Radioactivity computation of steady-state and pulsed fusion reactors operation
Abstract
Different mathematical methods are used to calculate the nuclear transmutation in steady-state and pulsed neutron irradiation. These methods are the Schuer decomposition, the eigenvector decomposition, and the Pade approximation of the matrix exponential function. In the case of the linear decay chain approximation, a simple algorithm is used to evaluate the transition matrices.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 3rd International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology
- Pub Date:
- June 1994
- Bibcode:
- 1994fnt..symp.....A
- Keywords:
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- Computation;
- Fusion Reactors;
- Neutron Irradiation;
- Radioactivity;
- Transmutation;
- Algorithms;
- Differential Equations;
- Eigenvectors;
- Exponential Functions;
- Pade Approximation;
- Reactor Materials;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Plasma Physics