| Autor: |
MANTA Collaboration, Rutherford, G., Wilson, H. S., Saltzman, A., Arnold, D., Ball, J. L., Benjamin, S., Bielajew, R., de Boucaud, N., Calvo-Carrera, M., Chandra, R., Choudhury, H., Cummings, C., Corsaro, L., DaSilva, N., Diab, R., Devitre, A. R., Ferry, S., Frank, S. J., Hansen, C. J., Jerkins, J., Johnson, J. D., Lunia, P., van de Lindt, J., Mackie, S., Maris, A. D., Mandell, N. R., Miller, M. A., Mouratidis, T., Nelson, A. O., Pharr, M., Peterson, E. E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, P., Segantin, S., Tobin, M., Velberg, A., Wang, A. M., Wigram, M., Witham, J., Paz-Soldan, C., Whyte, D. G. |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Druh dokumentu: |
Working Paper |
| Popis: |
The MANTA (Modular Adjustable Negative Triangularity ARC-class) design study investigated how negative-triangularity (NT) may be leveraged in a compact, fusion pilot plant (FPP) to take a ``power-handling first" approach. The result is a pulsed, radiative, ELM-free tokamak that satisfies and exceeds the FPP requirements described in the 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report ``Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid". A self-consistent integrated modeling workflow predicts a fusion power of 450 MW and a plasma gain of 11.5 with only 23.5 MW of power to the scrape-off layer (SOL). This low $P_\text{SOL}$ together with impurity seeding and high density at the separatrix results in a peak heat flux of just 2.8 MW/m$^{2}$. MANTA's high aspect ratio provides space for a large central solenoid (CS), resulting in ${\sim}$15 minute inductive pulses. In spite of the high B fields on the CS and the other REBCO-based magnets, the electromagnetic stresses remain below structural and critical current density limits. Iterative optimization of neutron shielding and tritium breeding blanket yield tritium self-sufficiency with a breeding ratio of 1.15, a blanket power multiplication factor of 1.11, toroidal field coil lifetimes of $3100 \pm 400$ MW-yr, and poloidal field coil lifetimes of at least $890 \pm 40$ MW-yr. Following balance of plant modeling, MANTA is projected to generate 90 MW of net electricity at an electricity gain factor of ${\sim}2.4$. Systems-level economic analysis estimates an overnight cost of US\$3.4 billion, meeting the NASEM FPP requirement that this first-of-a-kind be less than US\$5 billion. The toroidal field coil cost and replacement time are the most critical upfront and lifetime cost drivers, respectively. |
| Databáze: |
arXiv |
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