Deployment of MAGS, a comprehensive tool for magnet design and safety analysis, for quench and arc simulation of an ITER-FEAT coil

Author

Pasler, Volker ; Bönisch, Günter ; Meyder, Rainer ; Schmitz, Gernot

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Reaktorsicherheit, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

3/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1574

Lastpage

1577

Abstract

The coil system of the ITER-FEAT research tokamak stores an energy of about 40 GJ. This amount of energy has to be removed in a safe and controlled manner from the system in case of an accident. As experimental possibilities are limited, numerical models are in great demand. MAGS (MAGnet System) represents a computer code system to simulate accident scenarios of magnet systems of fusion plants. It was used in the past to investigate accident scenarios of the ITER assembly which are required for licensing questions. In this work, the MAGS code is used to perform the safety analysis for a toroidal field (TF) coil of the new ITER-FEAT design becoming necessary due to changes in the magnet system compared to the previous ITER assembly. The analysis includes quench and arc scenarios.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; accidents; fusion reactor design; fusion reactor safety; nuclear engineering computing; numerical analysis; superconducting coils; superconducting magnet energy storage; superconducting magnets; 40 GJ; ITER-FEAT coil; ITER-FEAT design; ITER-FEAT research tokamak; MAGS; SMES; accident scenarios; arc simulation; computer code system; fusion reactors; magnet design; numerical models; quench simulation; safety analysis; Accidents; Analytical models; Coils; Computational modeling; Control systems; Magnetic analysis; Numerical models; Safety; Tokamaks; Toroidal magnetic fields;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2002.1018704

Filename

1018704