Development of high Cu ratio Nb/sub 3/Al and Nb/sub 3/Sn CICCs for superconducting toroidal field coils of JT-60

摘要

Two types of cable-in-conduit conductors (CICCs) for the JT-60 toroidal field coil (TFC) have been developed. The operational conditions of this conductor are 7.4 T in a maximum magnetic field and 19.4 kA in operational current. Each conductor consists of a stainless steel conduit (17 mm in inner diameter) containing 216 high performance superconducting strand (Nb/sub 3/Al or Nb/sub 3/Sn) and 108 copper wires. The diameter of strand is 0.74 mm including 2-/spl mu/m Cr plating. In order to attain a compact and stable coil, strands with high Cuon-Cu ratio and high critical current density (Jc) were developed. The Cuon-Cu ratio of Nb/sub 3/Al and Nb/sub 3/Sn strands are 4.1 and 3.6, respectively. The noncopper J/sub c/ of developed Nb/sub 3/Al and Nb/sub 3/Sn strands were 1914 A/mm/sup 2/ and 1843 A/mm/sup 2/ at 7.4 T, 4.2 K, respectively. Measurements of critical current (I/sub c/) of full size conductors showed that the I/sub c/ of Nb/sub 3/Al and Nb/sub 3/Sn CICCs were 98% and 79% of I/sub c/ estimated from I/sub c/ in strands. These values exceed the target values indicating that the developed conductors are quite appropriate for TFC of JT-60.