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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 7, 2405082 (2012)

Regular Articles

Critical Issues of Burning Plasma, Engineering, Economic and Environmental Assessments on Steady-State Fusion Reactors
Kozo YAMAZAKI, Tetsutarou OISHI and Hideki ARIMOTO
Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
(Received 9 December 2011 / Accepted 14 April 2012 / Published 26 July 2012)

Abstract

For burning plasma simulation and reactor system analysis on steady-state high beta fusion reactors, TOTAL physics code and PEC engineering code have been developed. From TOTAL analysis, it is clarified that by choosing appropriate external current drive profile, high bootstrap-current fraction is achieved in steady-state. From PEC analysis, it is found that the current drive efficiency should be raised for cost of electricity (COE) and CO2 reductions in rather low-beta reactors. Newly derived scaling formulas on COE and life-cycle CO2 emission rate might contribute to the future reactor design projection.

Keywords

tokamak reactor, bootstrap current, internal transport barrier, cost of electricity, global warming gas

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.7.2405082

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Kozo YAMAZAKI, Tetsutarou OISHI and Hideki ARIMOTO, Plasma Fusion Res. 7, 2405082 (2012).