Starlite figures of merit for tokamak current drive-economic analysis of pulsed and steady state power plants with various engineering and physics performance parameters

Author

Ehst, David A.

Author_Institution

Argonne Nat. Lab., IL, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

30 Sep-5 Oct 1995

Firstpage

1182

Abstract

The physics efficiency of current drive (γ_B∝n_I0R₀/P_CD), including the bootstrap effect, needs to exceed certain goals in order to provide economical steady state operation compared to pulsed power plants. The goal for γ_B depends not only on engineering performance of the current drive system, but also on normalized beta and the effective safety factor of the achievable MHD equilibrium

Keywords

economics; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor operation; fusion reactors; achievable MHD equilibrium; bootstrap effect; economic analysis; economical steady state operation; effective safety factor; engineering performance; engineering performance parameters; normalized beta; physics efficiency; physics performance parameters; pulsed power plants; starlite figures of merit; steady state power plants; tokamak current drive; Costs; Magneto electrical resistivity imaging technique; Physics; Plasma stability; Power engineering and energy; Power generation; Power generation economics; Safety; Steady-state; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 1995. SOFE '95. Seeking a New Energy Era., 16th IEEE/NPSS Symposium

Conference_Location

Champaign, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2969-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.1995.534437

Filename

534437