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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
Matthias Frankl, Rafael Macián-Juan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 183 | Number 1 | May 2016 | Pages 135-142
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-47
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In radiation transport simulations, photonuclear processes still represent a rather new feature and are not as well established as neutron, electron, or other photon interactions. This study provides a benchmark for the photoneutron yields in C, Al, Cu, Ta, Pb, and U targets using the most current photonuclear cross-section library ENDF7U and the transport code MCNPX, v. 2.7. The isotopic material descriptions of C and Cu could be improved as more isotopes are available with the new library. The results were compared to experimental data provided by Barber and George [Phys. Rev., 116, 1551 (1959)]. In general, a good agreement can be observed although there seems to be a systematic underestimation in the calculated neutron yields.