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Taking shape: Fusion energy ecosystems built with public-private partnerships
It’s possible to describe fusion in simple terms: heat and squeeze small atoms to get abundant clean energy. But there’s nothing simple about getting fusion ready for the grid.
Private developers, national lab and university researchers, suppliers, and end users working toward that goal are developing a range of complex technologies to reach fusion temperatures and pressures, confounded by science and technology gaps linked to plasma behavior; materials, diagnostics, and electronics for extreme environments; fuel cycle sustainability; and economics.
Ryota Katano, Masao Yamanaka, Cheol Ho Pyeon
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 12 | December 2019 | Pages 1394-1402
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1624084
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The applicability of the linear combination method is experimentally confirmed through the pulsed neutron source (PNS) experiment. The linear combination method reduces the spatial higher-mode (HM) components in neutron flux distribution and provides one representative value of the measurement of the prompt neutron decay constant by the linear combination of the neutron counts obtained in the PNS experiment. The PNS experiment is conducted at Kyoto University Critical Assembly with deuteron-tritium source, and the neutron counts are measured at multiple detector positions. The experiment results show that the dependency of the prompt neutron decay constant on the masking time is dramatically reduced by the linear combination method compared to the conventional method: The HM components are eliminated not only by temporal decay but also by the linear combination. Through the experiment, the linear combination method can be a candidate for a practical measurement method of the prompt neutron decay constant reducing the spatial HM effects.