Power Plant Design, Technology and Economy

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Power Plant Design, Technology and Economy

• Power plant designs
• Options for Demo
• Starlite
• NIF and Inertial Fusion Energy Demo
• Material and component test facilities
• IFMTF
• Component test facility
• ST volumetric neutron source
• Fusion power plant economy
• ITER cost breakdown

• Assessment of Options for Attractive Commercial
  and Demonstration Tokamak Fusion Power Plant,
  Farrokh Najmabadi for the ARIES team, Fusion
  Technology 30, 1286(1996)
• Fusion Power Plant Economy,
• Ronald L. Miller for the ARIES team, Fusion
  Technology 30, 1599(1996)
• Key Issues for the Economic Viability of
  Magnetic Fusion Power,
• T.C. Hender. P.J. Knight, and I Cook, Fusion
  Technology 30, 1605(1996)

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Cost of Electricity(COE)
COE Formula from standard accounting procedure
Parameters determining COE
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Parameters Determining the Cost of Electricity
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Cost of Electricity (COE)
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Cost Scaling of Structural Materials
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Cost Scaling
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COE for Different Wall Life
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COE for Tokamak Physics and Technology

• Present Physics and Technology

• Conservative assumptions adopted for ITER
• Optimal neutron wall loading 1.5 MW/m2

• Neutron fluence limit 6MWa/m2
• Present material OK

• Nominal Physics and Technology

• Higher elongation than ITER from 1.6 to 1.8
• Optimal neutron wall loading 2-2.5 MW/m2
• Neutron fluence limit 15MWa/m2
• Equivalent loading assumed in SEAFP

• Advanced Physics and Technology

• Neutron fluence limit 20MWa/m2
• Further material development required
• Optimal neutron wall loading 2.5-4.0 MW/m2
• Theoretically or transiently or not
  simultaneously achieved

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Parameters for Different Tokamaks as Power Plants
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Comparison of COE for Different Tokamaks
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Comparison of COE for Different Power Sources
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Standard Cost Accounts I of NUWMAK
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Standard Cost Accounts II of NUWMAK
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Reactor Plant Equipments
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TF Magnet
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Determination of Power Plant Unit Size
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Breakdown of ITER Direct Capital Cost
ITER Construction Cost Direct Capital Cost
(3,012 kIUA), Personnel (477 kIUA), RD (70
kIUA), 1 kIUA 1 M US Dollar in January 1989
1.44 M US in 2003
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Possible sharing between Parties -1
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ARIES-AT Design (1000MWe)