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(Step 1: Identifying critical gaps)(Step 2: Options to fill the critical gaps…initiated)
(Step 3: Success…not yet)
Clement P.C. WongGeneral Atomics
Fusion Nuclear Science and Technology Annual MeetingAugust 2, 2010 Rice Conference Room, UCLA
Critical Gaps between Tokamak Physics and Nuclear Science
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The beautiful picture of fusion developmentInexhaustible clean energy for the world
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FusionPowerReactor
DEMO
DIII-D, CMODNSTX, JET, EASTJT-60, KSTAR
FNSF
The beautiful picture of fusion development:Inexhaustible clean energy from MFE fusion power reactor
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FusionPowerReactor
DEMO
DIII-D, CMODNSTX, JET, EASTJT-60, KSTAR ITER
FNSFIFMIF
For MFE we will need ITER and FNSF+IFMIF
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~0 dpaDD neutrons
We can see the obvious critical issue from dpa effects
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We need to provide technical connections between major devices
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ITER has helped to focus world fusion resourcesIt has also identified critical issues when extended to DEMO
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ReNeW Workshop was the First Step for Systems Interface activities
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18 Thrusts were Identified
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5 Critical areas were selected
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• First wall heat flux and design
• Plasma surface material
Critical areas that will have major impacts to the feasibility of fusion power
Fast pace review on the first 3 areas
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Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• First wall heat flux and design
• Plasma surface material
Critical areas that will have major impacts to the feasibility of fusion power
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Tritium Breeding Blankets must be developed in the near term to solve the serious issue of external tritium supply
• A Successful ITER will exhaust most of the world supply of tritium, but 5-10 kg will be needed to start DEMO
• Any future long pulse burning plasma device (including ITER Extended Phase) will need tritium breeding technology
• The availability and cost of external tritium supply is a serious issue for FNSF development
• Engineering development and reliability growth stages must be done in a small fusion power device; only fusion break-in stage can be done in ITER
Tritium Consumption in Fusion is HUGE! Unprecedented!
55.8 kg per 1000 MW fusion power per year
Production & Cost:
CANDU Reactors: 27 kg from over 40 years, $30M/kg (current)
Fission reactors: 2–3 kg/year/reactor,
$84M-$130M/kg (per DOE Inspector General*)
*www.ig.energy.gov/documents/CalendarYear2003/ig-0632.pdf
We cannot wait very long for blanket developmentM. Abdou, UCLA, 2007
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Impact of T burn-up fraction in plasma on start-up T inventory for new power plant
L. El-Guebaly, UW
Implications of tritium burn-up fraction for ITER ~ 0.3%
A power reactor consumes ~ 0.5 kg per day, and if ttp is ~ 24 hours like TSTA, then the tritium inventory in the fuel storage will be > 160 kg!! Totally unacceptable. If ttp is reduced
to 4 hours, it will be ~ 27 kg. Still too high!!
A power reactor with the same as ITER would be unacceptable!
ITER is designed with a burn-up fraction of 0.3%Low tritium burn-up fraction will need large tritium startup inventoryThe key is to optimize burn-up fraction and tritium processing, ttp
M. Abdou, UCLA, 2007
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Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• First wall heat flux and design
• Plasma surface material
Critical areas that will have major impacts to the feasibility of fusion power
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Most divertors are designed to a peak heat flux of 10 MW/m2
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M. Kotschenreuther, ARIES Workshop, San Diego, CA, May 20-21 2010
Peak heat flux for DEMO is very uncertainNew divertor configurations should be considered
D. Ryutov, ARIES Workshop, San Diego, CA, May 20-21 2010
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Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• First wall heat flux and design
• Plasma surface material
Critical areas that will have major impacts to the feasibility of fusion power
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However even with prefect disruption mitigation, a power reactor will need to be designed to withstand a few unforeseeable events
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First wall heat flux and design
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• First wall heat flux and design
• Plasma surface material
Critical areas that will have major impacts to the feasibility of fusion power
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ReNeW PFC panel generated unexpected surprises
• ITER First wall panels are designed to
1 MW/m2 and 5 MW/m2 heat flux
while steady state radiation is only 0.5 MW/m2
• Why???
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R. Nygren SNL, 2010
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R. Nygren SNL, 2010
Correct question: Can physicists manage without such a requirements ?
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Main chamber ELM loads• Clearly present in higher
triangularity configurations
DIII-D
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See J. G. Watkins, Poster P2-66, Tuesday68193, 57 s
JET
R. A. Pitts et al., APS 2007
R.A. Pitts, 19 PSI conference May 2010, San Diego
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ITER Thermal Load Specifications: resumé
Start-up:q|| ~ 25 MWm-2, lq|| ~ 5.0 cmSeveral seconds
Confinement transientsq|| ~ 250 MWm-2, ~2-3 secs
Start-up and rampdown:q|| ~ 40 MWm-2, lq|| > 1.2 cmSeveral seconds
VDE (up):q|| ~ 70-270 MJm-2, lq|| > 3.0 cmt = 1.5-3.0 ms
VDE (down):q|| ~ 90-300 MJm-2, lq|| > 3.0 cm
Steady state:q|| ~ 8 MWm-2, lq|| > 4.0 cmq|| ~ 24 MWm-2, lq|| > 2.5 cm (ELMs)
Disruptionsq|| ~ 45-120 MJm-2, lq|| > 20 cm
t = 3.0-6.0 ms
Radiation:SS: 0.5 MWm-2
(photon+CX)
DisruptionsTQ: ~0.5 MJm-2
t ~ 1 ms (mitigated)CQ: ~0.9 MJm-2
t ~ 10 ms
R.A. Pitts, 19 PSI conference May 2010, San Diego
Very high parallel heat fluxes
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ELMs Mitigation
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Extension to FNSF
• How can we accommodate necessary RMP coils while satisfying TBR, thermal performance and components lifetime requirements?
Note:
• Other ELMs control methods are being investigated, e.g. Low field side (LFS) pellet injection
• High performance ELMs free plasma (e.g. QH mode) may be the right approach but open issues remain
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Plasma surface material
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
• First wall heat flux and design
• Plasma surface material
Critical areas that will have major impacts to the feasibility of fusion power
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Surface Material is a Key Item for Fusion Development
Surface material is critically important to next generation tokamak devices:
• Plasma performance is affected by transport of impurities
• Surface heat removal, tritium co-deposition and inventory will have impacts on material selection for devices beyond ITER
• Radiation effects from neutrons and edge alphas, material design limits and component lifetimes will have to be taken into consideration
C and Be will not be suitable for the next generation devices and DEMO
due to surface erosion and radiation damage. Presently W is the
preferred choice, but feasibility issues have been identified
DIII-D JET-ILWC-Mod AUG EAST ITER FNSF DEMO
Surface material options
(High neutron and edge alpha fluence)
C Mo W Be/W/C C/W Be/W/C ? ?
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Plasma Surface Materials and Effects from Helium
1. Transmuted helium*
2. He ions, generated from DT reaction
* Radiation impacts from high energy neutrons in addition to dpa effects
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Low energy He+ irradiation in plasma simulator NAGDIS
H bubble and hole formation on W surface @ > 10 eV
D. Nishijima, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329 (2007) 1029-1033
Damages to W First Wall have also been Projected from He+
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When exposed to He at high temperature, W
surface showed growth of W nano-structure from the bottom; the thickness increases with plasma exposure time
Baldwin and Doerner, Nuclear Fusion 48 (2008) 1-5
Significant Issues Projected for W-surface Operation
Independent of Alloy Development
ITER disruption loading:
10-30 MJ/m2 for 0.1 to 3 ms
Irreversible surface material damage
M. Rödig, Int. HHFC workshop, UCSD Dec. 2009
We cannot eliminate un-predicted
disruptions even if disruption detection
and mitigation work perfectly
W fuzz most likely will not be observed in Tokamaks, but it can still have major impacts as a form of surface erosion
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Plasma Facing Material Design and Selection
Requirements for Next Generation Devices
1. Withstand damage from DT generated He
2. Withstand transient events like ELMs and disruptions
Additional critical requirements:
Physics performance:
3. Material suitable for high performance plasma operation
4. Suitable for edge radiation to reduce maximum heat flux at the divertor
5. Low physical and chemical erosion rate
Engineering performance:
6. Transmit high heat flux for high thermal efficiency conversion
7. Minimum tritium inventory
8. Minimum negative effect to tritium breeding performance
9. Low activation materials
10. Replenish damaged surface material suitable for steady stateoperation and long lifetime
11. Match materials temperature design requirements
12. Withstand high neutron fluence at high temperature
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A Possible Si filled W-surface concept could Satisfy most
Requirements
The concept: Si-filled W-surface (#3,#4,#9)
• Thin Si surface could protect the W surface
from He damage (#1)
• Exposed W will have a low erosion rate (#5)
• ~2mm thick W with indents could transmit high heat flux,
thus retaining high effective kth of W layer, necessary for
DEMO (#6,#8,#11)
• Enough Si is provided to withstand ELMs and a few disruptions
(modeling showed vaporized Si ~10 μm/disruption including vapor
shielding effect) “W-Tmelt@ 3410°C, Si-Tmelt@1412°C, Si-Tboil@ 2480°C” (#2)
• Should be able to control tritium inventory at temperature ~1000 °C (#7)
• Suitable real time siliconization could be used to replenish Si when and
where needed (#10)
(Satisfying requirements #12 TBD)
W-buttons
W-buttons
filled with Si
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Si filled W-buttons W-buttons with
1 mm dia. indentsLoaded DiMES sample
2 Si-W, 3 graphite, 2 W buttons
Initial Results of Transient Tolerant Si-filled W-buttons
Sample exposed
To 4 LSN dischargesAfter one additional disruption,
but not fully thermally loaded
Exposed in
DIII-D lower divertor
Shot 14261-14264Shot 142706
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Si-W Buttons Exposure Observations
• As expected Si on the W button surface got removed during normal
discharges easily via sputtering or vaporization
• Favorable result shows much of the Si is retained in the indents even
under relatively high heat and particle flux
• Retained Si could demonstrate the vapor shielding effect to protect
the W-button surface from melting
• Initial results show expected results in the performance of Si-filled W-
surface to fulfill its function, much more development and testing will
be needed
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Conclusions
From ITER to FNSF critical gaps have been identified between Tokamak Physics and Nuclear Science
and they can only be resolved with close interactions between physics, material, technology and design communities
Examples are:
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons• First wall heat flux and design• Plasma surface material
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Conclusions-Solutions
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
Higher T burnup fraction >>0.3% is needed, furthermore a net tritium producing device like FNSF is needed before the tritium supply runs out
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
New divertor configuration and with radiation to maintain acceptable peak heat flux is needed for a robust FNSF design with design margin
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
Different schemes of radiation are needed to mitigate damaging peak power flux impacts to surface material
• First wall heat flux and design
Radiation to spread the peak heat flux and ELM-free operation, like QH mode are needed
• Plasma surface material
Si-filled W-surface, which uses radiation to mitigate surface material damage is a possible transient tolerance approach and should be developed
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Conclusions-Radiation is the key
We will need FNSF soon, and radiation is the key to control the damaging transient events. Si-filled W-surface design is proposed as a possible PFM for steady state operation of FNSF and should be organized for more systematic studies.
• Tritium supply, burnup fraction, tritium processing and TBR
Higher T burnup fraction >>0.3% is needed, furthermore a net tritium producing device like FNSF is needed before the tritium supply runs out
• Divertor configuration and peak heat flux reduction
New divertor configuration and with radiation to maintain acceptable peak heat flux is needed for a robust FNSF design with design margin
• Transient events: disruptions, ELMs and runaway electrons
Different schemes of radiation are needed to mitigate damaging peak power flux impacts to surface material
• First wall heat flux and design
Radiation to spread the peak heat flux and ELM-free operation, like QH mode are needed
• Plasma surface material
Si-filled W-surface, which uses radiation to mitigate surface material damage is a possible transient tolerance approach and should be developed