Conceptual design of modular throwaway tokamak commerical fusion power plants for the RIGGATRON approach to fusion power. Final report

The details are discussed of the parametric analyses carried out under this program, and two detailed examples are given of canonical fusion power plants based on the RIGGATRON high-field throwaway tokamak concept. One example is an upper limit (probably physically unattainable) case, Case A, and the other is a case with more conservative (and physically realistic) scaling, Case B. The Case A system is shown solely to illustrate the absolute maximum upper performance bound of this concept, and is at or beyond currently-perceived limits of fusion plasma stability; Case B represents more realistic and conservative examples of hypothetical RIGGATRON fusion power plants as constrained by probable engineering and physics limitations. Case B also utilizes more pessimistic lower temperature cycles than Case A