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Author: Jonathan E Menard
Requested Type: Consider for Invited
Submitted: 2025-03-09 23:42:18
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Contact Info:
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
100 Stellarator Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
United States
Abstract Text:
Compact high-field superconducting tokamaks and stellarators are being proposed in the U.S. as a means of potentially reducing the capital cost and cost of electricity of a fusion power plant. This presentation will review several steady-state advanced tokamak, spherical tokamak, and stellarator pilot/power concepts to compare projected performance, identify outstanding science issues in fusion facility design, and elucidate theory and modelling capability gaps that need to be closed to achieve more reliable fusion system design. Special attention will be paid to recent theory and modelling advances and remaining open scientific questions for low-aspect-ratio tokamak steady-state fusion pilot/power plants.
Characterization: 5.0
Comments:
This is an invited plenary presentation.