ISSN:
1572-9591
Keywords:
OCLATOR (One Coil Low Aspect Toroidal Reactor)
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tokamak reactor
;
single coil
;
many tokamaks per installation
;
demountable blanket
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
Notes:
Abstract A new approach to construct a tokamak-type reactor(s) is presented here. Basically, the return conductors of toroidal field coils are eliminated and the toroidal field coil is replaced by one single large coil, around which will be placed several tokamaks or other toroidal devices. The elimination of return conductors should, in addition to other advantages, improve the accessibility and maintainability of the tokamaks, and offer a possible alternative to the search for special materials to withstand large neutron wall loading, as the frequency of changeover would be increased due to minimum downtime. It also makes it possible to have a low aspect ratio tokamak, which should improve theβ limit, so that a low toroidal magnetic field strength might be acceptable, meaning that NbTi superconducting wire could be used. This system is named OCLATOR (One Coil Low Aspect Toroidal Reactor).
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01050657
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