Protections against grid breakdowns in the ITER neutral beam injector power supplies

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 82, Issue 5-14, 2007, Pages 905-911

  Bigi, M ^a,b   Toigo, V ^a   Zanotto, L ^a  

^a EURATOM ENEA Association ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Core snubber; Inverter; Neutral beam injector

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION;

CORE SNUBBER; GRID BREAKDOWNS; INTERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR; NEUTRAL BEAM INJECTOR;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 34948858456     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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