Ex-vessel remote maintenance for the Compact Ignition Tokamak
The use of deuterium-tritium (D-T) fuel for operation of the Compact Ignition Tokamak (CIT) requires the use of remote handling technology to carry out maintenance operations on the machine. These operations consist in removing and repairing such components as diagnostic modules by using remotely operated maintenance equipment. The major equipment being developed for maintenance external to the plasma chamber includes a bridge-mounted manipulator system for test cell operations, decontamination (decon) equipment, hot cell equipment, and solid-radiation-waste-handling equipment. Wherever possible, the project will use commercially available equipment. Several areas of the maintenance system design were addressed in fiscal year (FY) 1987, including conceptual designs of manipulator systems, the start of a remote equipment research and development (RandD) program, and definition of the hot cell, decon, and equipment repair facility requirements. R and D work included preliminary demonstrations of remote handling operations on full-size, partial mock-ups of the CIT machine at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Remote Operations and Maintenance Development (ROMD) Facility. 1 ref., 6 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 6729106
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8711195-3; ON: DE89001938
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Nuclear Society winter meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 15 Nov 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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COMPACT IGNITION TOKAMAK
MAINTENANCE
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MANIPULATORS
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CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
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LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
SIMULATION
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
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TOKAMAK DEVICES
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