A Comparison of Steady-State ARIES and Pulsed PULSAR Tokamak Power Plants
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 26 / Number 3P2 / November 1994 / Pages 1163-1168
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-A40311
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The multi-institutional ARIES team has completed a series of four steady-state and two pulsed cost-optimized conceptual designs of commercial tokamak fusion power plants. The level of assumed advances in technology and physics was varied from one design to the next. The cost benefits of various design options are compared quantitatively with an emphasis placed on pulsed versus steady-state operation. Possible means to improve the economic competitiveness of fusion are suggested.
