Design and R&D for the C-MOD outer divertor upgrade

Soren Harrison; Rui Vieira; Bruce Lipschultz; Robert Ellis; Dan Karnes; Peter Titus; Lihua Zhou; Han Zhang; William Beck

Design and R&D for the C-MOD outer divertor upgrade

Soren Harrison, Rui Vieira, Bruce Lipschultz, Robert Ellis, Dan Karnes, Peter Titus, Lihua Zhou, Han Zhang, William Beck

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Operational requirements and research considerations make a high-temperature, toroidally continuous outer divertor an important upgrade to the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. Leading edge melting of tiles, non-uniform heat loads, large electromagnetic forces, and localized impurity sources limit the performance of bulk plasmas. These issues can be addressed by the installation of a well-aligned, toroidally continuous outer divertor. Additionally, future long pulse operation will cause the temperature of the outer divertor to reach bulk temperatures as high as 500 - 600 ^°C. This future operational requirement combined with the strong temperature dependence of plasma surface interactions (especially fuel retention), makes a controllable, high-temperature outer divertor desirable and necessary. The motivation, criteria, design, and R&D for the upgrade are discussed below.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	277-281
Journal	Fusion science and technology
Volume	64
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2013

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