| Autor: |
Chapman IT; UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus , Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK., Cowley SC; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 100 Stellarator Road , Princeton, NJ 08540, USA., Wilson HR; Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences [Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci] 2024 Oct 09; Vol. 382 (2280), pp. 20230416. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 26. |
| DOI: |
10.1098/rsta.2023.0416 |
| Abstrakt: |
This theme issue collects together papers summarising the conceptual design of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). In 2019, the UK government funded the first design stages of a prototype fusion powerplant based on a compact toroidal geometry, called STEP. The primary technical aims of STEP are to produce net energy, to be self-sufficient in tritium fuel and to demonstrate a maintenance regime that would extrapolate to appropriate availability for commercial powerplants. After 5 years and over 1000 person-years of detailed scientific and engineering conceptual design, this theme issue acts as a compendium of the current design basis for STEP, noting that this is a snapshot in time and that the design will continue to evolve. This article is part of the theme issue 'Delivering Fusion Energy - The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)'. |
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MEDLINE |
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