Minh Quang Tran

TL;DR: The European Power Plant Conceptual Study (PPCS) as mentioned in this paper has been a study of conceptual designs of five commercial fusion power plants and the main emphasis was on system integration, focusing on five power plant models which are illustrative of a wider spectrum of possibilities.

TL;DR: The progress of the DEMO Design Activities in Europe and particularly the work done to address critical design integration issues that affect the machine configuration and performance, the plant concept layout and the selection of system design and technologies are described.

TL;DR: The findings of the EU 'Materials Assessment Group' (MAG), within the 2012 EU Fusion Roadmap exercise, are discussed in this paper, where the authors analyse the technical consequences for the materials required and the development, testing and modelling programmes, using: a systems engineering approach, considering reactor operational cycles, efficient maintenance and inspection requirements, and interaction with functional materials/coolants.

TL;DR: In this article, the DEMO design and RD activities in Europe have been described, focusing on a systems engineering and design integration approach, which is recognized to be essential from an early stage to identify and address the engineering and operational challenges, and the requirements for technology and physics RD.

TL;DR: In this paper, a shape control algorithm based on finite element reconstruction of the plasma current in real time was implemented, which achieved a stability margin f=1.15 in the first year of operation of the TCV tokamak.