Operations with tritium neutral beams on the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
- Princeton Univ. Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States)
In November of 1993 the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor began operating with a deuterium-tritium fuel mixture instead of the pure deuterium which it had used heretofore. The major portion of this tritium has been supplied as energetic neutral particles injected by the neutral beams. After an initial run in which some ion sources used a mixture of 2% T and 98% D to test tokamak systems, full tritium beam operations commenced, with some of the ion sources run on pure tritium and some on deuterium to optimize the fuel mixture in the core plasma. Hundreds of tritium source shots have now occurred, with reliability which is better than that typical of deuterium operation. The maximum beam power injected is 33.7 MW. D-T fusion power of 9 MW has been produced. Energy confinement in D-T plasmas of the {open_quotes}Supershot{close_quotes} variety appears to be better than in similar deuterium plasmas.
- OSTI ID:
- 199632
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941129-; TRN: 95:005652-0124
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry, Denton, TX (United States), 7-10 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Thirteenth international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry; Duggan, J.L.; Morgan, I.L. [eds.]; PB: 201 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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