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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.
David H. Chambers, Hema Chandrasekaran, Sean E. Walston
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 184 | Number 2 | October 2016 | Pages 244-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-109
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A new way of utilizing the fast Fourier transform is developed to compute the probability distribution for a fission chain to create n neutrons. We then extend this technique to compute the probability distributions for detecting n neutrons. Our technique can be used for fission chains initiated by either a single neutron inducing a fission or by the spontaneous fission of another isotope.
