Published March 1, 2018 | Version v1
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Design of snowflake-diverted equilibria of CFETR

  • 1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031 (China)

Description

The Chinese Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) represents the next generation of full superconducting fusion reactors in China. Recently, CFETR was redesigned with a larger size and will be operated in two phases. To reduce the heat flux on the target plate, a snowflake (SF) divertor configuration is proposed. In this paper we show that by adding two dedicated poloidal field (PF) coils, the SF configuration can be achieved in both phases. The equilibria were calculated by TEQ code for a range of self-inductances l i3. The coil currents were calculated at some fiducial points in the flattop phase. The results indicate that the PF coil system has the ability to maintain a long flattop phase in 7.5 and 10 MA inductive scenarios for the single null divertor (SND) and SF divertor configurations. The properties of the SF configuration were also analyzed. The connection length and flux expansion of the SF divertor were both increased significantly over the SND. (paper)

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-6272/aa9e83

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Journal Title
Plasma Science and Technology
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
[6 p.]
ISSN
1009-0630