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Present design of the Steering Mirror Assembly (SMA) for ITER ECHUL

Xydou, A.
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Chavan, R.  
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Goodman, T. P.  
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March 20, 2023
Fusion Engineering And Design

In the ITER Tokamak, four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) are needed to control plasma instabilities at the rational surfaces, most importantly the q = 3/2 and q = 2/1 neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs). Each ECHUL is equipped with a set of fixed mirrors (M1, M2 and M3) and a front steering mirror set (M4). The millimetre waves are reflected from these mirrors. EC beams are grouped in two rows of four beams each. There are two M4 mirrors, called Upper and Lower Steering Mirror Assemblies, that rotate independently to target the locations of the instabilities in real time. The previous design of M4 showed no compliance of the non-actively cooled components like bellows and springs after including the thermal load of the mm-wave stray radiation and direct plasma radiation. This paper reports the main design changes with the objective to reduce the thermal loads on the non actively cooled components. The Upper Steering Mirror Assembly (USMA) is presented here as an enveloping case. The components structural integrity enforcing the ITER Structural Design Code for the In-Vessel Components (SDC-IC) is assessed by finite elements analyses.

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review article
DOI
10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113450
Web of Science ID

WOS:000994416600001

Author(s)
Xydou, A.
Chavan, R.  
Goodman, T. P.  
Torres, S. Julia
Borderas, C. Marraco
Sanchez, A. Mas
Quiroz, H. Torreblanca
Date Issued

2023-03-20

Published in
Fusion Engineering And Design
Volume

193

Article Number

113450

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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iter upper launcher

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steering mirror assembly (sma)

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thermal hydraulic simulations

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structural integrity assessment

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m4

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