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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
S. L. Liew, L. P. Ku
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1853-1858
Neutronic | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29613
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In the Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT), significant nuclear heating results from the neutron and γ interactions in structural components near the plasma and it affects their thermo-mechanical behaviors. Approximate nuclear heating distributions have previously been obtained with 2-D discrete ordinate models1 and a simple formulation based on 3-D ray-tracing and 1-D discrete ordinate models2. To reduce the geometric uncertainties in these calculations, we have constructed a set of detail 3-D Monte Carlo models for rigorous calculations. The results obtained from these models are used as benchmarks to evaluate the accuracy and relative merits of the simpler models.