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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.
Alexis Jinaphanh, Nicolas Leclaire, Bertrand Cochet
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 184 | Number 1 | September 2016 | Pages 53-68
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-2
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A continuous-energy sensitivity coefficient calculation to nuclear data capability has been recently developed in Version 5.C.1 of the MORET Monte Carlo code developed at Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté nucléaire (IRSN). The method used for implementation is the differential operator method. In this method, the estimation of the fission source derivatives is replaced by an estimation of the adjoint flux. Both methodology and tallies are described in this paper. The preliminary verification is mainly performed using code-to-code comparisons with the SCALE6.1 and MCNP6.1 software packages. Configurations used for verification are the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) Uncertainty Analyses for Criticality Safety Assessment (UACSA) Expert Group benchmarks, the Jezebel International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) benchmark, and a configuration from the Matériaux en Interaction et Réflexion Toutes Epaisseurs (MIRTE) French proprietary experimental program. Results show good agreement among the different codes.