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N. A. Uckan, R. T. Santoro
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1326-1331
Alternate Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23040
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This paper summarizes the results of a recent EBT reactor study that includes both ring and core plasma properties and consistent treatment of coupled ring-core stability criteria and power balance requirements. The principal finding is that constraints imposed by these coupling and other physics and technology considerations permit a broad operating window for reactor design optimization. A number of concept improvements are also proposed that are found to offer the potential for further improvement of the reactor size and parameters.