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Overview on the Applicability of the ITER/NPP-Like Technologies to the DEMO Plant Electrical System and Promising Alternatives

Damien Fasel, Francesco Santoro, Elena Gaio, Zhe Chen, Alberto Ferro, Hanwen Zhang

The Plant Electrical System (PES) of the European DEMOnstration fusion power plant (DEMO), presently under conceptual design, shall supply power to the loads and deliver net power to the Power Transmission Grid (PTG). Starting from the available requiremen ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Applicability of the ITER-like EC HVPS design to the DEMO ECS

Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Elena Gaio, Alberto Ferro

Elsevier Science Sa2024

On the road to ITER NBIs: SPIDER improvement after first operation and MITICA construction progress

Elena Gaio, Riccardo Agnello, Michele Fadone, Alberto Ferro

To reach fusion conditions and control the plasma configuration in ITER, the next step in tokamak fusion research, two neutral beam injectors (NBIs) will supply 16.5 MW each, by neutralizing accelerated negative hydrogen or deuterium ions. The requirements ...

2021

Advance in the conceptual design of the European DEMO magnet system

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Davide Uglietti, Elena Gaio, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino, Mithlesh Kumar, Vincenzo D'Auria, Ortensia Dicuonzo, Chiara Frittitta, Alberto Ferro

The European DEMO, i.e. the demonstration fusion power plant designed in the framework of the Roadmap to Fusion Electricity by the EUROfusion Consortium, is approaching the end of the pre-conceptual design phase, to be accomplished with a Gate Review in 20 ...

2020

Overview of the RFX-mod fusion science activity

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Elena Gaio, Leonardo Pigatto, Nicola Vianello, Yi Zhang, Matteo Vallar, Alberto Ferro

This paper reports the main recent results of the RFX-mod fusion science activity. The RFX-mod device is characterized by a unique flexibility in terms of accessible magnetic configurations. Axisymmetric and helically shaped reversed-field pinch equilibria ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of progress on the EU DEMO magnet system design

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Elena Gaio, Kamil Sedlák

The DEMO reactor is expected to be the first application of fusion for electricity generation in the near future. To this aim conceptual design activities are progressing in Europe (EU) under the lead of the EUROfusion Consortium in order to drive on the d ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Overview of the RFX-mod contribution to the international Fusion Science Program

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Elena Gaio, Leonardo Pigatto, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Ferro

The RFX-mod device is operated both as a reversed field pinch (RFP), where advanced regimes featuring helical shape develop, and as a tokamak. Due to its flexibility, RFX-mod is contributing to the solution of key issues in the roadmap to ITER and DEMO, in ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Overview of the RFX-mod fusion science programme

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Avino, Elena Gaio, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Ferro

This paper reports the highlights of the RFX-mod fusion science programme since the last 2010 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. The RFX-mod fusion science programme focused on two main goals: exploring the fusion potential of the reversed field pinch (RFP) ma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Overview of the RFX fusion science program

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Elena Gaio, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Ferro, Zheng Wang

This paper summarizes the main achievements of the RFX fusion science program in the period between the 2008 and 2010 IAEA Fusion Energy Conferences. RFX-mod is the largest reversed field pinch in the world, equipped with a system of 192 coils for active c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2011