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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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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
R. G. Alsmiller, Jr., J. Barish, C. R. Weisbin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | August 1977 | Pages 376-386
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31802
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Calculated results have been obtained of the uncertainties in the neutron scalar flux, the energy deposition per unit volume, and the displacements per atom in the toroidal field coil of a tokamak experimental power reactor due to neutron cross-section errors in iron and carbon, which are major constituents of the blanket-shield-coil configuration considered. The calculations were carried out using perturbation theory to obtain sensitivity profiles for the various cross sections of interest, and these profiles were then combined with cross-section error estimates, including correlations, to obtain the uncertainties. Each of the three responses—the neutron scalar flux, the energy deposition per unit volume, and the displacements per atom—is found to be very sensitive to the cross sections in the energy group that contains the source (∼2.2 pJ) since a deuterium-tritium source is assumed, and each of the responses is found to have a relative standard deviation of ∼100% due to neutron cross-section errors in iron.