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An Economically Competitive Fusion Reactor

M. Kikuchi

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 30 / Number 3P2B / December 1996 / Pages 1631-1635

Fusion Power Plants and Economics / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963184

Published:February 9, 2018

A reactor concept is proposed to improve economical competitiveness of the tokamak fusion reactor with aggressive physics and engineering assumptions. Key elements are high field magnets with Bmax=21T with high normalized beta βN=4.2 with 80% bootstrap current fraction and the radiative divertor. The power plant should have large net electric power (~3.4GWe) with twin tokamak reactors. Significant simplification of tokamak auxiliary system is also required.