Advances in boronization on NSTX-Upgrade
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Princeton University, NJ (United States)
Boronization has been effective in reducing plasma impurities and enabling access to higher density, higher confinement plasmas in many magnetic fusion devices. The National Spherical Torus eXperiment, NSTX, has recently undergone a major upgrade to NSTX-U in order to develop the physics basis for a ST-based Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) with capability for double the toroidal field, plasma current, and NBI heating power and increased pulse duration from 1–1.5 s to 5–8 s. A new deuterated tri-methyl boron conditioning system was implemented together with a novel surface analysis diagnostic. We report on the spatial distribution of the boron deposition versus discharge pressure, gas injection and electrode location. The oxygen concentration of the plasma facing surface was measured by in-vacuo XPS and increased both with plasma exposure and with exposure to trace residual gases. Furthermore, this increase correlated with the rise of oxygen emission from the plasma.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466; AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1349239
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1888628
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-840086; PII: S2352179116301028; TRN: US1800092
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Materials and Energy, Vol. 12, Issue C; Related Information: The digital data for this paper can be found in http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp018s45qc26p.; ISSN 2352-1791
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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