Status of Design and R&D for the ITER Feeder System Procurement in China

Author

Yuntao Song ; Kun Lu ; Xiongyi Huang ; Yong Chen ; Tingzhi Zhou ; Sumei Liu ; Bauer, P. ; Yanfang Bi ; Yonghua Chen ; Devred, A. ; Kaizhong Ding ; Niu, E. ; Chen-yu Gung ; Mitchell, N. ; Guang Shen ; Zhongwei Wang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Plasma Phys., Hefei, China

Volume

22

Issue

3

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

4800404

Lastpage

4800404

Abstract

The Procurement of the feeder system for The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) tokamak device started in ASIPP (China) in 2006. The relevant tasks of structural design and analysis have now come to an end, but the R&D activities started in 2009 for critical feeder components and key technology are still ongoing. Following the signature of the Procurement Arrangement between China and the ITER Organization (IO) in 2010, a great number of R&D tasks have been launched with the purpose of testing and verifying the original design, leading to design changes and optimizations. This paper mainly discusses the progress of the feeder design and R&D activities; it also presents some test results.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; high-temperature superconductors; procurement; research and development; ITER feeder system procurement; International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; procurement arrangement; research and development; structural design; tokamak device; Assembly; Coils; Ducts; Helium; High temperature superconductors; Instruments; Welding; Design; ITER; R&D; feeder;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2011.2182028

Filename

6117069