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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.
F. S. Alsmiller, R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., T. A. Gabriel, R. A. Lillie, J. Barish
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 79 | Number 2 | October 1981 | Pages 147-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A27403
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A fission channel has been added to the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model of nuclear reactions so that this model can be used to obtain the differential particle production data that are needed to study the transport of medium-energy nucleons and pions through fissionable material. The earlier work of Hahn and Bertini on the incorporation of fission evaporation competition into the intranuclear-cascade-evaporation model has been retained and the statistical model of fission has been utilized to predict particle production from the fission process. Approximate empirically derived kinetic energies and deformation energies are used in the statistical model. The calculated number of emitted neutrons and residual nuclei distributions is in reasonable agreement with experimental data, but the number of emitted neutrons at the higher incident nucleon energies 500 MeV is sensitive to the level density parameter used.