Overview of the ARIES-RS reversed-shear tokamak power plant study

Najmabadi, F.; Bathke, C.G.; Billone, M.C.; Blanchard, James P.; Bromberg, L.; Chin, E.; Cole, F.R.; Crowell, Jeffrey A. W.; Ehst, D.A.; El-Guebaly, L.; Herring, J.S.; Hua, T.Q.; Jardin, S.C.; Kessel, C.; Khater, H. Y.; Lee, V.Dennis; Malang, S.; Mau, T. K.; Miller, R.L.; Mogahed, E.A.; Pétrie, T.W.; Reis, E.E.; Schultz, J.H.; Sidorov, Maxim; Steiner, D.; Sviatoslavsky, I.N.; Sze, D.K.; Thayer, R.; Tillack, M. S.; Titus, P.; Wagner, Lester M; Wang, Xueren; Wong, C.P.C.

doi:10.1016/s0920-3796(97)00110-5

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“…In the 1980s, the US temporarily impeded the large-scale tokamak studies to investigate several alternate concepts (refer to Figure 1). The tokamak studies were resumed in the early 1990s by the ARIES team, delivering a series of advanced tokamak power plants: ARIES-I [19], ARIES-II and ARIES-IV [20], ARIES-RS [21], and ARIES-AT [22]. Improvements were apparent in all designs, progressing from ARIES-I to ARIES-AT.…”

Section: Magnetic Fusion Conceptsmentioning

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Fifty Years of Magnetic Fusion Research (1958–2008): Brief Historical Overview and Discussion of Future Trends

El-Guebaly¹

2010

Energies

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Fifty years ago, the secrecy surrounding magnetically controlled thermonuclear fusion had been lifted allowing researchers to freely share technical results and discuss the challenges of harnessing fusion power. There were only four magnetic confinement fusion concepts pursued internationally: tokamak, stellarator, pinch, and mirror. Since the early 1970s, numerous fusion designs have been developed for the four original and three new approaches: spherical torus, field-reversed configuration, and spheromak. At present, the tokamak is regarded worldwide as the most viable candidate to demonstrate fusion energy generation. Numerous power plant studies (>50), extensive R&D programs, more than 100 operating experiments, and an impressive international collaboration led to the current wealth of fusion information and understanding. As a result, fusion promises to be a major part of the energy mix in the 21 st century. The fusion roadmaps developed to date take different approaches, depending on the anticipated power plant concept and the degree of extrapolation beyond ITER. Several Demos with differing approaches will be built in the US, EU, Japan, China, Russia, Korea, India, and other countries to cover the wide range of near-term and advanced fusion systems.

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Section: Magnetic Fusion Conceptsmentioning

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Fifty Years of Magnetic Fusion Research (1958–2008): Brief Historical Overview and Discussion of Future Trends

El-Guebaly¹

2010

Energies

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“…10,11) One of the attractive features of this blanket system is that the neutron multiplying beryllium is in most cases not necessary for obtaining the required Tritium Breeding Ratio (TBR). This is confirmed recently by neutronics calculation both for Tokamak and Helical reactor systems.…”

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Vanadium Alloys for Fusion Blanket Applications

Muroga

2005

Mater. Trans.

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Vanadium alloys are attractive candidate structural materials for breeding blanket of fusion reactors because of their low activation properties and high temperature strength. Studies on various blanket designs are being carried out using vanadium alloys as structural materials and liquid lithium or molten salt Flibe as breeding and coolant materials. Recently significant progress in fabrication technology has been made for vanadium alloys through a program of producing large ingots of high purity V-4Cr-4Ti (NIFS-HEATs). Fundamental understandings on the effects of interstitial impurities (C, N, O) on mechanical properties, radiation effects on microstructure and mechanical properties, corrosion and compatibility in various environments were enhanced. New promising candidates were identified for the MHD insulator coating. Among the remaining critical issues are the effects of transmutant helium on mechanical properties and development of long life MHD coating. Development of vanadium alloys will be carried out in coordination with IFMIF and ITER-TBM schedules as essential tools for verification of their performance in fusion blanket environments.

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“…Safety and environmental attractiveness have been major drivers for the past decade, since they are viewed as important discriminators between fission and fusion. The possibility to provide a fusion energy system that can be designed without the need to consider the deep burial of waste or worst-case accidents that affect the public has been established in studies such as ARIES-RS [13] and SEAFP [14].…”

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“…The ARIES-RS design was guided by the toplevel requirements discussed in Section 2 and Table 1 [13,[21][22][23][24]. A high performance plasma core operating in the reversed-shear mode is chosen (see Fig.…”

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