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Journal article

Tungsten transport and sources control in JET ITER-like wall H-mode plasmas

  • 1. CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance (France)
  • 2. MPI für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association, Boltzmannstrasse 2, 85748 Garching (Germany)
  • 3. Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jlich, Assoc EURATOM-FZJ, Jlich (Germany)
  • 4. Euratom/CCFE Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon OX14 3DB (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Association EURATOM-Belgian State, LPP-ERM-KMS, TEC partner, Brussels (Belgium)
  • 6. York Plasma Institute, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD (United Kingdom)
  • 7. Laboratorio Nacional de Fusin, Asociacin EURATOM/CIEMAT, 28040 Madrid (Spain)
  • 8. Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, EURATOM-CCFE Association, Abingdon (United Kingdom)
  • 9. Istituto de plasmas e fusao nuclear, Lisboa (Portugal)
  • 10. Association EURATOM-Hellenic Republic, NCSR Demokritos 153 10, Attica (Greece)
  • 11. ITER Organization, Route de Vinon sur Verdon, 13115 Saint Paul Lez Durance (France)

Description

A set of discharges performed with the JET ITER-like wall is investigated with respect to control capabilities on tungsten sources and transport. In attached divertor regimes, increasing fueling by gas puff results in higher divertor recycling ion flux, lower divertor tungsten source, higher ELM frequency and lower core plasma radiation, dominated by tungsten ions. Both pedestal flushing by ELMs and divertor screening (including redeposition) are possibly responsible. For specific scenarios, kicks in plasma vertical position can be employed to increase the ELM frequency, which results in slightly lower core radiation. The application of ion cyclotron radio frequency heating at the very center of the plasma is efficient to increase the core electron temperature gradient and flatten electron density profile, resulting in a significantly lower central tungsten peaking. Beryllium evaporation in the main chamber did not reduce the local divertor tungsten source whereas core radiation was reduced by approximately 50%

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.12.044

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.12.044;
PII
S0022-3115(14)00986-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Journal Volume
463
Journal Page Range
p. 85-90
ISSN
0022-3115
CODEN
JNUMAM

Conference

Title
21. international conference on plasma-surface interactions in controlled fusion devices
Acronym
Plasma-Surface Interactions 21
Dates
26-30 May 2014
Place
Kanazawa (Japan)

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