New Mechanism for Enhancing Ash Removal Efficiency and Reducing Tritium Inventory
LI Cheng-Yue1, DENG Bai-Quan2, YAN Jian-Cheng2
1School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054
2Southwestern Institute of Physics, PO Box 432, Chengdu 610041
New Mechanism for Enhancing Ash Removal Efficiency and Reducing Tritium Inventory
LI Cheng-Yue1;DENG Bai-Quan2;YAN Jian-Cheng2
1School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054
2Southwestern Institute of Physics, PO Box 432, Chengdu 610041
Abstract： A new mechanism is suggested to suppress ash particle back streams in the divertor region of our fusion experimental breeder (FEB) reactor for enhancing the ash removal efficiency and reducing the tritium inventory by applications of the nonlinear effect of high power rf ponderomotive force potential which reflects the plate-released and re-ionized He+ back to the plate. Meanwhile, the potential does not hinder α particles, which are coming from scraping of the layer, flowing to the target plate. However, it does stop tritium ions flowing to the target. Based on the FEB design parameters, our calculations have shown that the ash removal efficiency can be improved by as much as 40% if the parallel component of rf field 150--200V/cm is applied to the location at a perpendicular distance L=20cm apart from the plate and the plate-recycling neutral helium atom energy is about 0.75eV, at the same time, the tritium inventory can be reduced to some extent.
LI Cheng-Yue;DENG Bai-Quan;YAN Jian-Cheng. New Mechanism for Enhancing Ash Removal Efficiency and Reducing Tritium Inventory[J]. 中国物理快报, 2007, 24(1): 155-157.
LI Cheng-Yue, DENG Bai-Quan, YAN Jian-Cheng. New Mechanism for Enhancing Ash Removal Efficiency and Reducing Tritium Inventory. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2007, 24(1): 155-157.
2007, Vol. 24 
