Towards compact and efficient nuclear reactors

迈向紧凑高效的核反应堆

• 批准号: EP/Y022157/1
• 负责人: Timothy Coombs
• 金额: $ 157.26万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY022157%2F1
• 关键词: Towards; compact; efficient; nuclear; reactors

There is an ever pressing need to develop clean and green methods for energy generation. Fusion is an important part of the solution, in principal at least providing close to unlimited high grade energy with a close to zero carbon footprint. Fusion is at a cross-roads, the physics is well understood but the engineering still needs a great deal of effort to bring about practical fusion. High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have recently emerged as a serious contender for achieving this goal. The purpose of this project is to overcome the major difficulty of AC losses which are a perennial problem with HTS. HTS are only lossless under DC conditions, this will not be the case with a fusion magnet which will be ramped up and down. In a reactor there are coils which need to be ramped rapidly this will induce AC losses. AC losses are a perennial problem for superconductors which needs to be solved. Once it is solved a huge range of applications will become practical, not only fusion but, for example electric flight, even more powerful wind generators and many more. We aim to solve this problem.

开发清洁和绿色能源生产方法的需求日益迫切。聚变是解决方案的重要组成部分，原则上至少提供接近无限的高品位能源，碳足迹接近零。核聚变正处于一个十字路口，物理学已经很好地理解了，但工程学仍然需要大量的努力才能实现实际的核聚变。高温超导体（HTS）最近成为实现这一目标的有力竞争者。本项目的目的是克服交流损耗的主要困难，这是一个长期存在的问题与高温超导体。HTS仅在DC条件下是无损的，这将不是将斜升和斜降的聚变磁体的情况。在电抗器中，存在需要快速斜升的线圈，这将引起AC损耗。交流损耗是超导体长期存在的问题，需要解决。一旦这个问题得到解决，一个巨大的应用范围将成为现实，不仅是核聚变，而且，例如，电力飞行，甚至更强大的风力发电机等等。我们的目标是解决这个问题。