AP9-3-INV

HTS Fusion magnet

Dec.3 17:50-18:20 (Tokyo Time)

*Robert Slade1

Tokamak Energy, 173 Brook Drive, Milton Park, Oxon, OX14 4SD, UK1

Tokamak Energy are developing novel HTS technology targeting demonstration of net fusion energy gain in the world's first compact superconducting spherical tokamak: ST-F1. This talk will review our progress to date, starting with the development of small non-insulated quality assessment (QA) coils is 2018, which were used to characterize HTS tape from multiple suppliers, through demonstration of a 44 mm cold bore all-HTS solenoid which achieved 24 T peak field on coil at 20 K in 2019. The talk will also discuss the challenges and progress towards scaling up this technology for fusion magnets using a novel type of insulation that allows an optimum turn-to-turn resistance to be chosen. A large scale magnet incorporating this insulation method (230 kJ, > 6 T in 180 mm cold bore) has recently been successfully tested and preliminary results will be reported. A mid-size tokamak magnet set (incorporating toroidal and poloidal field coils, with 16 MJ stored energy targeting over 20 T peak field on coil) is currently being manufactured and is due to be tested in 2021.