Superconducting magnet development for tokamaks and mirrors: a technical assessment
The role of superconducting magnets in Magnetic Fusion Energy Research and Development is assessed from a consideration of program plans and schedules, the present status of the programs and the research and development suggestions arising from recent studies and workshops. A principal conclusion is that the large superconducting magnet systems needed for commercial magnetic fusion reactors can be constructed. However such magnets working under severe conditions, with increasingly stringent reliability, safety and cost restrictions can never be built unless experience is first gained in a number of important installations designed to prove physics and technology steps on the way to commercial power demonstration. The immediate problem is to design a technology program in the absence of definite device needs and specifications, giving a priority weighting to the multiplicity of good, high quality development program suggestions when all proposals cannot be supported.
- Research Organization:
- Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. (USA). Div. of Magnetic Fusion Energy
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 5154237
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ET-0016; TRN: 78-006418
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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