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Overview of Performance Test of Korean CICCs for ITER TF Magnet

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

The Korean Domestic Agency (KODA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has taken the responsibility of the procurement of cable-in-conduit conductors for the ITER toroidal field magnet. While procuring 27 conductor unit l ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

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The series production of Nb3Sn and NbTi cable-inconduit conductors (CICC) for the winding of various coils in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) magnet system is being completed in 2015. The tests of the ITER conductor samples are ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

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The design of the European DEMO, i.e., the future fusion tokamak planned after ITER, is being developed under the coordination of the EUROfusion Consortium. This paper reports the design optimization of the toroidal field (TF) winding pack and its correspo ...

2016

Test of 60 kA coated conductor cable prototypes for fusion magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche

Coated conductors could be promising materials for the fabrication of the large magnet systems of future fusion devices. Two prototype conductors (flat cables in steel conduits), each about 2 m long, were manufactured using coated conductor tapes (4 mm wid ...

2015

Although superconductivity will never produce energy by itself, it plays an important role in energy-related applications both because of its saving potential (e.g., power transmission lines and generators), and its role as an enabling technology (e.g., fo ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Assessment Studies and Manufacturing Trials for the Conductors of DEMO TF Coils

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

This paper reports the main outcomes of the 2013 design activities for the toroidal field magnet of the European nuclear fusion reactor DEMOnstration Power Plant (DEMO). Within the current project plan, the manufacture of full-size conductor prototypes dur ...

2015

The DEMO plant will demonstrate by mid century the feasibility of electric power generation by nuclear fusion. Since 2011, conceptual design studies are coordinated by the EFDA Power Plant Physics and Technology (PPPT) Division, with the aim of identifying ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Superconductivity and fusion energy—the inseparable companions

Pierluigi Bruzzone

2014

Summary of the Test Results of ITER Conductors in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

Abstract. After completing the qualification tests of the ITER cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC), the tests of samples from the series manufacture are running in the SULTAN test facility in Villigen, Switzerland. The key test for the conductor samples is ...

2014

Experimental and Analytical Approaches on JT-60SA TF Strand and TF Conductor Quality Control During Qualification and Production Manufacture Stages

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

In the framework of the JT-60SA project, aiming at upgrading the present JT-60U tokamak, Europe as part of its in-kind contribution within the Broader Approach agreement, will provide the full Toroidal Field (TF) magnet system. For this purpose, Fusion for ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013