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Material migration and fuel retention studies during the JET carbon divertor campaigns

JET Contributors; Coad, J. P.; Rubel, M.; Likonen, J.; Bekris, N. 1; Brezinsek, S.; Matthews, G. F.; Mayer, M.; Widdowson, A. M.
1 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

The first divertor was installed in the JET machine between 1992 and 1994 and was operated with carbon tiles and then beryllium tiles in 1994–5. Post-mortem studies after these first experiments demonstrated that most of the impurities deposited in the divertor originate in the main chamber, and that asymmetric deposition patterns generally favouring the inner divertor region result from drift in the scrape-off layer. A new monolithic divertor structure was installed in 1996 which produced heavy deposition at shadowed areas in the inner divertor corner, which is where the majority of the tritium was trapped by co-deposition during the deuterium-tritium experiment in 1997. Different divertor geometries have been tested since such as the Gas-Box and High-Delta divertors; a principle objective has been to predict plasma behaviour, transport and tritium retention in ITER. Transport modelling experiments were carried out at the end of four campaigns by puffing 13C-labelled methane, and a range of diagnostics such as quartz-microbalance and rotating collectors have been installed to add time resolution to the post-mortem analyses. The study of material migration after D-D and D-T campaigns clearly revealed important consequences of fuel retention in the presence of carbon walls. ... mehr


Verlagsausgabe §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000088200
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2018.10.002
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Technische Physik (ITEP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2019
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0920-3796, 1873-7196
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-882007
KITopen-ID: 1000088200
Erschienen in Fusion engineering and design
Verlag Elsevier
Band 138
Seiten 78-108
Schlagwörter Fusion, JET, Divertor, Carbon, Plasma-facing components
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