TNS quarterly progress report, October--December 1976

Technical Report · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:6720437

Flanagan, C A; Varljen, T C; Heck, F M; Gibson, G; French, J W ^[1]

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The TNS effort during the October-November-December, 1976 period was primarily focused on the development of information to support a toroidal field coil technology and plasma size decision. Our plan calls for the development of systematic study ground rules, development of system, subsystem and component physical and cost models, development of selection criteria and finally, the evaluation of specific quantifiable and nonquantifiable factors to arrive at the selection of a reference TNS configuration. During the past quarter ground rules were established for the modeling of TNS systems and calculational model development initiated to generate quantitative information concerning the size and cost of selected machines in the TNS design space. Four parallel TNS design options have been defined for the trade studies, involving water-cooled copper, superconducting NbTi, superconducting Nb/sub 3/Sn, and hybrid copper/NbTi TF coil machine versions. The effort associated with the development of the design concepts and models of the four TNS approaches is described in this report, along with some preliminary trade study results and conclusions. It should be noted that this work is on-going and the models and ground rules are subject to continuous review and modification.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Fusion Power Systems Dept.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6720437
• Report Number(s): ORNL/Sub-7117/3; WFPS-TME-050
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ALLOYS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CONTROL
COST
DESIGN
ELECTRIC COILS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROMAGNETS
EQUIPMENT
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
IMPURITIES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MAGNET COILS
MAGNETS
MATERIALS HANDLING
NIOBIUM ALLOYS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
PLANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TIN ALLOYS
TITANIUM ALLOYS
TNS REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS
TRITIUM
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES