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Title: STARLITE figures of merit for tokamak current drive -- Economic analysis of pulsed and steady state power plants with various engineering and physics performance parameters

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/161566· OSTI ID:161566
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
  2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Plasma Physics Lab.

The physics efficiency of current drive ({gamma}{sub B} {proportional_to} n{sub e} I{sub 0} R{sub 0}/P{sub CD}), including the bootstrap effect, needs to exceed certain goals in order to provide economical steady state operation compared to pulsed power plants. The goal for {gamma}{sub B} depends not only on engineering performance of the current drive system, but also on normalized beta and the effective safety factor of the achievable MHD equilibrium.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
161566
Report Number(s):
ANL/FPP/TM-284; ON: DE96003478; TRN: AHC29601%%121
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English