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Title: FED-A, an advanced performance FED based on low safety factor and current drive

Abstract

The FED-A study aims to quantify the potential improvement in cost-effectiveness of the Fusion Engineering Device (FED) by assuming low safety factor q (less than 2 as opposed to about 3) at the plasma edge and noninductive current drive (as opposed to only inductive current drive). The FED-A performance objectives are set to be : (1) ignition assuming International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR) plamsa confinement scaling, but still achieving a fusion power amplification Q greater than or equal to 5 when the confinement is degraded by a factor of 2; (2) neutron wall loading of about 1 MW/m/sup 2/, with 0.5 MW/m/sup 2/ as a conservative lower bound; and (3) more clearly power-reactor-like operations, such as steady state.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6028937
Report Number(s):
ORNL/FEDC-83/1
ON: DE83015072
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-26
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; FIRST WALL; DESIGN; TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS; COST; CURRENT-DRIVE HEATING; HIGH-BETA PLASMA; MAGNET COILS; PLASMA MACROINSTABILITIES; Q-VALUE; STABILIZATION; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENERGY; EQUIPMENT; HEATING; INSTABILITY; JOULE HEATING; PLASMA; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMA INSTABILITY; RESISTANCE HEATING; THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR WALLS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS; 700200* - Fusion Energy- Fusion Power Plant Technology

Citation Formats

Peng, Y K.M., and Rutherford, P H. FED-A, an advanced performance FED based on low safety factor and current drive. United States: N. p., 1983. Web. doi:10.2172/6028937.
Peng, Y K.M., & Rutherford, P H. FED-A, an advanced performance FED based on low safety factor and current drive. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6028937
Peng, Y K.M., and Rutherford, P H. 1983. "FED-A, an advanced performance FED based on low safety factor and current drive". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6028937. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6028937.
@article{osti_6028937,
title = {FED-A, an advanced performance FED based on low safety factor and current drive},
author = {Peng, Y K.M. and Rutherford, P H},
abstractNote = {The FED-A study aims to quantify the potential improvement in cost-effectiveness of the Fusion Engineering Device (FED) by assuming low safety factor q (less than 2 as opposed to about 3) at the plasma edge and noninductive current drive (as opposed to only inductive current drive). The FED-A performance objectives are set to be : (1) ignition assuming International Tokamak Reactor (INTOR) plamsa confinement scaling, but still achieving a fusion power amplification Q greater than or equal to 5 when the confinement is degraded by a factor of 2; (2) neutron wall loading of about 1 MW/m/sup 2/, with 0.5 MW/m/sup 2/ as a conservative lower bound; and (3) more clearly power-reactor-like operations, such as steady state.},
doi = {10.2172/6028937},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6028937}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983},
month = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983}
}