Experimental Research of a 10 kA HTS Current Lead Using YBCO Tapes

A 10 kA high-temperature superconductor current lead (HTS-CL) using a double-tube stainless steel (SS) shunt has been designed, fabricated, and tested at Institute of plasma physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). The current lead consists of 80 parallel the second generation HTS coated conductor with critical current of 220 A at 77 K in self-field, a double-tube SS shunt, and Cu connectors....