Novel Approaches and Challenges in Nuclear Fusion Engineering, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers the Sun and the stars, is expected to provide a safe, non-polluting, and virtually limitless energy resource. In the future, it is foreseen that nuclear fusion power plants could spread all over the world and dominate energy production, reducing the contribution to electricity of fossil fuels and other polluting resources. Achieving this requires solving many challenging problems across a wide range of engineering fields, including the discovery of novel solutions and the development of new technologies. This Special Issue will showcase scientific and technical manuscripts addressing technical and theoretical aspects of the most important issues that need to be overcome in order to design and safely operate a nuclear fusion power plant. The key aim of this Special Issue is to describe the current state of the art, emerging technologies, and new technical solutions under investigation in nuclear fusion engineering, including (but not limited to) the following key topics:

• Balance of plant in a nuclear fusion facility;
• High-current and high-voltage power supplies;
• Electrical distribution systems for pulsed loads;
• High-performance (electric, magnetic, and thermal) energy storage systems;
• Solutions and layouts for cooling and heat transport;
• Power conversion, power generation, and connection to the external grid;
• The thermomechanical design of structural elements and plasma-facing components;
• Advances in applied superconductivity;
• Heating and current drive technologies;
• Nuclear and real-time diagnostics;
• Plasma scenarios and equilibrium design, optimization, and control;
• Solutions for power exhaust management;
• Technologies for tritium extraction and the fuel cycle;
• Safety and reliability issues in nuclear fusion;
• The design and management of experimental facilities.

Dr. Simone Minucci
Dr. Alessandro Lampasi
Guest Editors

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