STARFIRE, a commercial tokamak power plant design

Baker, C.C.; Abdou, Mohamed; Boley, C. D.; Bolon, A.E.; Brooks, J.N.; Clemmer, R.G.; Ehst, D.A.; Evans, K.; Finn, P.A.; Fuja, R.; Gohar, Y.; Jung, J.; Kann, W.J.; Mattas, R.F.; Misra, Β. N.; Schreyer, H. L.; Smith, D.L.; Stevens, H.; Turner, L.R.; Freece, D.A. De; Dillow, C.; Morgan, G.D.; Trachsel, C.A.; Graumann, D.; Alcorn, J.; Fields, R.E.; Prater, R.; Kokoszenski, J.; Barry, Kevin; Cherry, Michael; Klumpe, H.W.; Conn, R.W.; Emmert, G.A.; Sviatoslavsky, I.N.; Sze, D.K.

doi:10.1016/0029-5493(81)90044-3

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“…These studies progressed steadily from the 1970 pulsed UWMAK series [15] and TVE-2500 [16], to the 1980 STARFIRE [17] (that first promoted steady-state current drive), to the more advanced 1990s steady-state ARIES series [18]. The 1970s US designs uncovered undesirable aspects of pulsed operation and low power density machines, plasma impurity control problems, and maintainability issues.…”

Section: Magnetic Fusion Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Even though scientific break-even (the point at which the energy produced by a fusion reaction equals the energy used to sustain it) cannot be demonstrated at present, results from on-going physics experiments have induced sufficient confidence to the point of involving large industries and utilities, with government support, to commit large sums of money for basic technology development. Designs of demonstration and commercial reactor concepts have been studied and reported 10-16, and engineering related efforts of second generation designs are continuing as represented by STARFIRE 17 . More interests have been generated recently in developing and building hardware for fusion power reactors, by either extrapolating the technologies from existing experimental devices, or by designing, conducting experiments, and establishing modules that would simulate the requirements of a power reactor.…”

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Closed-Cycle Gas Turbine Applications for Fusion Reactors

McDonald

Wong

1981

Volume 2: Coal, Biomass and Alternative Fuels; Combustion and Fuels; Oil and Gas Applications; Cycle Innovations

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There is increasing worldwide interest in fusion reactors as an energy source for electrical power generation. For such plants, which are projected for operation in the early decades of the 21st century, the choice of thermodynamic cycle for conversion of fusion reactor heat into electricity plays an important role in studies currently in the embryonic stage to evaluate performance, economics, safety, and operational features. A brief outline is given of some of the fusion reactor types currently under investigation. In this paper emphasis is placed on the utilization of a closed-cycle helium gas turbine power conversion system since its operational flexibility with regard to power and heat production and adaptability to economic dry cooling seem well suited to projected user energy needs of the future. The promise of an efficiency of over 50 percent (when operated in a binary cycle mode) makes the closed-cycle gas turbine an attractive power conversion system candidate as the goal of power production through a sustained fusion reaction in a confined plasma is realized. It is projected that the coupling of a closed-cycle gas turbine to a fusion reactor represents a challenging task for gas turbine engineers in the 21st century, and may be regarded as the ultimate application of the gas turbine prime-mover.

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“…The nine blanket concepts are assumed to be operated In either a tokamak (STARFIRE reference) 2 or a mirror (MARS reference}' reactor.…”

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A Systematic Methodology for Estimating Direct Capital Costs for Blanket Tritium Processing Systems

Finn

1985

Fusion Technology

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STARFIRE, a commercial tokamak power plant design

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

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

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

Closed-Cycle Gas Turbine Applications for Fusion Reactors

A Systematic Methodology for Estimating Direct Capital Costs for Blanket Tritium Processing Systems

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