Evaluation of cooling concepts and specimen geometries for high heat flux tests on neutron irradiated divertor elements
- Research Center Juelich (Germany); and others
To assess the lifetime and the long term heat removal capabilities of plasma facing components in future thermonuclear fusion reactors such as ITER, neutron irradiation and subsequent high heat flux tests will be most essential. The effect of neutron damage will be simulated in material test reactors (such as the HFR-Petten) in a fission neutron environment. To investigate the heat loads during normal and off-normal operation scenarios a 60 kW electron beam test stand (Juelich Divertor Test Facility in Hot Cells, JUDITH) has been installed in a hot cell which can be operated by remote handling techniques. In this facility inertially cooled test coupons can be handled as well as small actively cooled divertor mock-ups. A special clamping mechanism for small test coupons (25 mm x 25 mm x 35 mm) with an integrated coolant channel within a copper or TZM heat sink has been developed and tested in an electron beam test bed. This method is an attractive alternative to costly large scale tests on complete divertor modules. The temperature and stress fields in individual CFC or beryllium tiles brazed to metallic heat sink (e.g. copper or TZM) can be investigated before and after neutron irradiation with moderate efforts.
- OSTI ID:
- 196975
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940664--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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