The liquid lead-lithium (PbLi) blanket concept has become a promising design for fusion DEMO and power plant reactors. To promote the successful application of fusion energy, some R&D; activities on the PbLi blanket have been performed, such as structure material corrosion, thermal hydraulics, magnetic-hydrodynamic (MHD) effect, coolant impurities technology and LOCA/LOFA, etc.. Therefore, it...
As one of typical blanket concepts for Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR), a conceptual structure of helium cooled solid breeder (HCSB) blanket was designed by USTC. Considering that electromagnetic load is one of the main concerns for the blanket module, a FEM (finite element method) model of the HCSB was developed and the electromagnetic analysis of the blanket module was...
Steady-State Superconducting Tokamak-1 (SST-1) has 16 Toroidal field (TF) and 9 superconducting poloidal field (PF) coils rated for 10 kA DC. TF coils are connected in series and operated in DC condition, whereas PF coils are operated independently in pulse mode. SST-1 current feeder system (CFS) houses 9 pairs of PF superconducting current leads and 1 pair of TF superconducting current leads....
Tight regulation of the burn condition in ITER has been proven possible even under time-dependent variations in the fuel concentration by the use of robustification techniques. One of the most fundamental control problems arising in ITER and future burning-plasma tokamaks is the regulation of the plasma temperature and density to produce a determined amount of fusion power while avoiding...
Solenoid free start-up scenario is the way to utilize loop voltage from the evolution of equilibrium field using outer PF coils. Also, it can be expected to be as an attractive start-up scheme in the fusion machines with low aspect ratio since flux from external inductance change can be utilized. The solenoid free start-up experiments using outer PF coils have been conducted in various...