The ARIES tokamak reactor study

Conference · Sun Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989

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
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700200* -- Fusion Energy-- Fusion Power Plant Technology
ABSTRACTS
BREEDING BLANKETS
CARBIDES
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
CONVERSION
DAMAGING NEUTRON FLUENCE
DESIGN
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY CONVERSION
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUILIBRIUM
FLUID FLOW
HEAT TRANSFER
LEADING ABSTRACT
MAGNETS
MATERIALS
MHD EQUILIBRIUM
NEUTRON FLUENCE
PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
SAFETY
SILICON CARBIDES
SILICON COMPOUNDS
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR MATERIALS
TOKAMAK DEVICES
TURBULENT FLOW