152
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The CN method of solving the transport equation has been developed at Saclay during the past few years. This method is based on a lemma proved by Placzek; an integral equation is provided for the angular flux at the boundary of the various media, and its kernel is the infinite medium Green's function. Four plane geometry problems are solved in one-velocity theory, with a linearly anisotropic scattering kernel: the albedo for the Milne problem, the extrapolation length for the same problem, albedo and transmission factor for slabs, and the critical thickness for slab reactors. Numerical results are obtained and compared with data computed by reference methods.