Role of the large coil program in the development of superconducting magnets for fusion reactors

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6412492

Haubenreich, P N; Luton, J N; Thompson, P B

Three U.S. industrial teams are designing and will build one coil each to a common set of specifications. Coil specifications and test conditions were chosen to insure maximum relevance to fusion program needs. Each test coil will have a 2.5 x 3.5 m D-shape bore, will contain about 7 MA-turns, and must operate at a peak field of 8 T while subjected to pulsed fields up to 0.14 T in a test stand that can accommodate up to 6 coils in a compact toroidal array. Coils by General Dynamics/Convair and General Electric will use different NbTi conductors cooled by pool-boiling helium. The Westinghouse coil will use Nb/sub 3/Sn cooled by a forced flow of supercritical helium. These coils will be delivered in 1980 and 1981 for testing in the Large Coil Test Facility at Oak Ridge in a compact toroidal array with three coils from outside the U.S. These will be produced by EURATOM, Japan, and Switzerland for testing under an International Energy Agency agreement.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6412492
• Report Number(s): CONF-780952-5; TRN: 79-006392
• Resource Relation: Conference: Applied superconductivity conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 25 Sep 1978
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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