Abstract:
The baseline conceptual study of Indian Fusion Power Plant (IFPP) is being focused on to
achieve the electric power without any aggressive physics and engineering assumptions.
As the research and development progresses, it will be possible to improve the baseline
design for achieving power plant with greater efficiency. A system design code with
considerations from engineering and physics issues has been developed and used to
design the IFPP with normal/advanced tokamak configurations. Equilibrium and stability
of these configurations has been analyzed. The requirement of heating and current drive
systems to provide steady state operation has been computed. The requirement in fusion
technology development for making the design economically more attractive has been
identified.