Vandellos: A European site for ITER

Author

Alejaldre, C. ; Doncel, J. ; Ibarra, A. ; Medrano, M. ; Brañas, B. ; Garcia, A. ; Rodriguez-Rodrigo, L. ; Jiménez, J.A. ; Balbin, R. ; De Mora, Miguel Angel Sánchez ; Alcalá, F. ; Diez, J.E. ; Prades, A. ; Sola, R. ; Sedano, L. ; Robles, B. ; Suanez, A. ;

Author_Institution

CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

48

Abstract

On April 17^th 2002, Spanish Government formally offered the Vandellos site as a possible European ITER site. In this work main technical site specific characteristics of the site are compared with generic requirements. It is shown that Vandellos site offers a number of technical advantages over the reference design mainly in relation with the geotechnical and seismic assumptions as well as in relation with heat sink, electrical supply and heavy transport topics.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor safety; heat sinks; plasma toroidal confinement; European ITER site; Vandellos; electrical supply; geotechnical assumption; heat sink; heavy transport; seismic assumption; technical site specific characteristics; Appropriate technology; Collaboration; Fusion reactor design; Government; Heat sinks; Inductors; Magnetic confinement; Plasma confinement; Resistance heating; Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 2003. 20th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7908-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.2003.1425874

Filename

1425874