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Playing the “bad guy” to enhance next-generation safety
Sometimes, cops and robbers is more than just a kid’s game. At the Department of Energy’s national laboratories, researchers are channeling their inner saboteurs to discover vulnerabilities in next-generation nuclear reactors, making sure that they’re as safe as possible before they’re even constructed.
Zhenggui Xiao, Bo Li, Li Li, Dequan Liu, Lianghua Yao, Jiafu Dong, Gancheng Guo, Zhongchao Deng, Yin Jia Zheng, Wenyu Hong, Longwen Yan, Yi Liu, Yong Liu, Enyao Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 45-54
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A248
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The Eight-shot Pellet Injector (EPI) and Molecular Beam Injector (MBI) as new plasma fueling methods have been developed and installed on the HL-1M tokamak for fueling experiments. The main structures and characteristics of the fueling device and the typical fueling experimental results with EPI and the MBI are reported. In these experiments, typical responses of plasma in discharges with PI and MBI are the peaked density profile Qn = ne(0)/<(ne)> of >1.65 for MBI and of 2 for PI. The improvement of confinement time E is usually better than 10 to 30% of Gas Puffing (GP) discharge in the same operation condition. In addition, the penetration depth and deposition region of fueling particles, the variance of soft X-ray sawteeth, the rotation and flow of plasma in edge region as well as the photographing of ablation clouds with PI and MBI are compared and presented in this paper.