Design description of the saddle coils for the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX)

Author

Williamson, D. ; Brooks, A. ; Brown, T. ; Cole, M. ; Fan, H.M. ; Goranson, P. ; Hechler, M. ; Heitzenroeder, P. ; Nelson, B. ; Reiersen, W.T.

Author_Institution

Lockheed Martin Energy Syst., Oak Ridge, TN, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

444

Abstract

The National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) is proposed as a test of a low aspect ratio, quasi-axisymetric plasma configuration that exhibits high beta and good confinement in a disruption-free environment. The experiment will be built on the site of the Princeton Beta Experiment (PBX-M) tokamak and utilize many of the existing coils and ancillary equipment. A stellarator core, which includes the vacuum vessel, saddle coils with supporting structure, and a cryostat will be constructed off-site and placed-into the existing facility. This paper describes the pre-conceptual design of the saddle coils and structural shell components of the core

Keywords

coils; electromagnets; fusion reactor design; stellarators; NCSX; National Compact Stellarator Experiment; saddle coils; stellarator; structural shell components; Coils; Design engineering; Design optimization; Physics; Plasma confinement; Plasma devices; Structural shells; Thermal expansion; Thermal stresses; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 1999. 18th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5829-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.1999.849874

Filename

849874