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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.
José M. Aragonés
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 281-298
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27306
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A method is developed for calculating effective neutron cross sections in the resolved resonance groups of homogeneous mixtures of cylindrical cells in regular reactor lattices. A rigorous treatment of the nucleonic and neutronic problems provides accurate numerical solutions with detailed dependence in energy and space for both Doppler-broadened cross sections and self-shielded neutron fluxes. The common simplifying approximations are not introduced, so that the method is used as a reference to analyze some of the detailed self-shielding effects that are commonly ignored or approximated in applications ranging from homogeneous mixtures of different resonant nuclides to cylindrical cells with nonuniform temperatures and concentrations within the fuel.