Advancing Fusion by Innovations: Smaller, Quicker, Cheaper

On the path to Fusion power, the construction of ITER is on-going, however there is not much progress in performance improvements of tokamaks in the last 15 years, Fig.1. One possible reason for this stagnation is the lack of innovations in physics and technology that could be implemented with this...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2015-03, Vol.591 (1), p.12005
Main Authors: Gryaznevich, M P, Chuyanov, V A, Kingham, D, Sykes, A
Format: Article
Language:English
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Innovations
Nuclear power plants
Physics
Tokamak devices
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Summary:On the path to Fusion power, the construction of ITER is on-going, however there is not much progress in performance improvements of tokamaks in the last 15 years, Fig.1. One possible reason for this stagnation is the lack of innovations in physics and technology that could be implemented with this approach in which progress is expected mainly from the increase in the size of a Fusion device. Such innovations could be easier to test and use in much smaller (and so cheaper and quicker to build) compact Fusion devices. In this paper we propose a new path to Fusion energy based on a compact high field Spherical Tokamak approach.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/591/1/012005