Prospects and issues for commercial fusion power systems

Overview of ARIES-RS tokamak fusion power plant

“…2-4 of Ref. [10] show, respectively, the reference reversed-shear plasma equilibrium, cut-way of the fusion core and vertical cut through a sector of the ARIES-RS design.…”

“…More details can be found in Refs. [10][11][12][13] in these proceedings and in the ARIES-RS final report [14].…”

Development of radiation resistant materials for advanced nuclear power plant

“…In general, candidate materials under consideration for ICF reactors include the same as selected for tokomak devices detailed above. 200,209 There is now a growing opinion that more resources should be devoted to ICF reactor research.…”

Economic goals and requirements for competitive fusion energy

“…Changing market and regulatory conditions, particularly in the US, prompt fundamental reconsideration of what constitutes a competitive future energy-source technology and has implications for the direction and emphasis of appropriate nearterm research and development programs, for fusion and other advanced generation systems. With fusion-concept optimization and selection in mind [4,5], tradeoffs among system power density, recirculating power, plant availability (reflecting both forced and planned outages), technical and operational complexity, and structural-materials and coolant choices are best monitored and resolved in the context of their impacts on capital and operating costs, which, together with (typically) low fusion fuel costs and exogenous financial assumptions, determine the product cost [e.g. cost of electricity (COE)].…”