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    A Tokamak Neutron Source for FFH Based on Iter Physics and Technology
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-16) Stacey, Weston M.
    Over the past decade the group at Georgia Tech has examined (Refs. 1-16) the application of a tokamak D-T fusion neutron source, based (insofar as possible) on the physics and technology of ITER, that could drive a sub-critical fast transmutation (burner) reactor fueled with the transuranics (TRU) from spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The purpose of such a reactor would be to stabilize the accumulation of spent fuel being discharged from LWRs by fissioning the TRU in SNF to significantly reduce the number of high-level-waste storage repositories required. Both gas-cooled reactors operating on a "burn and bury" non-reprocessing fuel cycle with TRISO TRU fuel (GCFTR) and liquid metal cooled reactors (SABR, FTWR) operating on a “reprocessing” fuel cycle with TRU metallic fuel have been considered, all driven by essentially the same tokamak neutron source. Determination of the required neutron source parameters for the SABR design is discussed here.
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    A semi-automated procedure for creating geometry and background plasma input files for the GTNEUT 2d neutral particle transport code using the uedge plasma edge code
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02) Friis, Zachary Ward
    The GTNEUT code1-3 can provide a computationally economical and accurate calculation of neutral particle transport in the complex 2D geometry to the tokamak divertor, scrapeoff layer and edge regions inside of the separatrix. However, the GTNEUT code requires a geometric input file describing this geometry and a background plasma file describing the plasma density and temperature in the various geometric regions. This report describes semi-automated procedures: i) for using (and extending) the input preparation capability of the UEDGE4-5 code to generate a GTNEUT geometric grid input file from a DIII-D EFIT file and ii) for using the plasma density and temperature distributions calculated with the UEDGE code to generate the background plasma input file for GTNEUT.
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    Fusion DEMO Characteristics & Paths to DEMO
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05-08) Stacey, Weston M.
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    Commentaries on Criticisms of Magnetic Fusion
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999-01-01) Stacey, Weston M.
    This report provides brief commentaries on a representative set of the criticisms of magnetic fusion which have been published over the years and includes annexes which summarize technical information in support of the commentaries.