Engineering design and analysis of the ARIES-CS power plant

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 725-746

  Raffray, A R ^a   El Guebaly, L ^b   Malang, S ^c   Wang, X R ^a   Bromberg, L ^d   Ihli, T ^e   Merrill, B ^f   Waganer, L ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center ^*  (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact stellarator; Design integration; Fusion power plant

Indexed keywords

ALLOY STEEL; BRAYTON CYCLE; COOLANTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING; FERRITE; FUSION REACTIONS; INTEGRATION; LEAD; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAINTENANCE; PLASMA DEVICES; TUNGSTEN;

COMPACT STELLARATOR POWER PLANT; COMPACT STELLARATORS; DESIGN INTEGRATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES; ENGINEERING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; FUSION POWER PLANT; POWER ACCOMMODATIONS; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS;

FERRITIC STEEL;

EID: 56049114916     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST08-4     Document Type: Article

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