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With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
W. M. Stacey, Jr., K. Evans, Jr.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 32 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 142-154
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31719
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A survey has been made of the toroidal magnetic field strength requirements in a tokamak reactor as a function of size, confinement, temperature, safety factor, aspect ratio, and cross-sectional shape. The maximum field strengths consistent with reasonable limitations on the wall-loading and plasma-driving system and the minimum field strengths necessary for predicted confinement were determined along with the associated power output and an indication of the magnet cost. It was found that a maximum toroidal field at the coil of 80 kG (8 T) may be adequate for large-scale reactors. Fields in excess of 100 kG (10 T) would only be required for reactors in the intermediate-size range (major radius ∼7 m).