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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 23 | Number 3 | November 1965 | Pages 238-250
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A19557
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The ability to interpret measured (n, 2n) cross sections by the statistical model of nuclear reactions has been tested. Good agreement was observed for 22 nuclei having mass numbers greater than 30. The statistical model was then applied to nuclei in this mass range to estimate both monoenergetic and fission-spectrum-averaged cross sections. The (n, 2n) reaction in structural materials contributes on the order of +0.1% to the reactor multiplication.