Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies the general requirements for performance tests of superconducting magnets for magnetic confinement fusion devices, including structural inspection, insulation performance test, cryogenic performance test, electrical properties performance test, EMC performance test.

Purpose

Magnetic confinement fusion devices can assist to create a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system. Superconducting magnets provide magnetic fields that regulate the plasma in magnetic confinement fusion devices. They are critical components for magnetic confinement fusion devices, as well as the key to obtaining small size and cost efficiency. Furthermore, superconducting magnets provide considerable benefits in nuclear technology applications such as accelerators and MRI. The performance of superconducting magnets is crucial to the safety and stability of magnetic confinement fusion devices. It is critical to clarify the performance test items and evaluation criteria of superconducting magnet for magnetic confinement fusion superconducting devices. Standardization can guarantee that the performance of superconducting magnets satisfy technical standards while also ensuring the safety and stability of magnetic confinement fusion devices. While the current standards cannot fully cover the different kinds of superconducting magnets used in magnetic confinement fusion devices, which is not conducive to the establishment of a magnet performance test system. Developing stable and high-quality superconducting magnets via scientific and standardized performance testing is a crucial technical basis for future fusion production, and it will help to commercialize fusion technology. The project sponsor, the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(ASIPP), has long been committed to the research of fusion devices. ASIPP is one of the most important laboratories on magnetically confined fusion in China, has built HT-6B, HT-6M, HT-7, the first superconducting tokamak in China, and EAST, the world’s first non-circle cross-section full superconducting tokamak. Through the successful delivery of the superconducting magnets and the superconducting feeder products to ITER, GA, ASIPP has accumulated a wealth of R&D experience in superconducting magnet of fusion devices.

In addition, ASIPP has established close and win-win cooperation relationship with more than thirty countries and regions, including EU, USA, RU, Japan and so on. Multiple superconducting magnet performance testing laboratories have also been established, which can ensure standard verification work with participating countries of this project in the later stage.