Challenges and status of ITER conductor production

A Devred, I Backbier, D Bessette… - Superconductor …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Taking the relay of the large Hadron collider (LHC) at CERN, ITER has become the largest
project in applied superconductivity. In addition to its technical complexity, ITER is also a …

Superconductors for fusion: a roadmap

N Mitchell, J Zheng, C Vorpahl, V Corato… - Superconductor …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
With the first tokamak designed for full nuclear operation now well into final assembly (ITER),
and a major new research tokamak starting commissioning (JT60SA), nuclear fusion is …

Unified scaling law for flux pinning in practical superconductors: I. Separability postulate, raw scaling data and parameterization at moderate strains

JW Ekin - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The unified strain-and-temperature scaling law underlies the many pinning-force-model
expressions proposed to parameterize the dependence of the critical current I c on magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] The DEMO magnet system–Status and future challenges

V Corato, C Vorpahl, K Sedlak, VA Anvar… - Fusion engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the pre-concept design of the European DEMO Magnet System, which has
successfully passed the DEMO plant-level gate review in 2020. The main design input …

Development of MQXF: The Nb3Sn Low- Quadrupole for the HiLumi LHC

P Ferracin, G Ambrosio, M Anerella… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The High Luminosity (HiLumi) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project has, as the main
objective, to increase the LHC peak luminosity by a factor five and the integrated luminosity …

Status of ITER conductor development and production

A Devred, I Backbier, D Bessette… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ITER magnet coils are wound from Cable-In-Conduit Conductors (CICC) made up of
superconducting and copper strands assembled into a multistage, rope-type cable inserted …

L-mode-edge negative triangularity tokamak reactor

M Kikuchi, T Takizuka, S Medvedev, T Ando… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The negative triangularity tokamak (NTT) is a unique reactor concept based on'power-
handling-first'philosophy with the heat exhaust problem as the leading concern. The present …

The HL-LHC low-β quadrupole magnet MQXF: From short models to long prototypes

P Ferracin, G Ambrosio, M Anerella… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Among the components to be upgraded in LHC interaction regions for the HiLumi-LHC
projects are the inner triplet (or low-β) quadrupole magnets, denoted as Q1, Q2a, Q2b, and …

The effect of axial and transverse loading on the transport properties of ITER Nb3Sn strands

A Nijhuis, RPP van Meerdervoort… - Superconductor …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The differences in thermal contraction of the composite materials in a cable in conduit
conductor (CICC) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), in …

[HTML][HTML] The MAgnet Design Explorer algorithm (MADE) for LTS, Hybrid or HTS toroidal and poloidal systems of a tokamak with a view to DEMO

L Giannini, L Muzzi, A Portone, G Romanelli… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Roadmap to Fusion Electricity (Federici et al., 2018)[1] details the
path to complete within the next three decades the DEMOnstration power plant, DEMO …