Particle balance under global wall saturation in long-pulse discharges of JT-60U
- 1. Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Mukoyama 801-1, Naka-shi, Ibaraki-ken 311-0193 (Japan)
Description
During 30s-ELMy H-mode discharges, the wall-pumping rate decreases with a decay constant of several seconds and then becomes constant. During the constant wall-pumping phase, in discharges with a density of 65% of the Greenwald density, the wall-pumping rate is negative, in other words, outgassing. It has been found that this outgassing rate correlates with an increase in the tile temperature around the outer strike point. In discharges with a density of 80% of the Greenwald density, the wall-pumping rate is positive. Unless a high net deposition rate (>60%) of hydrocarbon is assumed, the positive wall-pumping rate cannot be explained only by the co-deposition of deuterium with carbon even if the outgassing rate is assumed to be zero. The vessel deuterium inventory decreases by 1.1 x 1024 on one experimental day with 17 long discharges. The main chamber wall is suggested as the deuterium source for the decrease of the inventory
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2007.01.221;
- PII
- S0022-3115(07)00266-8;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Journal Volume
- 363-365
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1315-1322
- ISSN
- 0022-3115
- CODEN
- JNUMAM
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39009949
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BALANCES; CARBON; DEGASSING; DEPOSITION; DEUTERIUM; EDGE LOCALIZED MODES; H-MODE PLASMA CONFINEMENT; HYDROCARBONS; INVENTORIES; JT-60U TOKAMAK; PARTICLES; PULSES; PUMPING; SATURATION; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR WALLS
- Descriptors DEC
- CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; CONFINEMENT; ELEMENTS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; INSTABILITY; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NONMETALS; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA INSTABILITY; PLASMA MACROINSTABILITIES; STABLE ISOTOPES; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; TOKAMAK DEVICES; WEIGHT INDICATORS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.