Recent Progress in Stellarator Reactor Conceptual Design

Recent progress in the ARIES compact stellarator study

An integrated study of compact stellarator power plants, ARIES-CS, was initiated recently to explore attractive compact tellarator configurations and to define key R&D areas. Optimization of any stellarator configuration represents a large number f trade-offs among physics parameters and engineering constraints. As such, the ARIES-CS study was divided into three phases. he first phase was devot...

Recent Progress in Allergen Immunotherapy

The efficacy of allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis with or without seasonal bronchial asthma and anaphylaxis caused by the sting of the hymenoptera class of insects has been clearly demonstrated in numerous well-designed, placebo-controlled trials. Immunotherapy whether by subcutaneous injection of allergen extract or by oral/sublingual routes modifies peri...

Optimization of Stellarator Reactor Parameters

Four quasi-axisymmetric compact stellarator plasma and coil configurations are analyzed for their potential as reactors. A 0-D (volume-average) approach for optimizing the main reactor parameters allows study of the relationship between global parameters and the compatibility of different constraints for a given power output including plasma-coil spacing, coil-coil spacing, maximum field and co...

UWFDM-1242 Optimization of Stellarator Reactor Parameters

lmplications of Recent Tokamak Research for Stellarator Design

Recent advances in tokamak physics can be used in the quest to optimize the stellarator concept. In particular the experimental confirmation of strong bootstrap currents suggests the possibility of taking advantage of non-zero current in steady-state stellarators. In addition the observation of neoclassical islands suggests important issues for design optimization, in order to operate in a regi...