Abstract
China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR), the next fusion device in China, is proposed to bridge the gaps between ITER and the demonstration reactor (DEMO). The Water Cooled Ceramic Breeder (WCCB) blanket, one candidate option of breeding blanket conception for CFETR, impacts the toroidal field (TF) ripple in CFETR, as the reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steel was used as its structure material. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the ripple effect of WCCB blanket on TF ripple in CFETR. An analysis is performed using three-dimensional finite element model with 16 TF coils and WCCB blanket modules. ANSYS code is employed for this study. The results indicated that the TF ripple was less than 0.5% at all points in target separatrix when it was estimated with TF coils only. We also calculated TF ripple in case of WCCB blanket modules and various port configuration schemes. It is found that TF ripple cannot meet the design requirements by the presence of WCCB blanket modules, even in difference port configuration. Discussions are made on the implication of the WCCB blanket modules and ports on TF ripple. Potential methods for reducing the TF ripple are studied in this paper.
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