Superconducting Magnet Design for Compact Fusion Devices: A Review of Stress and Quench Margins

Authors

  • Anargyros Christakopoulos Centre for Fusion Materials, Samothrace Centre for Anticipatory Research, Samothraki, Greece Author
  • Engelbert-P Ellmauer Centre for Fusion Materials, Rax Institute for Future Science, Reichenau, Austria Author
  • Emilia-K Frydrych Department of Cryogenics, Bory Tucholskie Institute for Future Science, Tuchola, Poland Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22674756

Keywords:

Superconducting Magnet Design for Compact Fusion Devices; Future science and technology; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Superconducting Magnet Design for Compact Fusion Devices has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a
wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for superconducting magnet design for compact fusion devices, covering the methodological,
practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers
are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered
here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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