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Title: The ARIES tokamak reactor study

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OSTI ID:5174694

The ARIES study is a community effort to develop several visions of tokamaks as fusion power reactors. The aims are to determine the potential economics, safety, and environmental features of a range of possible tokamak reactors, and to identify physics and technology areas with the highest leverage for achieving the best tokamak reactor. Three ARIES visions are planned, each having a different degree of extrapolation from the present data base in physics and technology. The ARIES-I design assumes a minimum extrapolation from current tokamak physics (e.g., 1st stability) and incorporates technological advances that can be available in the next 20 to 30 years. ARIES-II is a DT-burning tokamak which would operate at a higher beta in the 2nd MHD stability regime. It employs both potential advances in the physics and expected advances in technology and engineering. ARIES-II will examine the potential of the tokamak and the D{sup 3}He fuel cycle. This report is a collection of 14 papers on the results of the ARIES study which were presented at the IEEE 13th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (October 2-6, 1989, Knoxville, TN). This collection describes the ARIES research effort, with emphasis on the ARIES-I design, summarizing the major results, the key technical issues, and the central conclusions.

Research Organization:
California Univ., Los Angeles, CA (USA). Inst. of Plasma and Fusion Research
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/ER
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-86ER52126
OSTI ID:
5174694
Report Number(s):
UCLA/PPG-1274; CONF-891007-Exc.; ON: DE90004377; TRN: 90-001584
Resource Relation:
Conference: 13. IEEE symposium on fusion engineering, Knoxville, TN (USA), 2-6 Oct 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English