Steps Toward a Compact Stellarator Reactor Hutch Neilson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ARIES Team Meeting October 3, 2002.

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Steps Toward a Compact Stellarator Reactor Hutch Neilson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ARIES Team Meeting October 3, 2002

2 Compact Stellarators Can Improve Our Vision of Magnetic Fusion Power Plants Stellarators solve major problems for MFE: Steady state operation with minimal recirculating power. Eliminating disruptions. Compact stellarators can improve on previous stellarator designs: Lower aspect ratio. Higher power density. Lower physics risk, shorter development path. –Connection to the tokamak data base via magnetic quasi-symmetry. The U.S. is carrying out a proof-of-principle program to further develop the compact stellarator. FESAC-approved 10-year goal: “Determine the attractiveness of a compact stellarator by assessing resistance to disruption at high beta without instability feedback control or significant current drive, assessing confinement at high temperature, and investigating 3D divertor operation.” ARIES role is critical: optimizing the compact stellarator as a power plant.

3 Don’t need current drive, rotation drive, or instability feedback control to be steady state. 3D plasma shaping provides extra degrees of freedom (opportunity!) which can be used to design for better properties. Stellarators Have Interesting Reactor Properties Wendelstein 7-X (Germany) Compact stellarator properties: low aspect aspect ratio and high beta passively stable to troubling instabilities  no disruptions, even with current. good magnetic surfaces. magnetic quasi-symmetry  tokamak-like confinement benefits (good particle orbits, low flow damping, can use bootstrap current to generate transform). Advances in physics, optimization methods, and computer performance make it possible to take advantage of the opportunity. Stellarators are 3D toroidal configurations which can have up to 100% of the rotational transform generated by external coils.

4 Recent Stellarator Physics Developments Are Promising Large Helical Device (Japan)  > 3%. T e ≈ 10 kev, T i ≈ 5 keV. enhanced confinement. 2-minute pulses. Wendelstein 7-AS (Germany)  > 3%. enhanced confinement. density control & enhanced performance w/island divertor. Helically Symmetric Experiment (U. Wisc.) Successful test of quasi-symmetry.

5 NCSX and QPS designs optimized as experiments with R/  a  4%. Reviews have been successful NCSX and QPS Physics Validation Reviews confirmed compact stellarator physics approach (2001). NCSX Conceptual Design Review demonstrated a feasible design. (2002). QPS conceptual design in progress; CDR next Spring. Designs were developed by national stellarator team using common tools. Starting point for next design task: Optimizing compact stellarators as reactors. U.S. Compact Stellarator Design Efforts (NCSX and QPS) Have Been Successful

6 Compact Stellarator Experiment Designs NCSX (PPPL-ORNL) PoP test of high- , quasi- axisymmetric stellarator. Fab. project starts in FY-03 QPS (ORNL) CE test of quasi-poloidal symmetry at R/a = 2.7 CDR planned April 03

7 NCSX Magnets Optimized for Experimental Flexibility Include Modular, TF, PF, and Trim Coils What is needed for a reactor?

8 Compact Stellarator Reactor Vision A steady-state toroidal reactor with –No disruptions –No conducting structures or active feedback control of instabilities –No current drive (  minimal recirculating power) –High power density (~3 MW/m 2 ) Likely configuration features Rotational transform from a combination of bootstrap and externally- generated sources. (how much of each?) 3D plasma shaping to stabilize limiting instabilities. (how strong?) Quasi-symmetric to reduce helical ripple transport, alpha losses, flow damping. (how low must ripple be?) Power and particle exhaust via a divertor. (what magnetic topology?) R/  a  ≤4.4 (how low?) and  ≥4% (how high?) Optimum design involves tradeoffs among features. Need to develop the physics and understand reactor implications to determine optimum power plant design, assess attractiveness.

9 Program Plan to Assess Compact Stellarators: Physics Stellarator Theory and Experiments (HSX, CTH, LHD, other non-U.S.) Fundamental understanding. Validated physics models. Benchmarked tools for physics analysis and design. New Compact Stellarator Experiments (NCSX, QPS) Test compact stellarator physics models and design drivers. –What sets the beta limits? –How low can the aspect ratio be? –How low must the ripple be? –What is the best enhanced confinement strategy? –What does the divertor look like? Determine the conditions for high-beta, disruption-free operation.

10 Program Plan to Assess Compact Stellarators: ARIES Reactor Studies Optimize a compact stellarator reactor configuration. Optimization objectives will differ from those used in experiment design. Possible examples: –More emphasis on alpha confinement, blanket & shield space. –Less emphasis on minimizing ripple (sufficient to confine alphas). –Less emphasis on flexibility (sufficient to have a start-up path) –Less reliance on coils for island reduction (take more credit for physics effects) –Engineering criteria appropriate for reactors (guidance from ARIES experts and NCSX/QPS engineers.) Configuration alternatives need to be explored –Plasma configurations: # of periods, beta, aspect ratio, shaping. –Coil configurations: alternatives to modular coils. Identify high-leverage issues for further physics research: What are the cost sensitivities? Develop an attractive design around the optimum configuration.

11 Stellarator Configurations Can Be Made with Surprisingly Simple Coils Concept for CNT Experiment (Columbia Univ.) – proposed by W. Reiersen, PPPL iota profile magnetic surfaces

12 Path to Compact Stellarator Assessment Note: reactor study must be re-visited in light of data from C.S. experiments

13 With a Well-Integrated Program, a Stellarator DEMO Could Be the Next Step After a Tokamak BPX. By 2025, there will be a substantial knowledge base on stellarator physics and long-pulse integration from 2-3 PE-class stellarators (LHD, W7-X, and a possible “CS-PE”). The BPX will produce a knowledge base on toroidal physics in the regime of alpha-dominated, large-size plasmas. –Compact stellarators have a physics link to tokamaks (via quasi-symmetry) that can facilitate knowledge transfer from tokamaks to stellarators. –Compact stellarators can use the tokamak data base. Reduced development time. Predictive capability for toroidal systems will be improved by virtue of expanded data base from large machines, theory advances, exploitation of advanced computation, and commitment to cross-portfolio integration. The BPX can provide a knowledge base on the operation of fusion- relevant technologies in a burning-plasma environment, readily applicable to stellarators.

14 Snowmass MFE Development Path

15 Summary Stellarators solve important problems for MFE. Compact stellarators offer further improvements, but the optimum reactor configuration needs to be developed before its potential can be adequately evaluated. –Physics models and tools. –Reactor criteria. –Design tradeoffs and optimization. ARIES role is critical in understanding the reactor implications and identifying issues for R&D. –Developing a reactor-optimized compact stellarator configuration is the first step.