Tokamak Power Plant Burn Cycle Options
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 26 / Number 3P2 / November 1994 / Pages 1133-1140
Fusion Power Reactor, Economic, and Alternate Concept / Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40306
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Experiments show that tokamaks can operate in various fashions. Economic analyses show that steady state is most attractive provided the physics and technology of current drive (CD) can be modestly improved. Even with very conservative CD assumptions a hybrid operating mode seems superior to conventional, simple inductive operation.
