Spherical torus concept as power plants - The ARIES-ST study

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-164

  Najmabadi, F ^a   Billone, M ^b   Bromberg, L ^f   Chan, V ^e   Dahlgren, F ^g   Deuser, D A ^c   El Guebaly, L A ⁱ   Fan, H M ^g   Jardin, S C ^g   Khater, H Y ⁱ   Kessel, C E ^g   Lao, L ^e   Linliu, Y R ^e   Malang, S ^d   Mau, T K ^a   Menard, J ^g   Miller, R ^a   Miller, R L ^e   Mogahed, E A ⁱ   Neumeyer, C ^g   Petrie, T ^e   Politzer, P ^e   Pourrahimi, S ^f   Pulsifer, J ^a   Reiersen, W ^g   Schultz, J H ^f   Slattery, K T ^c   Stambaugh, R D ^e   Steiner, D ^h   Sviatoslavsky, I ⁱ   Sze, D K ^b   Tillack, M S ^a   Titus, P ^f   Turnbull, A D ^e   Wang, X R ^a   Waganer, L M ^c   Wille, G W ^c   Zatz, I ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^h RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion power plants; Spherical tokamark; Spherical torus

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FERRITE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; STEEL; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

THERMAL CONVERSION;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 0037322519     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(02)00302-2     Document Type: Article

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