Overview of the ARIES-RS reversed-shear tokamak power plant study

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 3-25

  Najmabadi, Farrokh ^a   Bathke, Charles G ^b   Billone, Michael C ^c   Blanchard, James P ^d   Bromberg, Leslie ^e   Chin, Edward ^f   Cole, Fredrick R ^g   Crowell, Jeffrey A ^d   Ehst, David A ^c   El Guebaly, Laila A ^d   Herring, J Stephen ^h   Hua, Thanh Q ^c   Jardin, Stephen C ⁱ   Kessel, Charles E ⁱ   Khater, Hesham ^d   Lee, V Dennis ^g   Malang, Siegfried ^a,j   Mau, Tak Kuen ^a   Miller, Ronald L ^a   Mogahed, Elsayed A ^d   Petrie, Thomas W ^f   Reis, Elmer E ^f   Schultz, Joel ^e   Sidorov, M ^e   Steiner, Don ^k   Sviatoslavsky, Igor N ^d   Sze, Dai Kai ^c   Thayer, Robert ^k   Tillack, Mark S ^a   Titus, Peter ^e   Wagner, Lester M ^g   Wang, Xueren ^a   Wong, Clement P C ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^g BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^h IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^j KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

ARIES RS; Reversed shear; Tokamak power plant

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BREEDING BLANKETS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INSULATING COATINGS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTOR SHIELDING; VANADIUM ALLOYS;

BOOTSTRAP CURRENT FRACTION; PLASMA CURRENTS; REVERSED SHEAR TOKAMAK POWER PLANTS; TOROIDAL FIELD COIL SYSTEMS;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0031372239     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(97)00110-5     Document Type: Article

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