High-temperature superconducting-slotted cables, including the VIPER cable, are being investigated as possible candidates for winding the toroidal field coils of compact nuclear fusion machines, such as ARC. The higher performance of HTS materials in terms of magnetic fields and currents allows them to reduce their size compared to machines based on Nb alloys and compounds. However, compactness also means a closer interaction between the plasma products and the coils, creating new technological challenges to be faced. Among the others, the thermal effects induced on the superconducting materials by direct particles (i.e., neutrons), secondary particles and gamma-ray heating, will be stronger than for low-field larger machines and must be quantified. In this paper, a detailed thermo-magnetic model is built up using the software COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the consequences of the D-T plasma operation products on the first turn of a toroidal field coil of the ARC preliminary machine design. The irradiation-induced heat load on the (RE)Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ tapes, computed via Monte Carlo simulations, is used as input for the thermal analysis of the VIPER cable. At the same time, a homogenized T-A formulation is developed for checking the performance reduction in the current/field operating conditions.

Analysis framework for nuclear heating effects on HTS-based conductors in fusion power plants / Sparacio, Simone; Viarengo, Sofia; Ledda, Federico; Torsello, Daniele; Riva, Nicolo; Hartwig, Zachary; Savoldi, Laura; Laviano, Francesco. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. - ISSN 1558-2515. - 34:3(2024). [10.1109/TASC.2024.3376490]

Analysis framework for nuclear heating effects on HTS-based conductors in fusion power plants

Sparacio, Simone;Viarengo, Sofia;Ledda, Federico;Torsello, Daniele;Savoldi, Laura;Laviano, Francesco
2024

Abstract

High-temperature superconducting-slotted cables, including the VIPER cable, are being investigated as possible candidates for winding the toroidal field coils of compact nuclear fusion machines, such as ARC. The higher performance of HTS materials in terms of magnetic fields and currents allows them to reduce their size compared to machines based on Nb alloys and compounds. However, compactness also means a closer interaction between the plasma products and the coils, creating new technological challenges to be faced. Among the others, the thermal effects induced on the superconducting materials by direct particles (i.e., neutrons), secondary particles and gamma-ray heating, will be stronger than for low-field larger machines and must be quantified. In this paper, a detailed thermo-magnetic model is built up using the software COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the consequences of the D-T plasma operation products on the first turn of a toroidal field coil of the ARC preliminary machine design. The irradiation-induced heat load on the (RE)Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ tapes, computed via Monte Carlo simulations, is used as input for the thermal analysis of the VIPER cable. At the same time, a homogenized T-A formulation is developed for checking the performance reduction in the current/field operating conditions.
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