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Status Status of the final design of the EC UPP launcher

Spaeh, Peter
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Aiello, Gaetano
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Chavan, Rene  
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November 1, 2018
Fusion Engineering And Design

Four EC H&CD (Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive) launchers will be installed into the upper ports #12, #13, #15 and #16 in ITER. Beside plasma heating their main purpose is to counteract plasma instabilities by injecting up to 20 MW of microwave power at a frequency of 170 GHz at dedicated positions into the plasma. The microwave power is generated in 24 Gyrotrons outside the Tokamak and transmitted into the dedicated ports by 8 waveguide lines per launcher. After passing a CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) diamond window and another section of circular waveguides, the microwaves are quasi-optically guided into the plasma by an adjusted set of mirrors. These mirrors and also the foremost segments of the waveguides are mounted into the Upper Port Plug, which is a massive steel structure capable to dissipate up to 800 kW heat and to withstand heavy mechanical loads induced mainly from plasma disruptions. This paper presents the most recent status of the design of the EC H&CD Upper Port Plug (UPP), featuring the construction of the supporting structure and the BSM (Blanket Shield Module) with its plasma facing First Wall, the PHTS (Primary Heat Transfer System) water cooling layout, the shielding components engineering, the microwave system integration and comprehensive manufacturing strategies. Also correlated computational analyses to prove the final design of the launchers structural system are given.

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DOI
10.1016/j.fusengdes.2018.04.068
Web of Science ID

WOS:000452575300042

Author(s)
Spaeh, Peter
Aiello, Gaetano
Chavan, Rene  
Gagliardi, Mario
Grossetti, Giovanni
Heemskerk, Cock
Landis, Jean-Daniel  
Meier, Andreas
Pacheco, Jose
Ronden, Dennis
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Date Issued

2018-11-01

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA

Published in
Fusion Engineering And Design
Volume

136

Start page

1058

End page

1062

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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ecrh

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port plug

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plasma heating

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pfc

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phts

Note

13th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT), Kyoto, JAPAN, Sep 25-29, 2017

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