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.