ELMO Bumpy Torus Reactor and power plant: conceptual design study

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5785986

Bathke, C G; Dudziak, D J; Krakowski, R A

A complete power plant design of a 1200-MWe ELMO Bumpy Torus Reactor (EBTR) is presented. An emphasis is placed on those features that are unique to the EBT confinement concept, with subsystems and balance-of-plant items that are more generic to magnetic fusion being adapted from past, more extensive tokamak reactor designs. Similar to the latter tokamak studies, this conceptual EBTR design also emphasizes the use of conventional or near state-of-the-art engineering technology and materials. An emphasis is also placed on system accessibility, reliability, and maintainability, as these crucial and desirable characteristics relate to the unique high-aspect-ratio configuration of EBTs. Equal and strong emphasis is given to physics, engineering/technology, and costing/economics components of this design effort. Parametric optimizations and sensitivity studies, using cost-of-electricity as an object function, are reported. Based on these results, the direction for future improvement on an already attractive reactor design is identified.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5785986
• Report Number(s): LA-8882-MS; ON: DE82002437
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700200* -- Fusion Energy-- Fusion Power Plant Technology
COST
DESIGN
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC COILS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELMO BUMPY TORUS
ELMO DEVICES
ENGINEERING
EQUIPMENT
HEATING
MAGNET COILS
MAGNETIC MIRRORS
OPEN PLASMA DEVICES
PLASMA HEATING
POWER PLANTS
THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
VACUUM SYSTEMS