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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. E. Ragan III, G. F. Auchampaugh, A. Hemmendinger, M. G. Silbert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 1 | September 1976 | Pages 33-39
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A28458
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A benchmark measurement of the neutron leakage spectrum from a pulsed 38-kg uranium (93.5% 235U) sphere has been made using time-of-flight techniques. The sphere had a multiplication of ∼11 for 14-MeV neutrons, and a neutron hold-up time of ∼40 nsec. The centrally located source of 14.1 ± 0.8-MeV neutrons, produced by bombarding a tritium gas target with pulses of low-energy deuterons, was isotropic to ±7.7%. Neutrons in the 0.180- to 16.0-MeV energy range were detected at the end of a 39-m flight path by an Ne-213 liquid scintillator employing pulse-shape discrimination. The detector efficiency was measured over this same energy range using monoenergetic neutrons from the T(p,n) T(d,n), and D(d,n) reactions. The measured neutron flux as a function of energy is compared with the results of Monte Carlo calculations performed with the MCN code. Uranium cross sections from ENDF/B-IV and an older set from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory were used in these calculations. The results calculated using the ENDF/B-IV cross sections are in good agreement with the measurements, especially in the 1- to 6-MeV energy region where the uncertainties in both the calculated and experimental results are the smallest.