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PPPL study points to better fusion plasma control
The combination of two previously known methods for managing plasma conditions can result in enhanced control of plasma in a fusion reactor, according to a simulation performed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
In Sun Park, In Je Kang, Kyu-Sun Chung
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 6 | August 2021 | Pages 429-436
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1929759
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Although plasma-facing components composed of tungsten are less likely to generate dust when compared to other materials, dust generation is still possible during severe transient phenomena in fusion devices. The generation of tungsten dusts was experimentally investigated by exposing tungsten targets to a transient heat flux factor (FHF) simulated by a high-energy pulsed laser so that the rate of dust generation would be analyzed. The rate of dust generation is observed to be increased linearly with respect to FHF: G [mg/min] = C (FEX – F0), where FEX is the experimental value of FHF, F0 is the threshold FHF, and C [mg∙m2∙s1/2/min∙MJ] = 0.0031 ± 0.0002. FHF indicates that the characteristics of dusts such as size and FHF are similar to those observed in several toroidal fusion devices. The threshold of FHF for dust generation was also observed as 41 MJ/m2∙ s1/2, which is similar to that of the international thermonuclear experimental reactor ITER (50 MJ/m2∙ s1/2).