M. Bacal M. Sasao M. Wada R. McAdams
The plasma grid is electrically biased with respect to other parts of source chamber wall in both volume sources and sources seeded with alkali metals. The roles of the plasma grid in these two kinds of sources will be described. The main functions of the plasma grid in volume sources are: optimizing the extracted negative ion current, reducing the…
PublishedM. Sasao L. Bertalot M. Ishikawa S. Popovichev
Accuracy of 10% is demanded to the absolute fusion measurement on ITER. To achieve this accuracy, a functional combination of several types of neutron measurement subsystem, cross calibration among them, and in situ calibration are needed. Neutron transport calculation shows the suitable calibration source is a DT/DD neutron generator of source str…
PublishedAnatoly V. Krasilnikov Mamiko Sasao Yuri A. Kaschuck Vasily G.Kiptily Takeo Nishitani Sergey V.Popovichev Luciano Bertalot
Due to high neutron and gamma-ray yields and large size plasmas many future fusion reactor plasma parameters such as fusion power, fusion power density, ion temperature, fuel mixture, fast ion energy and spatial distributions can be well measured by various fusion product diagnostics. Neutron diagnostics provide information on fusion reaction rate,…
PublishedM. Sasao T. Nishitani A. Krasilnilov S. Popovichev V. Kiptily J. Kallne
Fusion product diagnostics can be used to determine afusion reaction rate,whichindicateshowclose theplasma is to the ultimate goal of making a power plant based on nuclear fusion. However, these diagnostics can also provide large amounts of additional information, such as ion temperatures, the thermonuclear fraction in the fusion reaction rate, deg…
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