论文标题
稳态与脉冲托卡马克反应堆
Steady State versus Pulsed Tokamak Reactors
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论文摘要
我们进行了详细的分析，该分析比较了稳态与脉冲托卡马克反应堆。动机如下。稳态电流的驱动效果比预期的要困难得多 - 驱动安培需要太多瓦特，这对电力平衡和经济性产生负面影响。这是由于最近的高温Rebco超导体的最新发展所弥补的，后者提供了更紧凑，成本较低的Tokamak反应堆，无论是稳态还是脉冲。更新的兴趣是脉冲反应堆的尺寸降低，因为具有较高的场OH变压器可能需要给定的脉冲大小。我们的主要结论是，脉冲反应堆确实可能与稳态反应器具有竞争力，并且应该通过更详细的工程水平研究对此问题进行重新检查。
We have carried out a detailed analysis that compares steady state versus pulsed tokamak reactors. The motivations are as follows. Steady state current drive has turned out to be more difficult than expected - it takes too many watts to drive an Ampere, which has a negative effect on power balance and economics. This is partially compensated by the recent development of high temperature REBCO superconductors, which offers the promise of more compact, lower cost tokamak reactors, both steady state and pulsed. Of renewed interest is the reduction in size of pulsed reactors because of the possibility of higher field OH transformers for a given required pulse size. Our main conclusion is that pulsed reactors may indeed be competitive with steady state reactors and this issue should be re-examined with more detailed engineering level studies.
