Cryogenic engineering and fusion power

In order to reduce the consumption of power for the magnets of a fusion power plant to acceptable proportions, it is necessary that fusion reactors must use either cryogenically cooled or superconducting coils. The cryogenic aspects of reactor design are discussed. It is found that the most difficult cryogenic engineering problems of fusion reactors are mainly those caused by the large size of the superconducting magnets. Major approaches to fusion power are considered.