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Energy Analysis for the Connection of the Nuclear Reactor DEMO to the European Electrical Grid

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  • Sergio Ciattaglia

    (EUROfusion Consortium, 85748 Garching, Germany)

  • Maria Carmen Falvo

    (DIAEE—Department of Astronautics, Energy and Electrical Engineering, University of Rome Sapienza, 00184 Rome, Italy)

  • Alessandro Lampasi

    (ENEA Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy)

  • Matteo Proietti Cosimi

    (DIAEE—Department of Astronautics, Energy and Electrical Engineering, University of Rome Sapienza, 00184 Rome, Italy)

Abstract

Towards the middle of the current century, the DEMOnstration power plant, DEMO, will start operating as the first nuclear fusion reactor capable of supplying its own loads and of providing electrical power to the European electrical grid. The presence of such a unique and peculiar facility in the European transmission system involves many issues that have to be faced in the project phase. This work represents the first study linking the operation of the nuclear fusion power plant DEMO to the actual requirements for its correct functioning as a facility connected to the power systems. In order to build this link, the present work reports the analysis of the requirements that this unconventional power-generating facility should fulfill for the proper connection and operation in the European electrical grid. Through this analysis, the study reaches its main objectives, which are the definition of the limitations of the current design choices in terms of power-generating capability and the preliminary evaluation of advantages and disadvantages that the possible configurations for the connection of the facility to the European electrical grid can have. In reference to the second objective, the work makes possible a first attempt at defining the features of the point of connection to the European grid, whose knowledge will be useful in the future, for the choice of the real construction site.

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  • Sergio Ciattaglia & Maria Carmen Falvo & Alessandro Lampasi & Matteo Proietti Cosimi, 2020. "Energy Analysis for the Connection of the Nuclear Reactor DEMO to the European Electrical Grid," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-19, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2020:i:9:p:2157-:d:352845
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    2. Andrea Murari & Riccardo Rossi & Teddy Craciunescu & Jesús Vega & Michela Gelfusa, 2024. "A control oriented strategy of disruption prediction to avoid the configuration collapse of tokamak reactors," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-19, December.

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