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U.K. vision for fusion
The U.K. government has announced a series of initiatives to progress fusion to commercialization, laid out in a fusion strategy policy paper published March 16. A New Energy Revolution: The UK’s Plan for Delivering Fusion Energy begins to describe how the government’s £2.5 billion (about $3.4 billion) investment in fusion research and development over five years will be allocated.
T. Kobayashi et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 160-163
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16895
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A dual frequency (110 GHz and 138 GHz) ECRF system development began for JT-60SA. A gyrotron output power and efficiency higher than 1 MW and 30% with a peak heat load at cavity lower than 1.4 kW/cm2 were obtained for both frequencies in calculation. Mode conversion efficiency of the quasi-optical mode converter sufficiently high for long pulse operation at 1 MW (96.8% for 110GHz and 98.3% for 138GHz) was also obtained in calculation. In the first conditioning operation of the newly fabricated gyrotron, an output power of 1.1 MW was obtained for 100 ms with an efficiency of 32% at 110 GHz.