ITER Power Supply Innovations and Advancements
Authors: C.L. Neumeyer, et. al.
Abstract:
The ITER Power Supply it will be the largest ever
built in terms of power, pulse length, and energy capacity. It will
also be responsible for fast discharge of the ITER
superconducting magnets whose energy storage will be at an
unprecedented scale. Nearly all of the components that comprise
the system will be unique, custom designed items that will exceed
the prior state of the art. This paper describes the ITER power
supply system and its components with an emphasis on the
extrapolation in scale and technology compared to the
TFTR/JET/JT-60/T-15 era of large tokamaks with normal
(copper) magnets as well as the present fleet of superconducting
tokamaks (EAST, KSTAR). The main design issues, the chosen
design solutions, and the collaborative design process will be
described. The present state of development of the components
by the Domestic Agencies is summarized, and areas of
technological advancement are highlighted.
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Submitted to: SOFE 2013 Proeedings (June 0213) 25th Symposium on Fusion Engineering, San Francisdco, CA (June 10-14, 2013)
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