TIBER (Tokamak Ignition/Burn Experimental Reactor) 2 as a precursor to an international thermonuclear experimental reactor
Abstract
The Tokamak Ignition/Burn Experimental Reactor (TIBER) was pursued in the U.S. as one option for an International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). This concept evolved from earlier work on the Tokamak Fusion Core Experiment (TFCX) to develop a small, ignited tokamak. While the copper-coil versions of TFCX became the short-pulsed, 1.23-m radius, Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT), the superconducting TIBER with long pulse or steady state and a 2.6-m radius was considered for international collaboration. Recently the design was updated to TIBER 2, to accommodate more conservative confinement scaling, double-poloidal divertors for impurity control, steady-state current drive, and nuclear testing.
- Publication:
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Presented at the International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology
- Pub Date:
- April 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988fnt..sympR....H
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Reactors;
- Thermonuclear Reactions;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Reactor Design;
- Reactor Technology;
- Plasma Physics