Engineering, installation, testing, and initial operation of the DIII-D Advanced Divertor

Conference · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6477370

Andersen, P M; Baxi, C B; Reis, E E; Schaffer, M J; Smith, J P

The Advanced Divertor (AD) for General Atomics tokamak, DIII-D, was installed in the summer of 1990. The AD has enabled two classes of physics experiments to be run: divertor biasing and divertor baffling. Both are new experiments for DIII-D. The AD has two principal components: (1) a continuous ring electrode; and (2) a toroidally symmetric baffle. The tokamak can be run in bias baffle or standard DIII-D divertor modes by accurate positioning of the outer divertor strike point through the use of the DIII-D control system. The paper covers design, analysis, fabrication, installation, instrumentation, testing, initial operation, and future plans for the Advanced Divertor from an engineering viewpoint. 2 refs., 5 figs.

• Research Organization: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-89ER51114
• OSTI ID: 6477370
• Report Number(s): GA-A-20230; CONF-900918-15; ON: DE91002716; TRN: 90-035717
• Resource Relation: Conference: 16. symposium on fusion technology, London (UK), 3-7 Sep 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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