Energy storage for tokamak reactor cycles
Abstract
Energy storage to permit a fusion reactor powerplant to produce electric power during the inherent reactor downtime is feasible and inexpensive. Of the many energy storage methods and techniques that are possible throughout the plant heat transfer mechanisms, the preferred approach is the incorporation of a flash steam capability into the intermediate energy transfer loop medium/steam heat exchanger.
- Publication:
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EASCON 1978; Electronics and Aerospace Systems Convention
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978ieee.conf....1B
- Keywords:
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- Cost Estimates;
- Electric Power Plants;
- Energy Storage;
- Heat Exchangers;
- Reactor Design;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Boilers;
- Energy Technology;
- Energy Transfer;
- Feasibility Analysis;
- Fusion Reactors;
- Heat Storage;
- Helium;
- Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors;
- Steam Turbines;
- Engineering (General)