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Preparations for deuterium-tritium experiments on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
- Author(s): Hawryluk, RJ
- Adler, H
- Alling, P
- Ancher, C
- Anderson, H
- Anderson, JL
- Anderson, JW
- Arunasalam, V
- Ascione, G
- Aschroft, D
- Barnes, CW
- Barnes, G
- Batchelor, DB
- Bateman, G
- Batha, S
- Baylor, LA
- Beer, M
- Bell, MG
- Biglow, TS
- Bitter, M
- Blanchard, W
- Bonoli, P
- Bretz, NL
- Brunkhorst, C
- Budny, R
- Burgess, T
- Bush, H
- Bush, CE
- Camp, R
- Caorlin, M
- Carnevale, H
- Chang, Z
- Chen, L
- Cheng, CZ
- Chrzanowski, J
- Collazo, I
- Collins, J
- Coward, G
- Cowley, S
- Cropper, M
- Darrow, DS
- Daugert, R
- DeLooper, J
- Duong, H
- Dudek, L
- Durst, R
- Efthimion, PC
- Ernst, D
- Faunce, J
- Fonck, RJ
- Fredd, E
- Fredrickson, E
- Fromm, N
- Fu, GY
- Furth, HP
- Garzotto, V
- Gentile, C
- Gettelfinger, G
- Gilbert, J
- Gioia, J
- Goldfinger, RC
- Golian, T
- Gorelenkov, N
- Gouge, MJ
- Grek, B
- Grisham, LR
- Hammett, G
- Hanson, GR
- Heidbrink, W
- Hermann, HW
- Hill, KW
- Hirshman, S
- Hoffman, DJ
- Hosea, J
- Hulse, RA
- Hsuan, H
- Jaeger, EF
- Janos, A
- Jassby, DL
- Jobes, FC
- Johnson, DW
- Johnson, LC
- Kamperschroer, J
- Kesner, J
- Kugel, H
- Kwon, S
- Labik, G
- Lam, NT
- LaMarche, PH
- Laughlin, MJ
- Lawson, E
- LeBlanc, B
- Leonard, M
- Levine, J
- Levinton, FM
- Loesser, D
- Long, D
- Machuzak, J
- Mansfield, DE
- Marchlik, M
- et al.
Abstract
The final hardware modifications for tritium operation have been completed for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [Fusion Technol. 21, 1324 (1992)]. These activities include preparation of the tritium gas handling system, installation of additional neutron shielding, conversion of the toroidal field coil cooling system from water to a Fluorinert™ system, modification of the vacuum system to handle tritium, preparation, and testing of the neutral beam system for tritium operation and a final deuterium-deuterium (D-D) run to simulate expected deuterium-tritium (D-T) operation. Testing of the tritium system with low concentration tritium has successfully begun. Simulation of trace and high power D-T experiments using D-D have been performed. The physics objectives of D-T operation are production of ≈ 10 MW of fusion power, evaluation of confinement, and heating in deuteriumtritium plasmas, evaluation of α-particle heating of electrons, and collective effects driven by alpha particles and testing of diagnostics for confined a particles. Experimental results and theoretical modeling in support of the D-T experiments are reviewed. © 1994 American Institute of Physics.
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