ZTI: Preliminary characterization of an ignition class reversed-field pinch
Abstract
A preliminary cost-optimized conceptual design of an intermediate-step, ignition-class reverse-field pinch (RFP) device (ZTI) for the study of alpha-particle physics in a deuterium (DT) plasma is reported. The ZTI design reflects potentially significant cost savings relative to similar ignition-class tokamaks for device parameters that reside on the path to a viable commercial RFP reactor. Reductions in both device costs and number of steps to commercialization portend a significantly reduced development cost for fusion. The methodology and result and coupling realistic physics, engineering, and cost models through a multi-dimensional optimizer are reported for ZTI, which is a device that would follow the 2 to 4 MAzth on an approximately greater than 1996 to 98 timescale.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 9th Topical Meeting on Technology of Fusion Energy
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990tfe..meetS...7B
- Keywords:
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- Alpha Particles;
- Deuterium Plasma;
- Ignition;
- Reverse Field Pinch;
- Tokamak Devices;
- Cost Reduction;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Physics