Engineering challenges in designing an attractive compact stellarator power plant

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 82, Issue 15-24, 2007, Pages 2696-2704

  Raffray, A R ^a   El Guebaly, L ^b   Ihli, T ^c   Malang, S ^d   Najmabadi, F ^a   Wang, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compact stellarator; Engineering design; Fusion power plant

Indexed keywords

STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COMPACT STELLARATOR; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FUSION POWER PLANT; NEUTRONICS; PLASMA-COIL DISTANCE;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 35148859828     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2007.05.023     Document Type: Article

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