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S.K. Ho, L.J. Perkins
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 623-628
Design of an Engineering Test Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39767
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The design of future Engineering Test Reactor (ETR) to demonstrate ignition is complicated by the uncertainties in the projected database for ignited plasmas. Application of uncertainty analysis to ETR design utilizing a figure-of-merit defined as the probability of ignition1 is presented. Performance evaluation from the uncertainty analysis in density-temperature space can locate an optimum operating window for ignition.
