Physics Goals for ARIES-AT
ARIES-RS (1996) has received a lot of attention
- provides the U.S. vision of a tokamak power plant
- being compared against ARIES-ST, Stellarators, fission, etc
- stimulated the tokamak community to explore reversed shear
- motivated new prototype experiments ( TPX, KSTAR)
It was felt that the ARIES-RS physics analysis lacked the depth it should have received for such an important study
- ~ 1 year design during time of program change
We were asked to revisit ARIES-RS to perform a more aggressive and more complete design – ARIES-AT
- More aggressive:
- use experience gained in ARIES-ST to optimize further
- More complete:
- bring in transport analysis, better edge analysis