Isotopic mass effects of tritium-fueled high-performance TFTR supershots

Budny, R. V.; Fredrickson, E.; Skinner, C. H.

doi:10.1088/1741-4326/adbe8f

Isotopic mass effects of tritium-fueled high-performance TFTR supershots

Journal Article · Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2025 · Nuclear Fusion

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/adbe8f· OSTI ID:2549471

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

An increase in total stored energy correlated with the addition of tritium fuel was observed in supershots during the TFTR DT campaign. This supershot regime had strikingly high, centrally peaked ion and electron temperatures, and the largest neutron emission rates observed in TFTR. This paper presents a study of the causes of this increase in stored energy in supershots. Twenty-six supershots have been recently reanalyzed with the TRANSP plasma analysis code. Early TRANSP simulations did not accurately match the measured magnitude and time evolutions of the neutron emission rates. This mismatch is attributed to neglecting apparent increases of trace amounts of heavy impurities during neutral beam injection. The new TRANSP runs were tuned to accommodate this and match the measured global neutron emission rates. These new runs also had improved fidelity in predicting the time histories and radial dependencies of measured DT neutron emission rates. That in turn adds confidence in the simulated thermal deuterium and tritium density profiles that are needed for calculating the average hydrogenic atomic mass profiles. Six subsets of these supershots had well matched toroidal field B_tor, plasma current I_p, flux geometry, and total injected neutral beam power. The mix of D and T beam ions was varied for different discharges. The magnitude of the increase of the thermal ion energy W_i with added tritium was relatively small, and the total W_tot increase is dominated by the increase in fast beam ions with T. Analyses at times before the occurrences of deleterious MHD instabilities yielded scaling of W_tot with the volume-average isotopic mass consistent with previous publications. The relative fraction of fast energy ions is expected to be small in practical tokamak reactors. Thus the increase in stored energy W_tot observed in TFTR supershots does not appear likely to be significantly helpful for producing useful fusion energy.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-09CH11466

OSTI ID:: 2549471

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2530241
OSTI ID: 2558895

Journal Information:: Nuclear Fusion, Journal Name: Nuclear Fusion Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 65; ISSN 0029-5515

Publisher:: IOP ScienceCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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