Towards a compact spherical tokamak fusion pilot plant

AE Costley - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The question of size of a tokamak fusion reactor is central to current fusion research
especially with the large device, ITER, under construction and even larger DEMO reactors …

Thermal confinement and transport in spherical tokamaks: a review

SM Kaye, JW Connor, CM Roach - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we review the thermal plasma confinement and transport properties observed
and predicted in low aspect ratio tokamaks, or spherical tokamaks (STs), which can depart …

Compact fusion energy based on the spherical tokamak

A Sykes, AE Costley, CG Windsor, O Asunta… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Tokamak Energy Ltd, UK, is developing spherical tokamaks using high temperature
superconductor magnets as a possible route to fusion power using relatively small devices …

[HTML][HTML] Tritium supply and use: a key issue for the development of nuclear fusion energy

RJ Pearson, AB Antoniazzi, WJ Nuttall - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
Full power operation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has
been delayed and will now begin in 2035. Delays to the ITER schedule may affect the …

Electromagnetic gyrokinetic instabilities in step

D Kennedy, M Giacomin, FJ Casson… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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Plasma burn—mind the gap

H Meyer, STEP Plasma Team - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The programme to design plasma scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy
Production (STEP), a reactor concept aiming at net electricity production, seeks to exploit the …

Overview of the fusion nuclear science facility, a credible break-in step on the path to fusion energy

CE Kessel, JP Blanchard, A Davis, L El-Guebaly… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) is examined here as part of a two step
program from ITER to commercial power plants. This first step is considered mandatory to …

MHD stability and disruptions in the SPARC tokamak

R Sweeney, AJ Creely, J Doody, T Fülöp… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
SPARC is being designed to operate with a normalized beta of that rises linearly with a
change in the plasma current. Massive material injection is planned to reduce the disruption …

Advancements in the helium-cooled pebble bed breeding blanket for the EU DEMO: holistic design approach and lessons learned

FA Hernández, P Pereslavtsev, G Zhou… - Fusion Science and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The helium-cooled pebble bed (HCPB) blanket is one of the two concepts proposed as a
driver blanket for the European Union Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor (EU DEMO). In …

Energy confinement in the spherical tokamak Globus-M2 with a toroidal magnetic field reaching 0.8 T

GS Kurskiev, VK Gusev, NV Sakharov, YV Petrov… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The work presents the results of the energy confinement study carried out on the compact
spherical tokamak Globus-M2 with a toroidal magnetic field as high as 0.8 T. A reproducible …