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The U.K. government has announced a series of initiatives to progress fusion to commercialization, laid out in a fusion strategy policy paper published March 16. A New Energy Revolution: The UK’s Plan for Delivering Fusion Energy begins to describe how the government’s £2.5 billion (about $3.4 billion) investment in fusion research and development over five years will be allocated.
P. Grandjean, C. E. Siewert
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 69 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 161-168
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A20608
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The recently developed FN method is used to solve the half-space albedo problem and the half-space constant-source problem. In addition, the reflected and transmitted currents for the finite slab and the critical thickness of a multiplying slab are reported. As further tests of the method, the inverse problem for the finite slab is solved, and the flux distortion factor for typical two-media problems is computed. It is shown that the FN method, although particularly concise, yields excellent numerical results for the problems considered.