TY - JOUR
T1 - Global gas balance and influence of atomic hydrogen irradiation on the wall inventory in steady-state operation of QUEST tokamak
AU - Kuzmin, A.
AU - Zushi, H.
AU - Takagi, I.
AU - Sharma, S. K.
AU - Rusinov, A.
AU - Inoue, Y.
AU - Hirooka, Y.
AU - Zhou, H.
AU - Kobayashi, M.
AU - Sakamoto, M.
AU - Hanada, K.
AU - Yoshida, N.
AU - Nakamura, K.
AU - Fujisawa, A.
AU - Matsuoka, K.
AU - Idei, H.
AU - Nagashima, Y.
AU - Hasegawa, M.
AU - Onchi, T.
AU - Banerjee, S.
AU - Mishra, K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/7/22
Y1 - 2015/7/22
N2 - Abstract Hydrogen wall pumping is studied in steady state tokamak operation (SSTO) of QUEST with all metal plasma facing materials PFMs at 100 °C. The duration of SSTO is up to 820 s in fully non-inductive plasma. Global gas balance analysis shows that wall pumping at the apparent (retention-release) rate of 1-6 × 1018 H/s is dominant and 70-80% of injected H2 can be retained in PFMs. However, immediately after plasma termination the H2 release rate enhances to ∼1019 H/s. In order to understand a true retention process the direct measurement of retention flux has been carried out by permeation probes. The comparison between the evaluated wall retention and results from global analysis is discussed.
AB - Abstract Hydrogen wall pumping is studied in steady state tokamak operation (SSTO) of QUEST with all metal plasma facing materials PFMs at 100 °C. The duration of SSTO is up to 820 s in fully non-inductive plasma. Global gas balance analysis shows that wall pumping at the apparent (retention-release) rate of 1-6 × 1018 H/s is dominant and 70-80% of injected H2 can be retained in PFMs. However, immediately after plasma termination the H2 release rate enhances to ∼1019 H/s. In order to understand a true retention process the direct measurement of retention flux has been carried out by permeation probes. The comparison between the evaluated wall retention and results from global analysis is discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.12.092
DO - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.12.092
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84937523760
SN - 0022-3115
VL - 463
SP - 1087
EP - 1090
JO - Journal of Nuclear Materials
JF - Journal of Nuclear Materials
M1 - 48824
ER -