Recovery of vacuum condition and plasma performance after vessel vent in EAST tokamak

W Junru, H Jiansheng, Y Yaowei, C Bin - Vacuum, 2021 - Elsevier
The plasma recovery after vessel vent is studied in the EAST 2019 spring campaign. The
removal of condensate water is important for the fully superconducting tokamak. The low-Z …

Control of hydrogen content and fuel recycling for long pulse high performance plasma operation in EAST

YW Yu, JS Hu, GZ Zuo, Z Sun, L Wang, W Xu… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Control of fuel recycling and hydrogen content in the Experimental Advanced
Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) using various methods is studied for high-power long …

Conditioning of SST-1 tokamak vacuum vessel by baking and glow discharge cleaning

Z Khan, S George, P Semwal, KR Dhanani… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Steady-state Superconducting Tokamak (SST-1) vacuum vessel (VV) adopts
moderate baking at 110±10° C and the limiters baking at 250±10° C for∼ 200 h followed by …

Temperature distributions in a Tokamak vacuum vessel of fusion reactor after the loss-of-vacuum events occurred

K Takase, T Kunugi, M Shibata, Y Seki - Fusion engineering and Design, 1998 - Elsevier
If a loss-of-vacuum event (LOVA) occurred in a fusion reactor, buoyancy-driven exchange
flows would take place at breaches of a vacuum vessel (VV) due to the temperature …

Design and application of GDC on EAST Tokamak

Z Zhou, Y Song, J Hu - Fusion engineering and design, 2011 - Elsevier
On EAST Tokamak, DC glow discharge (GDC) is developed to clean the first wall of plasma.
It can effectively control the recycling of H, C, O impurities and improve the wall conditions …

Improvement of initial vacuum condition along 2008–2010 KSTAR campaign by vessel baking

KP Kim, SH Hong, NY Jung, ST Kim, HT Kim… - Fusion engineering and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) is upgraded for its KSTAR
3rd campaign for new target mission to produce the D-shaped plasma with a target plasma …

[HTML][HTML] Impurity Behavior in Plasma Recovery after a Vacuum Failure in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak

Z Zhao, L Zhang, R Zhou, Y Yang, W Zhang, Y Cheng… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
After a vacuum failure in a tokamak, plasma runaway or plasma disruptions frequently occur
during plasma recovery, causing difficulties in rebuilding a well-confined collisional plasma …

Exchange flow characteristics in a tokamak vacuum vessel of fusion reactor under the loss-of-vacuum conditions

K Takase, T Kunugi, Y Seki - Journal of fusion energy, 1997 - Springer
When a Tokamak vacuum vessel of fusion reactor is broken, buoyancy-driven exchange
flows will take place through breaches after the inside pressure of the vacuum vessel (VV) …

Progress and achievements of R&D activities for the ITER vacuum vessel

M Nakahira, H Takahashi, K Koizumi, M Onozuka… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Full Scale Sector Model Project, which was initiated in 1995 as one of the
Seven Large Projects for ITER R&D, has been continued with the joint effort of the ITER Joint …

Analyses of loss of vacuum accident (LOVA) in ITER

T Honda, HW Bartels, B Merrill, T Inabe, D Petti… - Fusion engineering and …, 2000 - Elsevier
A loss of vacuum accident (LOVA) is a unique event in fusion reactors. A reference event for
ITER was postulated which was a failure of a penetration line (0.02 m2 cross-section) into a …