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This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Nirmal Kumar Ray, Tushar Roy, Shefali Bajpai, Tarun Patel, Yogesh Kashyap, Mayank Shukla, Amar Sinha
Nuclear Technology | Volume 197 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 110-115
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT16-71
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The online reactivity monitoring of accelerator-driven systems is a crucial issue in reactor control and monitoring. The area-ratio method is one of the techniques for measuring the reactivity of subcritical systems using a pulsed neutron source. This technique has been used to measure reactivity at different locations in the subcritical assembly BRAHMMA developed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India. Since the reactivity measured by the area-ratio method is spatially dependent on the detector location, the Bell-Glasstone correction factor was used to correct the measured reactivity.