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CD-I - The Role of DEMO in a Fast-Track Development of Fusion Power
I. Cook1, N. Taylor1 and D. Ward1
1Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, UK
Abstract: This paper is concerned with key aspects of issues for DEMO, emerging from European studies of commercial fusion power plant conceptual designs and of accelerated development of the first generation of commercial fusion power plants. The urgent need to find global solutions to the provision of environmentally benign sources of power has led to widespread acceptance of a 'fast track' approach to fusion development. Fast track studies have analysed inter alia the requirements on DEMO(s) that would form the only step between the ITER/IFMIF generation of devices and the first generation of commercial plants. Fusion power plant studies have shown that power plants with very attractive safety and environmental features and viable economics may be achieved on the basis of relatively near-term plasma physics together with components focussed on reduced activation martensitic/ferritic steels as the structural material. Using further technical work developing the above studies, the plasma physics, technology and materials selection issues for DEMO are analysed.
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